{"id":356922,"date":"2025-12-20T04:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:12:12","slug":"ex-nba-player-brian-scalabrine-says-that-bam-adebayo-could-be-more-aggressive-offensively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356922\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NBA player Brian Scalabrine says that Bam Adebayo could be more \u2018aggressive\u2019 offensively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/miami-heat\/news\/brian-scalabrine-bam-adebayo-be-more-aggressive-offensively\/86bf14f6cc6fdcf09652dd7b?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ex-NBA player Brian Scalabrine says that Bam Adebayo could be more \u2018aggressive\u2019 offensively;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ex-NBA player Brian Scalabrine says that Bam Adebayo could be more \u2018aggressive\u2019 offensively<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Heat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Heat<\/a> big man Bam Adebayo has long established himself as one of the league\u2019s top defenders, but some feel as though he has plenty of untapped potential offensively as well.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>During the Heat\u2019s 129-116 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston Celtics<\/a>, Boston commentator \u2014 and ex-NBA player \u2014 Brian Scalabrine offered a hot take about Adebayo\u2019s offensive potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always felt Bam could be more aggressive. He should be a better offensive player&#8230; It feels like he could average more points and more assists,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/heatculture13\/status\/2002178561638072781?s=46&amp;t=SF-knYTy_vdKy3mmfTQuvQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scalabrine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Scalabrine<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayo is averaging 18.7 points, 9.4 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game this season. He has averaged 20 points per game just once in his NBA career, when he averaged 20.4 points in the 2022-23 season. Despite some recent growth in his three-point shooting, his overall scoring hasn\u2019t ticked up just yet, even with Jimmy Butler now out of the picture, giving Adebayo \u2014 in theory \u2014 more room to become a top scoring option for Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Adebayo\u2019s efforts defensively have made him one of the NBA\u2019s premier big men, and have helped push the Heat to a 15-13 record to start the season, right in the thick of the playoff race in the Eastern Conference. He and the Heat will look to get the ball rolling soon as they look to improve after a disappointing result last season.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-NBA player Brian Scalabrine says that Bam Adebayo could be more \u2018aggressive\u2019 offensively originally appeared on The Sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[14736,1222,154242,49,48,25308,8224,459,82,137480],"class_list":{"0":"post-356922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-bam-adebayo","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-brian-scalabrine","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-jimmy-butler","14":"tag-miami-heat","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-untapped-potential"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}