The NBA playoffs will force teams and players to adjust from series to series and game to game. Just ask Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro.
On the Miami Heat’s way to the Eastern Conference finals for the second time in the last three seasons, Adebayo and Herro were pushed out of their comfort zones in the second round of the playoffs against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The switchable Adebayo went from guarding every player on the court to spending nearly the entirety of the final two games of the series as All-Star center and MVP runner-up Joel Embiid’s primary defender. And Herro went from averaging the most shot attempts per game on the team in the regular season to playing as more of a facilitator in the second round because the 76ers decided to relentlessly trap him for most of the series.
