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Q: Erik Spoelstra cannot and does not want to coach a true center. It’s his Achilles heel as a coach, and it might be what prevents him from winning another championship. Each playoff there will be a team against whom small ball simply won’t work, and Spoelstra won’t have an answer. – Andrew, Coral Gables.

A: But you could have said that against Brook Lopez in this past season’s first round, and against Al Horford/Robert Williams in the East finals, and yet the Heat found a way. It’s not that Erik Spoelstra does not want to coach a true center, it’s that he has Bam Adebayo as his center and wants to coach Bam Adebayo as his center. The approach has yielded three appearances in the conference finals over the past four seasons, including two berths in the NBA Finals. And, to be fair, it’s not as if teams with true centers stopped Nikola Jokic on the way to his championship with the Nuggets. You build your best team by utilizing your best players. That does not mean you can’t also have size, but it has to be the right fit alongside Bam.



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