The Heat is now one loss away from its first seven-game skid since late in the 2007-08 season — a season that Miami won just 15 games in.
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The Heat has posted the NBA’s worst offensive rating during this six-game slide…
The Heat has also recorded the NBA’s second-worst defensive rating…
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“There’s a feeling of discouragement when we miss an open look or a shot in our wheelhouse. ... We didn’t knock down those shots and it affects us on the other end. …this is something that we’re going to correct to be able to defend and do what we’re supposed to do with physicality, force and discipline on the defensive end of the court, regardless of what happens on the other end. That’s the definition of mental toughness.”
Spoelstra added following Saturday’s loss to the Knicks:
“Our defense, that’s the biggest takeaway right now that we’re not defending with the Miami Heat level of toughness, physicality, force and discipline to be able to win games while we’re figuring out all the rest of the stuff.”-head coach Eric Spoelstra.
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“…it’s all effort. If we don’t show enough effort on the defensive end, games like that are going to keep happening.”-team captain Bam Adebayo.
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…the Heat continues to have trouble maximizing each of its top three players — Adebayo, Butler and Tyler Herro — on the same night. The Heat is now just 5-10 in the 15 games that Adebayo, Butler and Herro have played together this season. The Big Three! 😂
I liked that Jimmy wanted to play and to win the New York game, the first time since the Dec. 16 Chicago game that I, my son, and my daughter-in-law saw in person. I liked that for the first and third quarters the rest of the team wanted to play and to win. But that was in the Garden, that was against an arch-rival; this is in Bang Bus against a foreign opponent. Who knows? Vegas has made us a 3.5 point favorite.
