Bam Adebayo, Miami details new ‘fun’ offense against Grizzlies

Despite that The Miami Heat are dealing with the aftermath of Terry Rozier’s arrestteam was highly motivated after defeating the Memphis Grizzlies 146-114 on Friday night. Led by Heat star Bam Adebayo does his best Stephen Curry impression from three-point range, the team’s new fast-paced style of play was on full display with players responding to their performance.

Adebayo started an explosive offense, scoring 18 of the team’s first 25 points, making four 3-pointers in the process, but the entire team took off, playing at a much faster pace than before. This was an area of ​​focus coming into last season, which marked another year of Miami ranking near the bottom of the NBA’s pace teams.

The team would score the third-most points in franchise history, including the Heat’s all-time scoring half with 86. Adebayo would describe how “fun” the offense is at the current time, according to The Miami Herald.

“Playing at this pace, you like to see everybody having fun together, everybody touching the ball,” Adebayo said after scoring 24 points. “You can’t really scout plays for us. No plays. The whole first half (Friday against the Grizzlies), I don’t think Spo made a play. We’re trying to keep that going all season.”

“It’s fun when we play like this” continued Adebayo. “It’s fun when we can go up and down, we can run that pace. Obviously, misses or shots dictate that, but our thing is just to continue to play this style of basketball where there’s no holding back. We’re swinging, we’re cutting.”

Bam said he wants to play fast all season:

“It’s fun when we play like this, it’s fun when you get up and down … our thing is to continue to play this style of basketball where there are no holes … that’s trying to be our identity.”

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As it is The Heat led by nearly 40 points over the Grizzlies at halftime on friday night, the offense in two games was a far cry from what it has been for the last five seasons, with the team ranked in the bottom 10 in offensive rating. This was even on display in Miami’s close loss to the Orlando Magic in the opener, where he was one of the many players to step up from the new offensive look of Jaime Jaquez Jr., now in his third season.

Coming off the bench, Jaquez is back to his strengths, being a physical downhill force who can either make a tough shot or be a playmaker with an edge. He scored 17 points on 8-of-12 shooting from the field with 10 rebounds and six assists, speaking to a new-look offense.

“I will say it’s a lot of fun,” Jaquez said. “It’s something we’ve been working on for a while. Something we’ve really bought into, I think, as a team. And you just see all that buy-in come to life on the floor. I think we deserve a win like this.”

While the two-game sample size isn’t that large, Miami ran at a pace of 112.3 possessions per 48 minutes, which is the fastest in the league and also ranks third in the NBA with 24 fast break points. While players like to always say before the season that they want the team to play fast, the Heat are backing up that talk so far with their next game on Sunday against the New York Knicks.