New veteran Heat forwards Andre Iguodala and Jae Crowder continue to settle into their new environs, as David Furones of the South Florida Sun Sentinel notes. Iguodala has enjoyed the Heat’s team practice methodology.
“It’s really game-ready type practices,” Iguodala said of working out with the Heat. “I think it’s really going to show in the games once I really get acclimated with everything… It’s really a winning environment and you can see it right away.”
Crowder, too, appreciates the tenor of the Heat’s conduct. “Just the championship mindset,” Crowder relayed about what impressed him during his initial time in Miami. “You always think about the guys playing for it all and I think, being on the outside looking in, that’s what I see.”
There’s more out of the Southeast Division:
- All-Star Hawks point guard Trae Young has practically doubled his free-throw output from his rookie season, as Sarah K. Spencer of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution relays. Young concedes that this is in due in part to growing respect from league referees now that he is no longer a rookie. But it can also be attributed to conscious adjustments in approach from Young. He is now second in the NBA in made free throws per game at 8.0, behind just James Harden‘s 10.5 made free throws per night.
- Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal has been struggling with inefficient long-rage shooting this season, per the Washington Post’s Candace Buckner. During the worst three-point shooting season of his career to date, Beal has converted fewer than 20% of his long-range tries in 10 games this season. He is connecting on just 31.6% of his three-point attempts overall.
- Although the Hornets will have $28MM available in salary cap room this summer, general manager Mitch Kupchak intends to spread that money around across a few young free agent candidates, instead of pursuing a single star, per The Charlotte Observer’s Rick Bonnell. “I don’t anticipate us being one of those teams that is in the running for those big free agents,” Kupchak said. The team may trade for a young player or sign a role player still in his prime, like Nets shooting ace Joe Harris.
“Crowder, too, appreciates”? I think you mean “Crowder also appreciates”
well done sir… make sure to pat yourself on the back if you haven’t already done so. Also treat yourself to a warm glass of milk
Well done, sir.
I stand corrected lol
Actually, both work, I think they meant what the professional writer might have meant what they wrote
Bonnell’s next article in the Hornet’s link, written two days later, is about how they need to find a star. Without getting a big fish in free agancy, I guess the FO will use the “be the smartest guy in the room” method in the draft. Too bad they don’t employ x%sure!
HEAT Culture is a thing, and those guys are absolutely Miami Heat players, and always were. Big Iguodala fan since he was drafted, and loved Jae Crowder at the draft combine, and ever since
Trae Young getting a lot of the same phantom calls as Harden, although his improvement from being drafted has been significant, and should be acknowledged, even though the rules also are part of that.