Playing with a consistent fire, intense and focused, in the regular season, followed by a deep run in the playoffs—that is physically and mentally draining for an over-achieving team. The “Heat” this season are just shot, they are not getting younger, and they didn’t get better in the off-season. This team just cannot impose its will on opponents as it did last season. It was too much to ask of them. They have quality pieces for another deep Eastern run when they have been refreshed and injected with other pieces but even when the stars align this is just not a championship team, probably not an Eastern Conference winner. They don’t have enough and they gave so much to get as far as they did last season. You just can’t expect this team, with this talent, to do that again.