There’s a moment in Thinking Basketball’s newest video where Ben Taylor points out that the average NBA team sets 55 ball screens per 100 possessions. Memphis last year posted the lowest number ever tracked at 34.

The 2025–26 Miami Heat?

Twelve.

Twelve screens per 100 possessions. That’s not just a stylistic choice — that’s a philosophical declaration. It is the death of traditional pick-and-roll offense and the birth of “0.5 isolation,” a system where every player attacks space with a live dribble, instantly, relentlessly, without waiting for a screen to organize the defense. In a league built on choreography, Miami has gone full improv.

And tonight, with Tyler Herro expected to return, the Mavericks walk into the fire.

This Heat team doesn’t hunt mismatches; it hunts space. Spoelstr

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