Miami Heat sign Delon Wright: Ethan Skolnick takes five

Miami Heat sign Delon Wright: Ethan Skolnick takes five

Hey it’s Ean Skol for five on the floor in the Five Reasons YouTube channel here with the latest season ticket the Miami Heat made their buyout move today it wasn’t Thad young he’s already gone to Phoenix it wasn’t Danilo G galinari he’s gone to Milwaukee it was Delan Wright

And that’s someone that we’ve spoken about quite a bit on the five on the floor podcast why well few reasons one there’s a connection there of course they drafted D’s older brother derell danan was around the Heat organization a lot when I was covering derell so he

Knows it very well I wouldn’t be surprised if he says when he’s introduced that he’s always wanted to play for the heat of course a long-standing relationship between his brother and Dwayne Wade and D shares that relationship now as well but from a basketball perspective this is about

Point of attack defense that has been a problem for the Miami Heat the entire season particularly when they had Kyle Lowry they swapped him with a first round pick for Terry Rosier then Terry Rosier got hurt he is supposed to be back pretty close to the end of the

All-Star break so I don’t think Terry’s going to be out too long but Josh Richardson who was supposed to provide some of that point of attack defense he’s expected to be out longer with a separated shoulder so this is about adding a guard to the backourt rotation

Who can defend at that spot and that means that your wings guys like Caleb marttin haime hawz particularly Haywood heith don’t have to cover up for them they can actually guard their own men and so I think this is a real positive for the Miami Heat this is a guy who was

Shot 35 to 36% from three over the course of his career he’s not a high volume three-point shooter he’s only an okay attacker again he’s not an elite player but as a role player in particularly one who’s 31 who could stick around Beyond this season which is something that you don’t really have

With a lot of buyout guys he provides some protection right now while rir is out and when Richardson’s out and he could be someone who gets spot minutes in the playoffs as well so I don’t think it’s going to take him long to learn the system and we remember a couple years

Ago he gave Tyler herro a big problem defensively in the playoffs he really got up into Tyler that’s the kind of Defense he plays he’ll bring that to practice and into the game so I like the move for the heat anytime that you give Eric Pooler more tools at his disposable

And I know that he fans wanted a big but we also know that Eric spuler is not going to play a big most likely he’s going to play bam Kevin Love and probably a wing at the four maybe a little at Nico yic and that’s it so I

Don’t know that any other big that he brought that he brought in would have gotten significant minutes anyway the other thing that this does is this keeps the heat under the second apron they were able to add Talent replace Lowry who was disgruntled in declining they added Talent at the point guard position

In Rosier a guy who can attack paint and then a point of attack defender on the other side with Delan Wright and they did so without going into the second apron which means that they’ll be able to do this again okay because if you’re in the second apron you can’t add buyout

Guys so I like the move again this is not a move is going to win you a championship to me that still comes down to Jimmy bam and Tyler figuring things out but every piece that you can add we know the depth can matter in the playoffs particularly in certain

Matchups I like putting Delan Wright on Dame Lillard for short period of time right might be something that the heat look at so I approve I know the rest of our our staff here at five on the floor does again we talked about Delana right a lot and it ended up happening today

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