Notes from the Heat’s training camp and a hopeful future for the 2023-24 season. Jovic’s potential in his role, DRob overcoming the hump, and a surprising sharpshooter, Cole Swider.
Notes from the Heat’s training camp and a hopeful future for the 2023-24 season. Jovic’s potential in his role, DRob overcoming the hump, and a surprising sharpshooter, Cole Swider.
“This has been a relatively quiet training camp, as far as training camps go. There are some questions about the rotation and plenty of young players around trying to earn their spot in the league, but most of it falls into the category of standard fare. Among those young players, however, one who seems to have popped a bit is Cole Swider, the 6-foot-9 shooter out of Villanova and Syracuse who spent last with the Los Angeles Lakers and their G-League affiliate – where he shot 43.6 percent from three in 27 games. He’s been shooting the ball well enough at least, to garner a “flashback” comparison to Robinson from Adebayo, which Josh Richardson – also present for Robinson’s first training camp – echoed a day later.
“He can shoot the crap out of the ball,” Richardson said, “He can play off of floppy, catch and shoot, pin downs, he’s got a quick release. He kind of knows how to put it down a little bit. I’ve never seen him play before I got here so I was surprised. He’s definitely kind of like a young Duncan and he’s definitely hard on himself like Duncan is.”
Let’s go Heat! We can definitely rebound back to even better form. Sucks we don’t have a superstar point guard but with Spo making everybody a shooter, everyone becomes a threat on our team. Look at what became of Strus, Vincent, Martin, DRob. It’s insane that the Heat have trained snipers from undrafted stock SO MUCH better than a majority of other NBA teams’ draft prospects. Imagine the Heat having a pick in the top 5 of the draft class.
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“This has been a relatively quiet training camp, as far as training camps go. There are some questions about the rotation and plenty of young players around trying to earn their spot in the league, but most of it falls into the category of standard fare. Among those young players, however, one who seems to have popped a bit is Cole Swider, the 6-foot-9 shooter out of Villanova and Syracuse who spent last with the Los Angeles Lakers and their G-League affiliate – where he shot 43.6 percent from three in 27 games. He’s been shooting the ball well enough at least, to garner a “flashback” comparison to Robinson from Adebayo, which Josh Richardson – also present for Robinson’s first training camp – echoed a day later.
“He can shoot the crap out of the ball,” Richardson said, “He can play off of floppy, catch and shoot, pin downs, he’s got a quick release. He kind of knows how to put it down a little bit. I’ve never seen him play before I got here so I was surprised. He’s definitely kind of like a young Duncan and he’s definitely hard on himself like Duncan is.”
Let’s go Heat! We can definitely rebound back to even better form. Sucks we don’t have a superstar point guard but with Spo making everybody a shooter, everyone becomes a threat on our team. Look at what became of Strus, Vincent, Martin, DRob. It’s insane that the Heat have trained snipers from undrafted stock SO MUCH better than a majority of other NBA teams’ draft prospects. Imagine the Heat having a pick in the top 5 of the draft class.