“The heat will find you and cultivate you.” In April, 2022, Keer Kuzma sighed on Twitter. LeBlanc James forwarded and echoed, “This is the truth! The training of players there is really too strong!!”
Kuzma and Lao Zhan spoke the hearts of countless people. In the 2023 playoffs, the heat-driven draft miracle continued.
On May 22, Beijing time, the Heat won the Celtics 128-102 in the third game of the Eastern finals, leading the 3-0 big score. Vincent, Strous, Duncan Robinson, and coreb Martin got 79 points in total, and yutsevin, who counted the garbage time on the stage, got 2 points, five people scored a total of 81 points for the hot six-place talent show.
The score of the hot spot draft set a new playoff league record since 1966. the previous record holder was also hot. In the second game of the Eastern semi-final, the hot fire draft had a total of 74 points.
In recent years, the ability of hot fire to dig and cultivate talent shows can be called the phenomenon level. Doug Rivers is “angry” with emotion that “I really don’t know where hot fire dug out so many talent shows”. In this year’s Eastern finals, the heat has not only impressed people by digging and training, but also launched upgrade services for different players, which made them step into the gate of the finals with one foot.
The heat is willing to devote a lot of energy and resources to the drop talent show. They want to turn Miami into the Paradise of the drop talent show and become the dreamers of those little people.
In the spring of 2018, Chet kamole, the director of the heat scout department, gave a trial training to a group of players before the draft. In that year, the Heat had no picks available. In a separate trial in Los Angeles, camole found a player whose name rarely appeared on the analog draft list. He was Duncan Robinson.
In the 2017-18 season, Robinson scored 9.2 points in the last year of the University of Michigan. His name was not found on the simulated draft list, but camole, relying on more than 20 years of Scout experience, as long as Robinson is given a specific role, he will be the main force of the heat in the next few years.
After that, things were familiar: Robinson joined the Heat summer league team after losing the election, and then he signed a two-way contract with the Heat, playing for the SU falls Sky Force team, a subordinate team of the Heat G League in the early stage, after that, he officially entered the Heat rotation lineup and hit the first one step by step. He was called an elite shooter and won the biggest contract in the history of the downdraft for 5 years and 90 million dollars.
Robinson’s story is very common in the heat. The Miracle of the hot draft begins with the first step of “digging”, and the scout department can find those have the discerning eye unprocessed Jade. The second step is to “cultivate”, give them a chance and make a training plan according to each person’s characteristics. The third step ushered in a bumper harvest and watched them succeed.
In the past, Kendrick Nunn, now Strous, Vincent and so on were all dug out by carmole and assistant general manager Adam Simon watching a lot of summer league matches and development league matches, the price they pay for signing these players is not big, and they often start with two-way contracts and non-guaranteed contracts. However, in training these players, the energy and resources they devote, looking at the alliance, only the Raptors may be comparable to the heat.
The two senior executives dug out the draft and handed it over to the team player training department. They made targeted training plans according to the characteristics of each player. Strous, Vincent and Martin are all training towards 3D players. Utterseven has been developing towards an organized blue collar center last season. Unfortunately, it has not been knocked down by injuries games played this season.
“The resources we give to the talent show are no different from those for the top talent show. You have to work hard first. We can inject confidence into you. We also believe in the leadership of the team at all levels.” Hasham, who was also born in the talent show, said that he also played an important role in the process of training the talent show in the heat. Spolestra once praised Hasham’s role as an example in it.
The heat will create a family atmosphere for all the drop talent shows. Hasham thinks they can spur these players to train hard. One of the main reasons is that they make these players feel the feeling of home. All players know, everything the heat does is based on the interests of the players. As long as they play here for one day, the heat is willing to devote resources to them so that they can have a successful career in the future, even if they go to other teams in the future.
The attitude of heat makes all the talent shows moving. Strous said: “They are willing to practice with you and watch you become an excellent player. When you devote yourself to this team culture, your efforts will be rewarded. This is the biggest difference between the heat and other teams. They really care about you and are willing to cultivate you.”
This is another form of heat team culture, and it is also their goal and pursuit. Spoolstra explained: “Digging the drop draft is one of the manifestations of our team’s philosophy. We have been digging the drop draft for many years and we know what kind of players we want. Not every player is suitable for the Heat, but we like to be their Dreamers to help them realize their dreams.”
However, after all, the drop draft is a drop draft, and these players who are generally older when entering NBA always have limits. In the past two years, Robinson’s weakness as a pure shooter has been exposed, and all kinds of junk contracts always have his name on the list. In the Eastern final last year, the Celtics used Lowell to play Martin, which directly threatened Martin, who was still the main rotating member in the regular season. The effect on the scene was extremely poor.
The heat didn’t give up on them, and they didn’t give up on themselves. When Robinson got 15 points in the second game of the Eastern finals by using the air cut and holding the ball, and then got 22 points and 4 assists by using the air cut and sudden points in the third game. When Martin scored 25 points against Lowe again in Game 2, and then scored 18 points and 4 assists in Game 3, spoolstra revealed the secret of Robinson and Martin’s progress.
The success of the hot fire talent show has a common feature. They are given a specific role and can succeed at a stage. But what if their specific play is targeted? The response of the heat was to upgrade the players twice to help them break through the limit.
In the past two years, Robinson, who had previously played the ball-free shooter, had been polishing the back cover and attacking rim. He began to hold the ball more and practice hard to break through. Two years of reserves, in exchange for Robinson’s first round of the playoffs against the Bucks and the Eastern final against the Celtics again broke out.
After his defeat last year, Martin began to plan to break away from the category of 3D players. He wanted to be a more comprehensive player. His key training content was his ability to hold the ball, organize and invest. He prepared for a whole year. When he fought with the Celtics again as he wished, he handed over the perfect answer sheet with an average of 19.3 points in the first three sessions, 63.2 percent in field goal percentage and 47.6 percent in the three-point hit rate.
Inside the heat, they hated the saying of “falling draft” very much. They used to call it “No. 61 show”, and the falling draft in their eyes was no different from other players.
Heat always laments “lucky” when it comes to digging out so many drop talent shows, but looking back carefully, all this just comes from the input and patience of heat. It sounds simple, but it is very rare. In the era of more and more pursuit of rapid success, there are not many teams like the heat.