John Jablonka

Has Tyler Herro played like an All-Star this year? A case for Tyler Herro to make the All-Star game

New🏀words! Has Tyler Herro played like an All-Star?

That's what I go through today. I made my case for Herro to be in the All-Star game. He's 1 of 5 players to average 25/5/5 per 75 possessions on at least 60% TS - Shai, Curry, Giannis, Jokic & Herro

www.simplyballin.com/p/has-tyler-...

The Culture Report: Ware's week & it's not the end of the world for Bam Welcome to The Culture Report!

New🏀words! For this week's Culture Report
- Spurs, Blazers, Bucks game thoughts
- A look at Ware averaging 22/11 in these 3 games
- Quick thoughts on Ware-Bam starting
- & how there's an overreaction to Bam & it's really not the end of the world for him
www.simplyballin.com/p/the-cultur...

Welcome to The Third Apron! What it is, what to expect, and why you should subscribe.

Announcement: I'm back writing again.

Introducing The Third Apron
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A Deep Dive Into the Starters' Offense How do the Heat starters have a 125 ORTG?

New🏀words! The Miami Heat's starters have a 125 ORTG, that's almost as good as the Boston Celtics

I went through the stats & film on how they've been doing that
www.simplyballin.com/p/a-deep-div...

Here's a rough rundown of the playtype distribution with the starters on

Most common of getting pts has been a Herro as the ball handler in PNR, then Duncan

Bam & Butler in isolation/post is the next common

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How is Jimmy Butler having the most efficient season of his career A full breakdown of how Butler is having the most efficient season of his career

New🏀words again! Jimmy Butler is having his most efficient season of his career. I watched all of his makes & fouls to see how he's done it
- More off-ball role with the starters
- 1.58 & 1.54pts per poss on cuts/transition
- Best PNR season
www.simplyballin.com/p/how-is-jim...

🔥 THE HEAT FOUD HIS HERRO 🦸‍♂️

This season has seen Tyler Herro increasingly empowered ball-in-hand.
For the 1st time, the Heat's Tyler Herro is showing above-average scoring efficiency.
Let's take a look at tonight's game against the Cavs.

#MiamiHeat #HeatSky

#NBAThread ⬇️

How the Heat found another gem in Pelle Larsson The Miami Heat have done it again. They found another gem late in the draft that has already flashed enough to show he could be a key contributor. That is, of c

New🏀words! I broke down the season that Pelle Larsson is having through his smart off-ball play & defense that got him closing multiple key games

I can't wait for a random 25/5/5 game in the playoffs in an elimination game
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With the Miami Heat reaching the 20 game mark. Here are their stats in each of the last 5 years

They have the 3rd best net. It's 2pts better than the year they made the 2023 run

The Culture Report: Taking Out Lillard, Countering Mavericks & Some Thoughts on Butler + Rozier Welcome to The Culture Report!

New🏀words! It's Friday, so it's Culture Report, a round up of everything you need to know about the Heat's week
- Wins vs Mavs/Hornets & Loss vs Bucks
- Adjusting to Lillard
- Countering the Mavericks
- Thoughts on Butler & Rozier

www.simplyballin.com/p/the-cultur...

What's Been Heating Up: Lillard Cooking Until Spo Adjusted To Take Him Out A breakdown of how Lillard cooked in the 1st before Spoelstra adjusting to cut off the whole Bucks offense

New🏀words! I broke down how Damian Lillard was cooking early on & what was wrong with the defense
& then how the Heat adjusted in the 2nd half to take Lillard out completely & stalled their offense

www.simplyballin.com/p/whats-been...

Just to put that in perspective, he had 24 in Oct last year ALONE lol. 24 in 4 games vs 11 in 14. In that 7 game stretch before he got injured he had: 21 rim, 28 paint, 38(!!!) mid and 61 3s

How the Mavericks Looked To Take away the Rim & How the Heat Countered The Heat shot 22/48 at the rim thanks to the Mavs defense, but they countered that well to close out the game

New🏀words! I broke down why the Heat went 22/48 at the rim thanks to the Mavericks defense, which involved solid 1v1 defense, being early to help on drives/tags & Lively/Gafford helping off to stay in the paint

& how the Heat countered that late
www.simplyballin.com/p/how-the-ma...

How the Mavericks Looked To Take away the Rim & How the Heat Countered The Heat shot 22/48 at the rim thanks to the Mavs defense, but they countered that well to close out the game

New🏀words! I broke down why the Heat went 22/48 at the rim thanks to the Mavericks defense, which involved solid 1v1 defense, being early to help on drives/tags & Lively/Gafford helping off to stay in the paint

& how the Heat countered that late
www.simplyballin.com/p/how-the-ma...

YouTube video by Eurohoops Scouting Making the case for Pelle Larsson - 2024 NBA Draft

Pelle Larsson looked great last night for the Heat with 14pts/5rebs/1ast/1stl and has looked like a rotation piece out of the draft. I went over his game prior to being drafted, especially what made him such an intriguing piece to play right away

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUVa...

What's Been Going On With Bam Adebayo Part 2: A Full Breakdown of His Season A full breakdown of Bam Adebayo's season

New🏀words. A BIG Bam Adebayo breakdown. I went through everything you need to know about what's been going on & why he's had a slow start

6k words. Plenty of stats. So much film, discussion & analysis. Hope you enjoy

www.simplyballin.com/p/whats-been...

Right now it feels very just lowkey but kinda like it. My discovered feed makes up mostly people that I follow or "normal" related things. It's filled with too much of anything

What's Been Going On With Bam Adebayo Part 2: A Full Breakdown of His Season A full breakdown of Bam Adebayo's season

New🏀words. A BIG Bam Adebayo breakdown. I went through everything you need to know about what's been going on & why he's had a slow start

6k words. Plenty of stats. So much film, discussion & analysis. Hope you enjoy

www.simplyballin.com/p/whats-been...

The NBA on Five Reasons Sports Network Basketball Podcast · 1 Episodes · Updated Daily

The new NBA on 5RSN podcast feed is now on ApplePodcasts

Sub now.

We will be posting all non-5OTF NBA podcasts here, from current and future contributors

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Jared already getting to the line just as much in his rookie year SIGH

What's Been Going on With Bam Adebayo Part 1: A Discussion On His Game Discussing what's been going on with Bam by looking at how we got here with his game

New🏀words! A 2 parter where I go through why Bam Adebayo has been struggling
Part 1 t's a longer discussion going through the changes in his game & for what reasons to add context to how we got here with Bam
& part 2 will have all the film breakdowns
www.simplyballin.com/p/whats-been...

Season EPM is out, so here are the Miami Heat players
- Herro making a huge jump offensively
- Bam & Haywood carrying defensively!
- Butler a surprisingly bad defensive year
- Duncan 4th in impact
- Richardson EASILY last by an ocean size margin is insane

Previewing Sixers-Nets: Does Ben Simmons have anything left in the tank, and is Brooklyn a future trade partner? Breaking down all things Ben Simmons and potential Sixers-Nets trades ahead of the teams' first meeting in 2024-25.

New: Ahead of Sixers-Nets, I talked to @lucaskaplan.bsky.social about how things are going for old friend Ben Simmons + early returns on head coach Jordi Fernández.

Then, Lucas gave a primer on BKN veterans who could be of interest to the Sixers in trades:

www.phillyvoice.com/sixers-vs-ne...

The Culture Report: Cruising Through the Pacers, Unable to Stop the Pacers & Stopping the 76ers How the Heat had two very different games vs the same Pacers & how they didn't make Embiid's live easy

New🏀words! For this week's Culture Report, I go through
- How they cruised through the Pacers offensively
- How the Pacers feasted a couple of days later
- & how they stopped the 76ers

www.simplyballin.com/p/the-cultur...

Sixers-Heat preview: Is a Jimmy Butler trade coming? Is Jimmy Butler going to depart Miami soon, and how have the Heat responded to losing Kyle Lowry? Learning about that and more ahead of Heat-Sixers on Monday night.

Talked to my friend John Jablonka to preview Sixers-Heat tonight...

What is going on with Jimmy Butler and the Heat, and is a breakup coming?

How have the Heat looked in the aftermath of the Kyle Lowry-for-Terry Rozier trade?

Is Miami's run finally ending?

www.phillyvoice.com/sixers-vs-he...

Well well well looks like we got a #HeatSky starter pack

go.bsky.app/Dgy3yUb

Seeing as I'll be looking to be more on here, here are also all of the places & links where you can find my work
- Basketball portfolio
- Miami Heat coverage for AUCH
- Basketball substack at Simplyballin.com
- Personal substack at jjswords.substack.com

& all social media handles JohnJablonka_