{"id":141587,"date":"2025-09-14T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141587\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:35:09","slug":"miami-heat-guard-earns-brutal-mention-among-nbas-all-overpaid-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141587\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat guard earns brutal mention among \u201cNBA\u2019s All-Overpaid Team\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

After what felt like a no-brainer steal for the Miami Heat<\/a>, giving up an aging veteran guard and a first-round pick for a 20-point scorer in Terry Rozier<\/a>, the partnership has been anything but perfect.<\/p>\n

Hindsight always makes mistakes even worse than they are, and this situation isn\u2019t anything different. While Kyle Lowry\u2019s production certainly decreased compared to his previous seasons with the Heat, attaching assets to move him for a player who fell out of the rotation entirely has turned out to be a massive failure. Bleacher Report <\/a>breaks down why Rozier is one of the most overpaid backcourt players in the league.<\/p>\n

2025-26 Season Cap Hit: $26,643,031<\/p>\n

Percentage of Salary Cap: 17.23<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year represented his absolute nadir. His minutes (25.9) and points (10.6) per game were their lowest since 2018-19, and his 29.5 percent clip from downtown was the second-worst of his career,\u201d the article wrote. \u201cA bounce-back campaign isn’t out of the question for someone who can rain threes off the catch, movement, and dribble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rozier\u2019s heavy isolation style, where he thrived with the Charlotte Hornets, hasn\u2019t been a great fit with the Heat. A significant reason for his decreasing success has been his inability to knock down perimeter shots, as he only made 29.5 percent of his three-point attempts last year. With the Heat leaning towards a younger direction and seemingly improving their roster\u2019s depth, his chances of playing again remain very slim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis assumes Rozier is an active part of the rotation,\u201d the article continued. \u201cTyler Herro, Norman Powell, and Davion Mitchell <\/a>are all ahead of him in the pecking order. He must now also contend for minutes with Pelle Larsson, Dru Smith, and rookie Kasparas Jakucionis.\u201d<\/p>\n

ESPN explains Miami Heat\u2019s most significant weakness isn’t what you think<\/p>\n

Even though Jimmy Butler often coasted during the regular season, there were several aspects the Miami Heat desperately lacked outside of him on their roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Heat losing Butler was always going to be difficult to replace, considering his consistent and increasing production in the postseason. One significant value the roster has struggled to replicate without him has been his ability to get to the free-throw line. ESPN\u2019s Kevin Pelton breaks down why the Heat\u2019s offseason moves may lead to improvement in that area for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter trading Jimmy Butler III, the Heat’s perimeter-oriented attack struggled to get to the line,\u201d the article wrote. \u201cOnly the Celtics had a worse free-throw rate after the All-Star break, and Miami attempted just 13.3 per game in a first-round sweep by Boston, second lowest in playoff history … ahead of the 2024 Heat (12.0). Adding Norman Powell (4.4 FTA per game) should help.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the emergence of Tyler Herro\u2019s first All-Star appearance, a career high of 4.2 attempts from the free-throw line became an underrated part of his game. Unfortunately, Bam Adebayo\u2019s transition into a more perimeter-oriented playstyle and increased three-point shooting led to the lowest free-throw rate of his career. Powell\u2019s three-level scoring ability and an internal improvement from their younger core players should lead to higher production drawing fouls this season.<\/p>\n

MORE MIAMI HEAT<\/a> NEWS<\/p>\n

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Heat\u2019s Addition Sparks Excitement For Upcoming Season In Latest ESPN Ranking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After what felt like a no-brainer steal for the Miami Heat, giving up an aging veteran guard and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-141587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}