ASK IRA: Is Kel’el Ware vs. Thomas Bryant even a Heat debate at this stage?

Q: Are we done with playing Thomas Bryant over Kelel Ware? A.M.

A: More likely neither plays in the primary rotation if the rest of the rotation is healthy, with Kevin Love, at least at the start of the season, the backup to Bam Adebayo, and Nikola Jovic the other big body for the power rotation.

Plus, the Heat, with their abundance of wings, likely will play plenty of smallball.

Also, do not overstate the numbers of Kelel Ware against third-string preseason players in Tuesday nights exhibition loss in Charlotte.

Some of whom Kelel thrived against wont even be in the NBA this season.

When Erik Spoelstra throws Kelel in against legitimate NBA players, only then will we get a truer read.

For now a waiting game, with a breakthrough still possible at some point during the season.

Related Articles Q: Ira, noticed Nassir Little did not play in Charlotte.

Wouldnt Erik Spoelstra want to see as much of him as possible? Mitchell.

A: First, Erik Spoelstra sees more of his end-of-roster players in camp and practice than he would in exhibitions, anyway.

Plus, with the compact preseason the Heat now face, with four exhibitions in six days starting Sunday against the Pelicans, there will not only be ample time to cycle through rotations, but a need to utilize just about all available in order to limit the wear on the rotation players.

All of that said, Nassir Little remains a longshot for the opening-night roster, simply because of where the Heat stand hard up against the second apron of the luxury tax.

Yes, the Heat have the room, with a vacant 15th standard roster spot, to keep Nassir on a pay-by-the-day basis at the start of the season.

But why use up such days at the start of the season when they would be more valuable during the playoff race? Still, there remains time for a Little statement before the Oct.

21 NBA cutdown deadline.

Q: Wow, the NBA general managers evaluation of our talent is pretty low, it seems.

Eric.

A: Actually, the question asked in the NBAs poll of general managers was which teams will finish in the top four in the East.

To that end, can anyone anyone definitively say at this stage the Heat is such a team? The poll was not about the order of finish in the East, with the Heat therefore not among the teams listed.

The goal for the Heat, at least at this stage, would be to finish among the top four in the conference and get homecourt in the first round.

While that is a challenge when considering Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Milwaukee it still potentially could be attainable if things break the right way..

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