Who Are the Best Miami Heat Targets at Wing and Forward in the 2024 NBA Draft?

Who Are the Best Miami Heat Targets at Wing and Forward in the 2024 NBA Draft?

Miami needs to add some depth this off season and the NBA draft is a good opportunity to do just that so we’re scouting some potential options at the wings including a name that’s climbing up everyone’s draft board could he be the perfect fit for the heat it’s another great blue notebook episode on today’s episode of Locked on [Music] heat you are locked on heat your daily Miami Heat podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team everyday you are locked on heat your everyday podcast on the Miami Heat whether you’re tuning in on YouTube Odyssey or your favorite podcast app thanks for making locked on heat your first listen every day Monday to Friday I’m Wes Goldberg editor at allou can heat.com here with David remill both of us credentialed heat media members today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time download the game time app create an account use the code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase terms apply we’re continuing today with our blue notebook NBA draft prep series on at least one episode each week between now and the draft we’re going to be diving into the scattering reports on a bunch of prospects we’re doing the work we’re getting into the film and we’re going to organize all these prospects by Major questions and themes and today we’re talking about wings and forwards who could help replace Caleb Martin and Haywood heith if one or both of them end up leaving in free agency so we’ve done this scouting work we’re going to bring a few of the guys who interest us the most to the table on today’s blue notebook that’s what I’m doing I’m taking 10 blue notebooks with me to Malibu with my wife blue notebooks blue notebooks blue notebooks 10 blue notebooks to Malibu blue notebooks blue notebooks blue notebooks 10 blue notebooks to Malibu my life I think we have to start with Colorado’s Tristan da Silva a I would say a polarizing Prospect not in that the dude can play but he’s 23 years old and I do think I’m a little bit higher on him than you are so what so what stands out to you about the Silva maybe what’s the thing that makes you a little hesitant about him the lack of explosive athleticism at his age I think there’s a ceiling there uh that he’s kind of had to you gone through this slow gradual process of developing look it’s not that I’m out on him I think he could be a good and functional player I’m just not sure exactly what Miami is looking for in this draft and so it gives me pause when we’re looking at all these different candidates because you could look at adding a guy like d Silva who I think is probably as close to ready to play as you’re gonna get although I think his ceiling is somewhat low and limited or you can take a swing on somebody who’s going to be more of a developmental project somebody like I’ll talk about later on and that might be somebody that might not sniff to court for a year or two and I don’t know where Miami is in terms of that timeline and how they’re approaching this particular draft do they need a player that you can add right away and to your point earlier given the fact that Miami’s likely gonna lose a couple of key Wing players they probably need to add somebody that’s going to be ready made I just don’t know if you look at a guy like the Silva or some of the other names on this list and say he’s gonna be a really good functional player right away and that he’s gonna have a potential to grow into something more special if you’re just gonna add like another Wing player like a solid okay Wing player that has a limited ceiling I’m pretty sure you can add somebody on a veteran minimum or somebody else that’s gonna be like a g-league type Prospect and given Miami’s ability to develop these players and get them to overachieve why not just make your own Haywood heith or Caleb Martin rather than having to draft someone like that that’s a very fair point it it’s the kind of it’s the big picture thing that I I do want to tackle a little bit later on but I think the Heat have used the draft over the last couple of seasons to add to their depth right they obviously rely on veteran free agents and stuff but not as much anymore they really kind of say we want to get young guys and we want to get them through the draft you know minimum free agents it’s just not like the Surplus isn’t really out there and so a guy like haime haky Jr even Nicola yovic a year ago like two years ago yic was a little bit more of a project but he had size and I think that they viewed him as somebody who could at least play a role relatively soon and and they were right within a couple of years he was playing a role in the rotation and I think that’s when you listen to Pat Ry talk they do sort of say in today’s CBA the draft might be the best way to add talent to kind of round out the depth chart and and and do those things with young players and young talent and things like that but it’s not black and white to your point you also want to go get a guy who has some kind of ceiling go get a guy that can grow in your system like yic and hakz clearly still have room to grow even if they were able to make sort of immediate impacts or very close to immediate impacts so that’s where I think I’m a little bit higher on Silvera than you are because I do think that there’s still a ceiling to get to there he’s a 6’9 forward with a 6’10 wingspan 217 pounds NBA ready body right away which I really like averaged 16 points per game at Colorado last year five rebounds two and a half assists more than a steal a game and shot almost 40% from three-point range 40% on catch and shoot shots which is huge that seems to me as a guy who could step in right away and just put him on the wing put him on the perimeter and he can at least hit some shots for you the shot is real it’s repeatable and all that stuff is the stuff that I think most people like but then I kind of got into the film and there was a lot more stuff that was surprising to me in a good way when I really dug into it he doesn’t just catch and shoot that’s not his whole game offensively like he will drive close he’ll the he’ll use his gravity uses his space he’s smart about eating up space right if if the defender is giving him 10t of space he’ll drive into the paint and take a nice little eight-footer he’s he’s not afraid to do that which is the thing I think attracted to my miam to haime hakz is that he he kind of had that Court awareness he’s smart there was this one play where he used he turned very impromptu he was he was setting a back screen and his ball handler went a little Haywire kind of went over to the left side of the floor he set that back screen on the right side of the paint and he ended up turning that back screen into like a faux pick and roll kind of thing and Dives towards the basket and just basically saves the entire possession and it’s those little flashes those little moments where you’re like oh this guy’s a really smart basketball player he knows how to play with others he’s not just a guy who’s standing on the in the corner waiting for shots to come and so there’s a lot of that kind of stuff and I do think he’s shown some on ball potential I like that he throws over the top in pick and roll Colorado didn’t use him as their primary pick and roll ball handler but as sort of a second side Guy where you would flow into those kind of Twan actions he’s Adept at making that pass and reading the court there’s stuff that I like there that I think the heat can explore a little bit more with him which suggests a little bit of a higher ceiling even even though he just turned 23 years old I’m a little surprised to hear you say NBA ready body like I don’t I don’t know he’s quite there he looks a little slight right I mean to me I think that he’s a guy who can kind of will get bullied off you know defensive position but he’s also not like these 19y olds who are walking in at 185 pounds after a shower you know what I mean it’s it’s okay I guess that’s more of what I meant no no I know I further along than some but not as far along as others and and that’s that’s kind of where I’m at with this Wing position it’s like there’s nobody that really kind of like pops like I like the Silva the idea of him on a team that might not need to take a chance on somebody with high upside maybe you know like they they got highe hoaks last year I think a lot of people said the same thing he’s like oh he’s older you know slow process in terms of his four-year career at UCLA he made some gradual improvements steady footwork ready to play immediately ready to contribute right away and the idea especially in that last year after this you know what I me just came off a finals run however unbelievable might have been he kind of just fits perfectly into this you look at this Miami Heat roster especially with the potential of losing two key Wing players and maybe a third given whatever happens with the Jimmy Butler situation who knows how that plays out and I don’t know that you can kind of take a chance on somebody who’s kind of limited and might just be a good solid player that you can contribute shortly after his draft I don’t know it’s a it’s a tough sell it’s a tough sell I I get it and you’re right I think haime even despite him being an upper classman when he came in was more athletic had more ball skills had more feel with the ball in his hands like there was something that suggested a higher ceiling there uh the big the big issue with haime right was his shot and how many people would tell us like if this guy didn’t shoot 302 if he shot 40% the way D Silva did he would have been a lottery pick last year yes you know so that was the biggest hang up with him I I think if you were going to draft a Silva the idea would be we’re just trying to replace Haywood heith that’s it we’re just trying to replace Heywood heith we’re not trying to go get a highe we’re don’t want to yic and to your I don’t not replacement for high Smith right I mean that’s the whole thing like defensively he’s okay he’s not going to block shots even somewh taller I’m not saying that he is Haywood High Smith just like we need to replace like a wing that’s leaving we just need a guy who could play 10 minutes night for us you know defensively he’s he uses his arms he knocks away passes he plays the gaps well he can get interceptions I like that Colorado used Zone last year defensively and that’s probably and this is just all stuff for like day one it helps the heat could teach Zone to anybody they’ve shown that but I like that like the coaches will at least notice like okay this guy kind of knows how to do this already and that’s pretty helpful so that’s sort of where I’m at on on D Silva let’s move on um to our next Prospect who did we want to talk or let’s tease it who do you want to talk about and then we’ll go to break and then we’ll talk about him talk about Kean George out of the University of Miami in the next seg today to’s episode is brought to you 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size at 67 uh 610 and a half kind of a wingspan so he’s got much much bigger 220 good size I’m sorry not that 220 that’s yeah that’s what 209 208 somewhere around there um so he’s you know good size years old 20 years old and this is the thing a lot of people didn’t even expect him to leave the the University of Miami after one year that this was what caught everybody off guard it’s like okay well you know this is given his situation given the fact that he wants to take the chance he put his name into the ring his name is dropped he was supposed to be somewhere around where Miami selecting maybe kind of started dropping a little bit and now some mck drafts including the river ringer have him as a possible second round selection the athletic had him as a second round pick too so yeah so his name is dropping a little bit but this is again the kind of player that Miami might take they are willing to just say you know what we want somebody with huge upside and that’s the common refrain in describing George he is tall he can get that shot over everybody good shooter really willing shooter and that’s kind of what I liked about him he’s just like he’ll pop that right in your face and he will not have any qualms about it it’s also one of his weaknesses is that his range as far as it is he kind of tends to overextend himself a little bit maybe some of those shots he might not have taken that could just be the fact that he was 19 years old and playing college ball and you know he wasn’t getting a lot of minutes and he’s kind of a guy who just wanted a pop because he wanted to make his impression because he wanted to be a oneand done maybe this was his idea the whole time entering into the Collegiate system was to kind of use it for the one year showcase what I’ve got go into the draft and take my chances well guess what this is Miami’s chance I don’t know I I don’t know if I’d be willing to spend the 15th pick on him although I don’t think it would necessarily be a huge reach because again you’re banking on the fact that he’s going to develop but but if you could trade somehow into the late first round to get him that might be more ideal we’re already starting to hear some noise that because it’s the two-day draft Affair that there going to be a lot of teams that are scrambling after that first day of the draft to try and position themselves it could be a chaotic an evening or whatever 24 hours in between day one of the draft and day two as teams time to scramble to whoever’s left in the second round I want to move up to get him so I don’t know if Miami is willing to do that given that they have so little draft collateral I don’t know that they can trade picks the way they did years ago um this isn’t that kind of situation so I don’t know but as far as George is concerned huge upside smart not you know smart player kind of relatively to his age Etc willing shooter great range can also put the ball down can finish at The Rim good touch around the basket good shooting skills good passing skills really really good passer so a guy who can develop like he’s a he’s a point forward in the making and while you might already have that in and N yic who’s to say you can’t get somebody else that can develop on the same timeline that’s what I like about him is is all the stuff that you just said he’s a he shot almost 41% on 133 Point attempts in his first year what little minutes he had he was gun dude if you’re talking and and quick release and a repeatable release on a lot of different angles and kind of different situations a lot from the corner above the break off the pull-ups all this stuff the guy can shoot the ball and he’s going to be able to shoot the ball in the NBA I’m confident about that he’s one of the better Shooters in the in the it looks nice it’s a pretty stroke the whole thing I like that he’s able to attack those Closeouts with drives he uses his arm well even though he’s a little bit lighter in the Caboose I still think he uses his arms well to kind of create some space when he gets into that painted area and draw some contact I do like that he he plays strong he does and I and and when he actually gets strong I think that will translate and I do think he has the frame to put that weight on yes um and and so does all these things again a lot like a lot like uh D Silva kind of floated into a lot of different pick and rolles there at Miami and he can make tough passes out of that pick and roll sometimes too tough he tries them they a little too hard that assist to turnover ratio is really upside down it’s not good he needs to get smarter as a ball handler but it’s not going to be his job on day one I’ve seen comparisons to uh to Joe Eng Les for him and I really like that maybe a more and and yeah more athletic you know given that he really showcasing he’s not he’s not an awesome athlete Jo Joe Engles yeah but Joe Engles can’t jump over a phone book like not realistically like I I mean but I think just in terms of your on ball usage like his ability to hit hit threes reliably and still play play out of the pick and roll and stuff rather him be Jo Les and Kyle Anderson Jo is a more skilled ball handler I think like I think Les offensively in terms of a role is pretty good guy who can play out a pick and roll and and hit threes and then defensively be a little bit better maybe and then and he does he plays with a toughness defensively he puts your chest in he puts his chest into you he does some things he’s got to get bigger that’s it I think the heat are really going to appreciate the fact that he was coached by Jim lyanga I think that’s going to matter a lot we’ve seen yes that matter a lot to this front office into this coaching staff in the past and I think they would I think SPO would jump at the opportunity to actually take a guy from the um program I think he would be really excited to do that now that’s not going to be the deal the the reason they draft anybody but I think it could be some icing on the cake there um so I like him a lot I don’t really know why he’s dropped on boards as much I don’t know if it was a bad combine for him if the interviews didn’t go super well if it’s just a question about that overall athleticism I’m not really sure too could have been bad workouts but I I he’s one of the guys that I’m looking at when teams start doing their pre-draft workouts which are starting this week and next week across the league to see if he starts ra uh going up boards and stuff like that because I think teams are going to be really interested in the fact that this dude is a knockdown shooter and we know that day one yeah I I don’t know again it’s kind of a bit of a risk but it could be a risk that pays off in a huge way and and maybe that was again it’s funny no Cameron Johnson when he came out of UNC a few years ago now he was he was a an upper classman he was sort of the opposite of George but was sort of Fringe first round guy but was one of the better Shooters in the draft with some size and the suns were just like we’re not going to overthink this we love shooters with size and we don’t need this guy to be sort of this on ball difference making Wing we already have Devon Booker we feel good about him and so if you’re a team like the heat picking at 15 but you’re not necessarily looking for your next Superstar I think a guy like kishan George does make sense and if you’re looking for your next Superstar I don’t know that he hits that the same with the Silva but if you’re not looking for that player he’s somebody who I think creates some value because of his I don’t know the heat don’t really do it they don’t trade up and down no they don’t no I I I know that’s what I’m saying but maybe they will I don’t know I I also don’t think in this draft you could trade down and get a future first- round pick I think the 30th pick in future drafts is worth more than the 15th pick in this draft you know I’m saying like like a player and the 28th pick in the draft in order to move up to the 15th for somebody you might really like or something like that depends on who’s on the board you know but I again I don’t think they heat do that they they kind of just find the guy they like and they go take him like they took bam seven or eight spots before he was projected to go yeah you know so they’re not they’re not worried about teams being the rest of the league saying that was a reach the heat aren’t worried about that they say well we don’t care what you think we’re taking the guy we want and next thing you know they’re all like I wish we would have taken that player I wish we had the for Sight to go and in this draft which is so spotty I really do think we’re going to see guys projected in mock drafts that are going at number 33 picked at in the top 20 I I wouldn’t it wouldn’t shock me at all I don’t know who these players are but it wouldn’t shock me at all if that were if something like that were to happen what is Miami’s most recent bad draft I know this is kind of big picture here but I’m trying to think of like how they approached this and I I don’t is it 2014 what was 14 uh shabaz naier they took Justice Winslow the year after that right that was that was a no-brainer for whatever his career panned out and there’s lots of issues that knows about off the court even if you were to just say what was the last pick to not pan out it was that they kept in the first round it was Justice Winslow you could you could you could get on them for taking precious aoua over Tyrese Maxi which is not as big of a sin to me as it is to most Heat fans because they ultimately were going to traded that guy for Kyle Lowry and I think they would have probably traded Tyrese Maxi for Kyle Lowry I don’t know I think they wer Kyle Lowry so um but the last first round pick that just flatly didn’t work out was Justice winow you know and that was also a no-brainer like I remember covering that draft and you and I were like P projected to go four to the Knicks yeah he’s a top five guy yeah and then everybody the poor zingis went early I forget the kid that was drafted by the Orlando Magic too they W up like bombing after a year Mario uh honia Mario honia there was yeah that was not a great draft that was not a great J um I got three more players that I want to hit really quick we’re going to do that after this on locked on okay today’s episode is brought to you by game time game time makes getting NBA Finals tickets even faster and easier but who would want to go see the Celtics or Mavericks play but if that’s something you’re interested in then you’ll find those tickets with killer last minute deals all in prices views from your seat and their lowest price guarantee game time tames to guest work out of buying NHL tickets go cats if you want to see those Panthers playing this is the best opportunity to do so and believe me you’ll find those tickets and you won’t find a better price anywhere because they’ve got all 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your favorite podcast app all right elevator pitches I got three more guys that I I did a little bit more work on that I want to hit here uh because these are all guys that are sort of in the range for Miami at 15 first one is Ron Holland which I was not planning on scouting but he’s starting to drop down boards too g- league night guy 6’8 hu uh long wingspan super athletic defensive stopper which is not what you expect from that g-league ignite program which tends to do the opposite a bunch of big physical strong guys who love to run the floor and not play any defense he’s the only guy for the ignite playing any defense last year and he stood out because of that um reminds me a little bit of herb Jones in the way that he plays defense just gets right up into your grill uses those long arms to create the flections he’s disruptive and I think that’s going to make that heat front office take a a hard look at him if he does fall to 15 the problem is can’t shoot a lick cannot shoot the ball almost zero offensive game very raw at that end can run and dunk you know but that’s that’s about it so maybe a Derrick Jones Jr type right away who still can’t like when he was in Miami not Derrick Jones Jun you’re now playing in the finals who’s capable of shooting threes and stuff like that so um you see again that with the same Pro I like I like his game overall I like the idea of what he could bring to the table but that’s a guy you can kind of find after he’s already gone through that process he was waved by Phoenix and L was like we’ll take a chance we’ll pick him up from next to nothing and he wind up flourishing in Miami system so I don’t know again that you want to expend a 15th pick but somebody’s got a drop to your point as you made earlier like everybody’s up and down in this draft nobody knows a guy who might be in the 20th rounds right about now in a mock draft probably goes into the top 10 for top 15 and so if somebody has to drop from that point it could be Holland and if you like enough about his defensive upside then who cares what he does I do think that the difference between somebody like him and even Heywood heith is the size you’re getting a 6 foot n guy with a s foot one it’s not the 6′ five smallish kind of thing who plays bigger the guys big he doesn’t have to play bigger he could just be bigger and the heat need that so but to your point there’s there’s definitely some reasons why the guy’s falling in the first place the other one’s Johnny Fury who maybe has my favorite name to say in the whole draft FY Fury he’s Australian uh which uh and he played at Kansas 19 years old 6’7 with a 6’8 wingspan 190 pounds uh was pretty productive in college was not used a ton this guy had a very defined role at Kansas made 35% of his 125 three-pointers almost all those threes were spot up and catch and shoot type of things not a guy that’s shooting off the dribble off the uh or off the dribble uh off the dribble or um you know running around off movement or anything like that basically stand in the corner make the threes that’s your job but he did it really well and if the heat are looking for somebody to do that really well then he can do that really well I like that he’s a good cutter uh he does a lot of movement off ball and uh as a cutter getting into the paint and he showed a knack for getting offensive rebounds from that spot in the corner ball goes up he crashes again averaged five rebounds per game last year for Kansas which is a little bit higher than you would think for somebody playing his position um he’s a diligent Defender high energy but never going to be a stopper just does his job sort of so very basic three and D type of player on the lower end of the D maybe higher end on the three if we’re going to kind of scale it the other one I had was uh Baylor shyan who uh I kind of like uh shooting guard at of kraton 6’6 with a 68 wingspan 2011 lbs one of the older prospects he’s 23 years old played 5 years in college but shot 39% for his career in those five years on threes and he’s a lefty um repeatable form off the catch off movement off of screens off the dribble just real pure shooting stroke deep NBA range proven and he can finish at The Rim he’s gotten off the dribble game he’s attacking Closeouts he finished 66% at the basket um does have a handle and I’m going to tell and the reporting out of the NBA Combine this is why this guy is rising in the on the boards is he he was the best player in all the five on five drills which we know is something that the heat front office appreciates when they’re scouting these guys can you actually play in a game or a game type situation my comp for him is Duncan Robinson like this dun Robinson the one that does stuff uh and so obviously not that good day one but that’s sort of the way that you know the way he plays that’s what he reminds me of so those are the other three guys um he could be a guy in the second round though like he could be I think it sounds he’s getting first round Buzz he does he might not drop out of the top 35 for every Kean Georgia drops then you get a shyan who kind of Rises up those wrist I don’t know it’s an interesting I I liked um what was his name mccullin mcculler out of Kansas as well a guy who played with Murphy he’s another older play Kevin mcculler um an older guy also uh probably another one of those readymade players he’s uh a little bit on the older side but you know shades of Nick Batum according to the ringer shades of Bruce bound like this is the guy that they’ve been looking for as far as those complimentary Wing players so he’s another kind of ready-made Prospect he started shooting better his last year at Kansas he’s not really a shooter but just a great defender guy who has hustle tenacity all the kind of intangibles they like he’s a guy who’s kind of in the early 30s so could he dropped as well if he drops to 42nd I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Miami a guy like that yeah oh sorry 43rd but he’s you know he’s another again uh low risk potentially High reward I mean not even high reward like okay reward like low risk yeah kind of okay reward the other guy that’s sort of a highrisk high reward type of guy is Tyler Smith the other g-league ignite guy uh good reliable three-point shooter really raw defensively but good decent to good size really athletic Above the Rim kind of guy I he also sort of reminds me of a young Derrick Jones Jr a little bit uh so that was another guy that I scouted there’s a bunch of guys that I want to kind of get to we’ll probably do a whole episode on second round guys as well so we’ve basically talked through a bunch of these guys according to most mock drafts and big boards the players that are and and by the way I skipped we skipped Cody Williams out of Colorado just because it would be very surprising if he dropped a number 15 and if you were wondering why any of the other guys at the top of the draft we didn’t talk about them probably because we don’t anticipate them getting down to number 15 so just keep that in mind but in terms of the guys that we did talk about the guys who are sort of in Miami’s range Ron Holland Tristan dilva Johnny Fury and I guess it doesn’t even I I would not even put kesan George in this mix now it’s really those other three guys unless unless they think unless we think that the heat would reach for George so I’ll just we’ll put it to those four if the question is you’ve got probably two Wings leaving in for agency which one of these guys make the most sense for the heat the draft to back fill those positions because you’re going to need to do that but also maybe provide this the upside that you’d be looking for at number 15 you know I do think that the Heat have used the the the draft to add those High floor rotation pieces but I also think that they have a checklist based on their recent draft history you need to have size you need to be able to handle the ball have some ball skills because Eric spoler all the time is saying we don’t really have a true point guard everybody can handle I think he really means that that that’s a that’s a priority for this team and character right High character coachability all that stuff like those are the if you don’t hit those three check marks I don’t really think they’re going to draft you if you don’t have positional size they’re not drafting those players anymore they want positional size they want somebody who could has some ball skills and they want those High character heat culture guys right they not we’re not for everybody that whole thing so when you kind of consider all these things who do you think is the best fit of the guys we talking about the none of the above I I really don’t go different position yeah I think so uh you you see it differently is the Silva guy I mean his handle okay but I don’t know that he really fits that he can check that particular box what do you think I’ve got I’ve kind I like Fury not just cuz I like saying his name he doesn’t hit the ball skills thing for me and that’s why I’m not sure the heat would go in that direction uh DVA has shown enough ball skills did I give you my dilva comp by the way I don’t think I did think so he reminds me of this version of Keegan Murray so Keegan Murray without the ceiling which is an okay player and I do wonder if the heat would look at that and say you know what that’s all right for us that’s okay with us uh so I’ve got the Silva on my board I’ve got Kean George on my board I think it would come down to one of those two guys I I am not taking my eye off of Baylor shyan it would be a heck of a reach for the heat at 15 but I’m not taking my eye off of him uh and so those are sort of the three guys that I’m looking at but I do think I agree with you that they might just go in a different they might go with a different position here but I wouldn’t it wouldn’t shock me if they took either of those guys so that’s where I’m at we’ll see how it plays out just a few weeks away we’re getting close I got my uh draft board behind me on the podcast go this way there you go could zoom in on that all right yeah that’ll do it for us today thanks for making lockon heat your first listen every day hit that subscribe button on YouTube and follow us on your podcast app

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