NBA players with the largest regressions in 2024-25

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2023-24 statistics and awards: 19.3 ppg, 10.4 RPG, 3.9 APG, 0.9 BPG, 52.1 FG%, All-Star, 3rd in the defensive player of the year vote

2024-25 statistics: 17.5 ppg, 9.9 RPG, 4.3 APG, 0.7 BPG, 48.7 FG%

After you have decided not to extend the six-time all-star Jimmy Butler Last summer this Miami Heat season was a ticking time bomb from the start. And we all know how this story ended when Butler finally demanded a trade and received and left his wish Bam Adebayo And Tyler Herro the team’s alphas.

It didn’t go well for Miami.

In particular, Adebayo, which is blessed with a lot of talent and versatility, but possibly the confidence in the trust of being the number 1 of a team on the offensive has seen a regression in this game in this campaign.

Adebayos BPM dropped from 2.4 last season to 1.5 this year, while his WS/48 rose from 0.144 to 0.127. Perhaps the Olympic Games are partly responsible for Adebayo’s battles in the early season, which have burdened its overall average for 2024-25, but there is no question that the talented great man has to struggle on the offensive in the absence of Butler.

Adebayo himself recently said that he was going through growing pain because it has never been just he and Herro to run a team (about the Miami Herald):

Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro are two of the longest -based Miami Heat players on the squad. But Adebayo and Herro also go through an adaptation time after the departure of Jimmy Butler. Instead of leading and next to Butler as a trio next to the square, Adebayo and Herro are a leading duo today after the heat exchanged the angered butler with the Golden State Warriors on February 6th. “This is the first situation it is that it was really only me and Tyler. I obviously mean the addition of (Andrew Wiggins), but we are still trying to make Wiggs comfortable where it can be full. At the moment we just hold it for him and only for him, and only if he gets out of the way.

Miami is currently 28-39 and has lost seven games in a row.

Adebayo’s largest dip was efficiency as a short shooter in the middle area, which used to be his sweet spot. Last season, the former outstanding Kentucky shot 51.5 percent between three and 10 feet of the basket. This campaign has dropped to 45.2 percent.

If you consider that Adebayo is under limit and often has to step out of the short midrange over larger centers, this area from this area was quite harmful for its offensive in 2024-25.

Perhaps it will help Adebayo to return next season if he knows that he has to deal with a large part of Miami’s offensive cargo.

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