How Kel'el Ware fits with the Miami Heat
Isis Young, Krysten Peek, Lamar Hurd, and Tom Haberstroh discuss the Miami Heat's decision to select Kel'el Ware with the 15th pick in the 2024 NBA Draft.
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All right.
The Miami Heat take where at pick 15 where the center from Indiana had a lot of production this past year.
KP your thoughts on this?
I love this.
I love that.
Kel really redeemed himself.
We saw what he did.
He kind of disappeared when he was at Oregon.
And remember this is a player that NBA scouts have known who he is because he was a five star prospect coming out of high school, played for team USA at the U A level and he just did absolutely nothing in Oregon transfers to Indiana becomes much more productive in the pick and roll.
He improved his footwork, improved his hands in terms of what he was doing with the ball.
He wasn't second guessing himself.
Average 16 and 10.
I like this pick and usually what we see with Miami is they take swings on more established players.
So picking a player like Kel Ware who has two years of college experience and still has tremendous upside with his athleticism.
I'm all for it.
The fit for Miami with Ware.
What are you thinking?
It makes sense to me from the standpoint of he's a vertical threat Miami Heat last year with Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler number one in the league in terms of the percentage of mid range shots that they took for Adebayo.
He started really heavy in the midrange, moved even closer to the rim as the season went on.
So that tightens things up.
So if you're gonna be down there, you gotta be able to get up.
That's the only way to provide that spacing and he will be able to do that.
Yeah, Erik Spoelstra taught me once.
What vertical spacing is.
We think about the floor spacing at the three point line.
You can also suck the defense into the paint when you have a vertical jumper like Khalil Ware who's got a 7 ft five wing span.
So this guy is really long.
I'm surprised they didn't go with Jared mccain or Dalton connect, but they're confident in their ability to score in the half court.
That's what this pick tells me that they feel like they need size and he is as big as anybody outside of Zach Edie, your favorite kid and say Ware led the big 10 in defensive percentage rebounding.
So it's a guy that, you know, is going to get on the glass.
Seems like a good pick to us for the heat.