Miami Heat: Let me tell you why they can sustain their recent hot shooting

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To look even deeper and in a more nuanced fashion from a relative perspective, the answer is still yes. Over their past five games and with four wins might I add, including the monsoon of three-balls from the most recent Orlando game, the Miami Heat Heat have shot 82-170 from distance or 48.2 percent. That is nearly 13 percentage points higher than the league average of 35.8 percent from deep.

What this means is that even if the Heat drop off from where they have been of recent, an absurd shooting number from distance but one we will take and greatly appreciate if it keeps up, they should still be above league average. What this means when looking further into the actual question is that yes they can sustain hot shooting and even with a dropoff of sorts, although the astronomical numbers they’ve been at might not sustain.

While the Miami Heat are in a good place as far as the Eastern Conference Playoff picture goes, they can still jump up in the standings with a good close to the season. Even if their hot shooting cools off a bit, they should still have a chance to make that jump and subsequently make noise in the playoffs. This is because a dropoff for them in that department isn’t a good shooting team going bad, but an astronomically absurd shooting team regressing to just being really good.