I see alot of people who watch Heat games complain about his team defense though. Whiteside has a lot of bad talk surrounding him lately and it seems his coach and some of the players agree
I see this alot to. Whenever I start looking up any type of defensive metrics I see a flood of people online saying "the heat are better with Chris Bosh at center" and then they post some number. And then when you go farther down the rabbit hole and start looking at those actual minutes you come to find out when Bosh is playing center the other team is playing at least 2 bench guys, sometimes more, sometimes an entire bench unit. Meanwhile the majority of Whiteside minutes and numbers are against starters...I am pretty sure Whiteside numbers would look pretty good if he got a ton of burn against the Thomas Robinson and Andrea Bargnani's of the world.
Does he get a little lax on defense. Yep. Does he not give max effort every time. Yep. Does he absolutely hate to step out on a pick and roll and concede a wide open jumpshot? Yep. Guess what? So does virtually every big man in the league, so why is it a big deal when Whiteside does it, or should I say doesn't do it? Also he is on a team with the undisputed leader of I don't get back on defense, Dwayne Wade, so how you think that is going to rub off on a young player ?
Miami is rapidly heading toward obscurity through no real reason other than their own. Gave Dragic that massive contract when there were reports that's the only place he wanted to play, so why not use that as leverage and see if you can get him for less? In the last few years there have only been 3 or 4 triple double games with 10 blocks and Great White has every single one of them
...but he is the guy they want to give up on
Pat Riley supposed to be some great GM but Bron aint respect him enough to give him a phone call when he left, Wade is having a covert war with him for another max extension, Dragic has been awful...I mean Danny Green bad...and now he might let one of the rarest things in the nba, a big man who can beast you on defense, the boards, and offensively, go because "he not a miami heat guy"
...somebody need to check the grease ol slickback using cause I think them chemicals have fried his brain.