{"id":466948,"date":"2025-10-29T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466948"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T18:22:56","slug":"simone-fontecchio-off-to-a-strong-start-with-the-miami-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/simone-fontecchio-off-to-a-strong-start-with-the-miami-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Fontecchio off to a strong start with the Miami Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Fontecchio shared his satisfaction with the way the new NBA season has begun for him in a Miami Heat jersey:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>With this offense, thanks to the rhythm and spacing we create, I can play on instinct \u2014 everything happens so fast, and I trust my decisions and my shots. Recently, as a team, we\u2019ve set a goal: to finish defensive possessions with a rebound and not give up second chances. I think that can make the difference in such long and tough games.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Italian forward is averaging 12.8 points in 20 minutes, shooting 61% from the field, 50% from three, and 66% from the line, with an even balance between steals and turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I feel good. I feel Spoelstra\u2019s trust, as well as my teammates\u2019, and I\u2019m happy with the way I can make an impact every time I\u2019m called upon. On this team, everyone knows they can contribute.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s second unit has been one of the best in the league early in the regular season.<br \/>\nThe quartet of Fontecchio, Dru Smith, Jaime Jaquez Jr., and Nikola Jovic has posted a +59 plus\/minus in 43 minutes, the best mark in the NBA so far \u2014 a small sample size, but a clear indication of the Heat bench\u2019s strong early impact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How do you say&#8230;&#8221;not up in here&#8221; in Italian? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dDjWq4WpUY\">pic.twitter.com\/dDjWq4WpUY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiHEAT\/status\/1983329879430136241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami\u2019s second unit has been one of the best in the league early in the regular season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":466947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-466948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/simone-fontecchio-3.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466948"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=466948"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=466948"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=466948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}