Miami Heat: Same issues continue to bite them in overtime loss to Pacers
The Miami Heat continue to allow the same issues to beat them. On Friday night, as they faced the Pacers for the first of two times in the span of three days, they allowed the Indiana Pacers to go nuclear from deep on them.
While they didn’t quite go atomic on Sunday, they still hit more than one would like them to hit, plus it allowed them to get off to a hot start. They made six threes threw the first nine minutes of play, a pace that put them on target for 32 for the game.
While they would only finish with 15 of their 45 attempts going down, good enough for a 33.3 percent shooting day from deep, that was better than the Miami Heat. They shot just 9/37 from deep, for a, far less than stellar, 24.3 percent.
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The Miami Heat continue to get beat by the same things. At some point, they have to adjust.
While the Miami Heat were more aggressive in attacking the paint overall on Sunday, they still took too many mistimed or ill-timed three point shots. They need to do a better job of selecting their looks there, for example, several of Tyler Herro‘s looks on Sunday afternoon.
On the other side of the three point line is the defense. It seems that teams just shoot better against Miami for some reason and look it up, the proof is in the numbers.
No matter what the Heat do, teams shoot really well. The Heat help and try to cover everyone, but if a offense is moving the ball, they are bound to find an open man.
The Heat also do a good job of contesting most shots, but the opposing teams are simply knocking them down against Miami. You have to chalk that up to teams being excited or up to play them, that’s all it can be.
Lastly, this Miami Heat team sucks, at best, when it comes to rebounding. Whether it be a focus each and every game or a need to go back to basics in practice, they need to work on securing the glass.
If you can’t do that, you can’t win. If you allow the opposing team enormous amounts of second chance opportunities, you can’t win.
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It’s really as simple as that. If the Miami Heat can polish up some of these fundamentals of the NBA game today, it would be a great help.