Miami Heat: Trading Tyler Herro doesn’t make sense right now

By Zamir Bueno | Jun 27, 2021

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How the Miami Heat misused Victor Oladipo

Iguodala isn’t the only player Miami has failed to put in a position to succeed. The Heat acquired Victor Oladipo on March 25th of 2021. Before coming to the team, Oladipo excelled as a pick and roll ball handler, shooting 41.5 percent from the field on 5.6 attempts per game. The field goal percentage contributed to him scoring 5.9 points per game: 32.1 percent of his scoring output.

Oladipo saw a 45.7 percent reduction in his pick and roll possessions upon joining the team, going from 7 to 3.8 per game. Oladipo replaced some of those pick and roll possessions by spending more time as a floor spacer as he took 39.5 percent of his shots from behind the arc, averaging 4.3 per game.

93 percent of those attempts were catch and shoots, as he averaged 4 per game. Sadly, Victor Oladipo’s biggest weakness, before joining the team, was three-point shooting. He made 36.1 percent of his catch and shoots on 2.9 attempts per game.

Catch and shoots were responsible for 63 percent of his attempts as he shot 34.7 percent from behind the arc on 4.6 attempts per game. Oladipo saw a severe decline in his shooting when he joined the team as he only made 25 percent of his catch and shoots. The catch and shoots were the catalysts for him shooting 23.5 percent from behind the arc in four games.

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