Miami Heat: Assessing Each Player’s Role for the 2015-16 Season

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Gerald Green

Gerald Green of the Miami Heat

Green was brought in for one main reason—three-point shooting.

While playing with Goran Dragic in Phoenix during the 2013-14 season, Green had a breakout season converting on 40 percent of his three-point shot attempts while ranking fourth in the league in three-point field goals made.

The Heat were one of the worst three-point shooting squads in the NBA last season, ranking 24th in shooting percentage. They were just 21st in three-point field goals made.

Very much like the role Ray Allen occupied a couple of years ago, Green will be a shot specialist and also be depended upon to be the primary backup at shooting guard behind Wade.

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D.J. Siddiqi grew up in the heart of South Florida in Broward County. Growing up in South Florida during the late 90's and 2000's, D.J. witnessed the Pat Riley years where the Miami Heat faced off with the New York Knicks all the way to the painful late 2000's seasons where the Heat were a one-man team with Dwyane Wade. D.J. has closely followed the Heat over the past decade-and-a-half, and unfortunately witnessed Game 2 of the 2011 NBA Finals in person when the Dallas Mavericks overcame a 15-point deficit to knock off the Heat. D.J. has writing experience as a columnist with sites such as Bleacher Report and Rant Sports, and he is proud to bring his knowledge of the Heat and the NBA to Heat Nation.