The Miami Heat aren’t maxing out and that just doesn’t seem like them.
While the stats seem to want them to attack a bit more, they also say that while they look pretty good offensively now, they have a ton of room to go based on the fact that they could be squeezing a lot more juice out of the fruit relative to the rest of the league. On defense, they don’t look good, but the numbers say they are actually performing pretty well.
What that means is that if they don’t look good but are statistically performing well, is that they can be much better than they are, which is already good. This means that they have the potential to be dominant on defense if they can figure it out.
I suspect that should come with time. The overall point of it all is this though.
Not only are we wrong about what this team needs to improve upon, based on the numbers but we aren’t allowing them the necessary time to get better. The NBA has a coronavirus situation to deal with now as well.
That caused the Heat’s last scheduled game on Sunday, against the Boston Celtics, to be postponed. It’s hard not to think about if this recent stretch of events may land them back in Bubble, but that’s another story.
Back to actual court though, Jimmy Butler made comments after their last actual game played that should reverberate throughout the locker room. He spoke about how they just aren’t that good defensively right now.
I expect them to get a lot better in all phases of the game. We just have to sit back and give them time to do it.