The Son of the Devil: Doug Lambier

Coach Spoelstra had no plans to use Doug Lambier.

The Heat had originally signed him only because Adebayo was injured, giving him a 10-day contract.

Later, Adebayo recovered and returned to the team, and the Heat no longer needed Doug.

After all, they already had Dedmon, a 7-foot-1 backup center;

They also had Omer, a 6-foot-11 third-string center.

Doug Lambier could only be considered their fourth-string center.

He was only 6-foot-10, not as tall as the others, not as fast, and couldn't jump as high.

Naturally, he had no chance of getting any playing time.

But with the Playoffs approaching, the Heat wanted to guard against Adebayo getting injured again.

In the end, they renewed Doug Lambier's contract through the end of the season.

Put simply, he'd only get a chance to come off the bench if both the first- and second-string centers were unavailable.

So Coach Spoelstra naturally didn't consider him.

While the coaching staff discussed these things, over at the Heat's Training Hall,

All the players were working on defensive drills.

The focus was on how to defend Wang Yi.

But these drills were giving the Heat players a serious headache.

With an ordinary player, you only had to defend from the half-court line to the basket.

Most of the time, you only had to defend from the three-point line to the basket.

But Wang Yi had forced the Heat to stretch their defensive line across the entire court.

Twenty-eight meters.

How the hell were they supposed to defend a line that long?

It was a problem the Heat had never faced before.

It was a problem the entire history of world basketball had never faced before.

There was no way the Heat could solve it in a short time.

Butler and Lowry were doing their best to