{"id":765923,"date":"2022-11-15T17:54:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=765923"},"modified":"2023-01-06T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:11:09","slug":"erik-spoelstra-bam-adebayo-can-morph-into-many-different-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/erik-spoelstra-bam-adebayo-can-morph-into-many-different-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Spoelstra: Bam Adebayo &#8216;Can Morph into Many Different Roles&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=miami+heat\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=miami+heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a> seem to be back on track to their winning habits after defeating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=phoenix+suns\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=phoenix+suns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t the prettiest of victories to their now three-game win streak, as the Suns held a 13 point-advantage at one point, but the dominance of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=bam+adebayo\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=bam+adebayo\" target=\"_blank\">Bam Adebayo<\/a> showed up at the perfect time in the fourth quarter, scoring 15 of his 30 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His two-way play seems to be pushing the team in the right direction, as his screens and playmaking are getting <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=caleb+martin\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=caleb+martin\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Martin<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=kyle+lowry\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=kyle+lowry\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Lowry<\/a> in much needed rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the game, Heat head coach <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=erik+spoelstra\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=erik+spoelstra\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Spoelstra<\/a> spoke on the value Adebayo provides on both sides of the ball and how his responsibilities can benefit the rest of the team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s such a winner. He\u2019s an absolute winner,&#8221; said Spoelstra. &#8220;He can morph into so many different roles for us where he makes it look so much easier to the average fan \u2013 everybody just wants him to score 40.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bam is on another level, 30 piece and a dominant 4th quarter \ud83d\udca5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vfhoMdJH4g\">pic.twitter.com\/vfhoMdJH4g<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiHEAT\/status\/1592536148412358657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Adebayo had been off to a slow start for the first seven games of the season, resulting in the Heat winning just two games in October. Now, winners of five of their seven games in November, Adebayo has jumped his averages to 20.7 points per game, 10.3 rebounds, and 40 assists per game on <meta charset=\"utf-8\">52.7 percent shooting from the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Heat is doing better once Adebayo takes over a game, but as co-star <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=erik+spoelstra\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=erik+spoelstra\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Butler<\/a> mentioned last week, Miami&#8217;s defense is &#8220;not where it needs to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a 111.8 defensive rating, the Heat are 17th in the League in that category, a major drop from their fourth-best rating last season. However, the team is third in the League in points allowed in the paint (44.7), courtesy of Adebayo&#8217;s anchoring down inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Understanding how to read defenses and what\u2019s necessary for this team,&#8221; said Spoelstra on Adebayo. &#8220;when to be assertive, when to create for others, when to set screens for guys, look, I\u2019ve never coached really somebody where there\u2019s been so many different responsibilities,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spoelstra has taken leadership over legends like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=lebron+james\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=lebron+james\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=dwyane+wade\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=dwyane+wade\" target=\"_blank\">Dwyane Wade<\/a>, and of course, Butler, the current face of the team. Encouraging words like the one Spoelstra said on Adebayo should factor into how confident the big man plays the rest of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat seem to be back on track to their winning habits after defeating the Phoenix Suns Monday night. It wasn&#8217;t the prettiest of victories to their now three-game win streak, as the Suns held a 13 point-advantage at one point, but the dominance of Bam Adebayo showed up at the perfect time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":765937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62708,18,63826,62493],"tags":[10536,64321,240,1347,6797,13004,103],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-765923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miami-heat","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-defense","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-erik-spoelstra","tag-jimmy-butler","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770320,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765923\/revisions\/770320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765923"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=765923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}