Miami Heat fans have a piling on problem but patience is a prerequisite

The Miami Heat aren’t at the peak of their powers yet in this still young season. With many coronavirus health and safety protocols related absences and a few other injury related absences to contend with, I still contest that we have to be patient enough to wait for our complete team and starting unit, specifically, to play two complete weeks of basketball together before we make a judgement.

However, a ton of us seem to not be able to do that. When there is a bad game played or a bad stretch, even as early as this is in the season, we as Miami Heat fans tend to begin to freak out.

Most often, it manifests itself in blame. We just have to have someone or someone to blame the loss, deficiency, or disappointment on.

Miami Heat fans love to play the blame game but we have to stop piling on, erroneously.

In most cases, it’s one specific player on the team on any given night. If you take a gander at social media during a Miami Heat game, you would find all sorts of explanations, complaints, gripes, and reverse-scouting reports on which Heat player is stinking it up and why he’s the reason that the team is losing.

Here’s the thing though. It’s rare that one player and one player alone is the sole reason why the team is losing.

Most often, it’s a result of a multitude or the whole team, for that matter, being bad or less than crisp. That’s just the truth.

In example, over the last few games you have heard the blame tossed around to players like Gabe Vincent and Kelly Olynyk. These are probably the same people who wondered why Kendrick Nunn was in the game three games ago, after spending most of the bubble last season, this offseason, and the earliest part of this year bashing him too.

The overall point of it all is to say this though. As fans, we have to realize that we aren’t going to win every game.

We also have to understand that metrics and numbers don’t tell the whole story of what a player is doing on the floor. You have to be able to take those numbers and use them to validate or invalidate what your eyes are seeing.

Lastly, we have to realize that when there is a bad play or a constant weakness being attacked, those responsibilities or those deficiencies are, more often than not, the results of multiple people’s screw ups, not just one. So, yes we do have a piling on problem but with a little patience, which is necessary, things will work out just how they are supposed to be.

That, hopefully, is with the Miami Heat in playoff contention and fighting for the East as the year ends