After the Miami Heat’s two-point win over the Oklahoma City Thunder earlier this month, Norman Powell pointed to an anonymous stat that the team was attempting to emulate as a mean for success.
“We have a goal in mind,” Powell said. “[Head coach Erik Spoelstra] gave us a stat from last year, and we want to reach that. … [What that stat is) is between us. That’s internal, something that we want to reach for.”
While we may never know what the exact stat is that Powell’s hinting toward, ever since that specific game, the Miami Heat have absolutely dominated in one key phase: The offensive glass.
How Heat have flipped script in this key phase:
In their win over the reigning champions, the Miami Heat hauled down 21 offensive rebounds, a season-high at the time. They didn’t shoot the bal well, knocking down just 36.9 percent of their attempts. But Miami generated 34 more attempts than OKC.
That marked the biggest FGA discrepancy by any team in any single game this year, with a plus-16 advantage on the offensive glass and a plus-five advantage on the glass entirely.
Miami’s emphasis on obtaining extra bites maintained itself after, albeit over just six games. The Heat have corralled at least 14 offensive rebounds in four of their last five games, with at least 18 in three of them. For perspective, over Miami’s first 41 games, it had just 18 offensive rebounds once.
Its 36.2 offensive rebound rate since Jan. 17 is the second-best mark in the NBA, trailing only the Charlotte Hornets’ 37.6 percent mark. They also lead the NBA in second-chance points per 100 possessions and (21.4).
Generally under Spoelstra, Miami has prioritized transition defense over offensive rebounding. You can effectively do both, in theory, but the Heat haven’t oftentimes had three jerseys around the rim in the off-chance another team does leak out.
In four of its previous five seasons, the Heat were No. 19 or worse leaguewide in offensive rebound rate. They’ve long been an excellent defensive rebound team, placing as a top-7 unit in five of the last six and six of the last eight seasons.
Regardless of the team’s pace, it appears Miami is attempting to win the possession battle by any means necessary. Especially against formidable defenses (such as OKC), Miami’s offense has oftentimes struggled to generate offense in the halfcourt.
Well, trying to acquire as many opportunities as you can can effectively neutralize those deficiencies.
Once again, we may never know the exact stat that Powell is hinting at. But there’s keen reason to believe it has something to do with offensive rebounding.
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who gets greek .kats injured alot bam isnt
And this…
He can thank me later
if niko starts playing consistently good which is highly unlikely rc gets the credit?
Jovic better start playing well or we’re taking it out of Riley’s pay.
Same with Rozier’s salary. When is Riley going to raise hell publicly about how Silver/NBA and Charlotte conspired to withhold relevant negative information to Miami prior to the Rozier trade,
Agree the heat as a whole franchise are too nice about the Rozier situation whole believe if it was Kerr or pop few years back would raise hell and something would happen
Hey, if I take the grief, I sure as hell should get the credit if things get better
When I did the tour Sunday, I wanted to take some pictures that my buddy hfl would cherish.
Salt on the wound. Thats just nasty, RC.
a trophy next to jovics name u must have been at disney world in the fantasy world section
If Jovic was playing up to his potential (at least what Jaquez is doing) Heat would be a far better team. He needs to start pulling his weight before his new contract kicks in.
in europe he would be bros to quick and strong for slovic
It’s a picture of the trophy. They have them all over the place
Where the hell is everybody…on vacation.
I’m just sitting here waiting for Riley to do something…anything. The closer it gets to the deadline, the more dramatic it will be. Powell, Wiggins, Herro? Who tf knows?
The same. I keep checking for rumors or news a few times a day
rumor is pat and bf cruising into stockholm and then serbia looking for next pelle and spobotovic
thank jacko alot for off rebounds he really hits the boards.hes a completely diff player than dav.dav could use jackos size and jacko could use davs quickness.notsure who is better for us but think we need to trade for better pg
Tbh he should come off the bench behind Davion but should play more minutes than Davion. This is from someone who scuffed and the pick
that position needs an upgrade
His turnovers are way down. 6 total in last 7 games. Less than 1 per game. None in 5 of last 7 games. He’s shooting 43.8% 3-pt. for the season. Dude is only 19. He should be hitting his stride long before his rookie contract expires.
speed is his cryptonite sun he gets blown by alot.sort of reminds me of u know who
Much better defender. He’s still learning.. Other one been at it 7 years. Jus sayin.
Definitely better defender , he’s not Poa defender yet, but can guard 1 – 3, and has good size. Additionally his defensive rating is the same as vj Edgecombe, which means he has good potential.
Absolutely. He is a decent defender. Maybe will never be a great defender, but doesn’t need to be. He is aggressive the same way Pelle and Jaquez are. Duncan, Herro, and Jovic are all more passive.
dunc has no instincts no athleticism very grabby.ty is to weak no instincts passive.niko not that bad defensivley for a guy 610 but like his whole game doesnt do anything really good
passive = “softies”/complaisant/not physically assertive/ not fully engaged
Vagi said he reminds him of Goran, so I would be happy if turns out like that.
Tell heat. He already wrote him off like he had Jaquez and Larsson.
We have a winner of the Grand Prize!! ⬆️⬆️
hfl prefers his ballers with hops.theyre more entertaining so besides eric and rcs posts for 3 hours id have me some skywalkers to be entertained also.now if only the man from dog bone would hang hfls night would be made.i think sun is to bz working on his trade machine rc doesnt have time to join our party
after jjjs previous year only one who didnt was rc he was turrible last year..whod thunk jjj would be this good not even rc .6moty pelle i said he reminded me of dan majerle crutty caught on to that after yours truly didnt think stockholm was a hot bed for ballers.maybe theres a kareem erickson or wilt lindholm lurking in the playgrounds of stockholm
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t make assumptions before you have all the facts. Don’t allow your personal bias or prejudice to cloud your vision. I try to live by those words.
i know your cool based on your appearance
Thanks heat. I’m actually a “psycho killer” …Qu’est-ce que c’est.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTHebFPem6w&list=RDCTHebFPem6w&start_radio=1
True. I believed he could bounce back and I give youth the benefit of the doubt, but he exceeded all expectations.
Even if I tell him, he will like him one game ,and hate him the next.
He’s that way with everyone. Even me and I’m one of his bff here, lol
Lmaooo
that island bro is once clutch baller my island friend.edge is the glue on that team gonna be a good one he is already.jacko been meh not impressed yet i have been with the edge.ill let u know when hfl certifies jacko stay tuned.ive certified jjj pelle and maybe with rcs one on one training with spobotovic a niko certtification forthcoming?