Saturday, January 21, 2023

“We didn’t get better.”

Erik Spoelstra laments Heat’s ‘wasted day’ in Dallas, as theme of inconsistency continues


With just 35 games remaining on the regular-season schedule and ground to make up in the Eastern Conference standings after a slow start, the Miami Heat doesn’t have much time to waste.
“What was disappointing about tonight is it was just a wasted day. We didn’t get better. We don’t have a lot of days to kick down the road like that.”-Erik Spoelstra.

What once could be labeled as early-season struggles has turned into an ongoing theme of maddening inconsistency that could quickly become what defines the Heat’s 2022-23 season… 
one thing the Heat hasn’t done during this stretch is earn many quality wins, taking advantage of a soft spot in its schedule during this 20-game span. Of the Heat’s 13 wins during this stretch, nine came against teams that entered Saturday with a sub-.500 record and one came against a team that entered Saturday with a .500 record.

[At 25-22 the team’s decimal win percentage is .532, .539 since LBJ left. Maybe that’s just who they are? That is what that says.]