The Miami Heat took an ugly defeat on Friday night at the hands of the Indiana Pacers. While the Pacers came out ready to play, engaged, and obviously more ready to beat the Heat than the Heat were to beat them, the Miami Heat didn’t realize they had a game on their hands until it was too late.
Even still though, amongst all of that, the Miami Heat had their opportunities to pull the game back close. That’s when their offense began to fail them again.
That’s also when you started to see or hear an all too familiar refrain from those that support the Miami Heat. After rooting for weeks like mad people, as these same guys helped the Heat pull back to within relevance, they are now, somehow, not good enough.
Well, that isn’t the case at all. The grand point of it all is this.
The Miami Heat’s issues aren’t talent related at all. Their issues revolve more around their approach from play to play or game to game.
The Miami Heat aren’t consistent in their approach from game to game and it shows.
The Miami Heat have been a jump shooting team since last season, at least, as that can be admitted. However, they have gotten to the point where they absolutely fall in love with the outside shot and so much so, that they completely forget to attack the hoop.
When Jimmy Butler attacks the hoop, no one can stop him. When Kendrick Nunn was rolling beautifully over the past few weeks before his recent slump, he was mixing it up, shooting with touch and driving with ferocity.
Goran Dragic is one of the best finishers in traffic in the league, yes, the entire league. Tyler Herro has to get back to attacking the rim to finish strong and not just to finish.
His ability to convert on the craziest of attempts in the past have almost tricked him into thinking anything he throws up there will fall. They simply have to get back to attacking the hoop, as the jumper isn’t working and will probably fall more once they supplement it with consistent drives.
That stands for all the guys on the team. They have to feel as strongly about the attack as they do about settling.
That’s what the issue is. It isn’t about the players not on the roster, it’s about the mentality of those that are.