Welcome to RealGM Radio. Thanks so much for tuning in. Of course, the best way to support the show is to hit that subscribe button on YouTube. Make sure you follow us on the podcast app to get the show every week today. I'll be joined by Mike Shearer to talk about some of the most impactful players added this offseason and how they could change something fundamental about their new teams. We're going to hit a bunch of names, a bunch of different teams. You're not going to want to miss it.

Let's jump in.

All right, Mike Schier is here.

He is the author of Basketball Poetry on Substack, and he's here to help me talk about identity changers. So, Mike, I did this last year. It's one of my favorite segments that I do now. It's quickly kind of getting to the top of it. And the idea is talk about new players and new places who change something fundamental

about the way a team plays.

And that could be a specific stat, a unit, a lineup, whatever.

It is purposely vague in order to maximize fun.

But what it is not, and I want to say this off the top and make it very clear, this is not a list of best free agent additions or best offseason acquisitions.

It's not enough to say that a player simply makes a team better, right?

In the instance of Kevin Durant, obviously he makes the Houston Rockets better.

Maybe he's on our list for a different reason, but just making a team better, that doesn't change like a core aspect of a team

and how that team played last season. That's not necessarily an identity changer. So I don't

want people getting mad thinking this is some kind of ranking of best offseason additions.

That is not what this is. There's no reason to get upset. And therefore, I am sure nobody ever

will get upset about this podcast. But Mike, let's jump in.

We each made our own list independent of each other. You and I were just talking. We both came up

with nine different names. Surely there will be some overlap as we go along, but we'll get to as

we can here. And you're the guest, so I'm going to let you go first. Cool. Well, first off,

thanks so much for having me.

I'm really excited to be here. I want to start, and it always makes me a little nervous to talk about a guy on a team where the person I'm talking to knows more about the team than I do. But I do want to start with a Heat Edition of Norm Powell. He was on my list. Nice. Let's go. Let's start with the heat.

So one of the things I've said for years about the heat, this is not a particularly novel thought, right? But like they just didn't have any guys who could dribble. And it sounds like a bad thing because it is. You need guys who can like create penetration who can put defenses at a disadvantage. So here's a fun staff for you. The heat's top five players last year by minutes played were Tyler Hero, Bam out of bio, Haywood Highsmith, no longer on the team. Duncan Robinson, no longer on the team. And Terry Rozier, Bams share of field goal attempts at the rim were the highest of anyone out of the group, as you'd expect from the center. And that was just 27%, which is its own conversation. We'll leave aside for now. 32-year-old Norm Powell, playing next to a non-stretch big like

Evita Zubats, got more than 28% of his shots at the rim. So just instantly, he will be better at

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