Miami Heat: Is Current Officiating Benefitting This Year’s Team?
With the way that games are being officiated right now in the NBA, some teams and players have been negatively impacted, but how about the Miami Heat? How have they fared with the way the game has been called?
If you aren’t aware (which would be astonishing if you are an NBA fan), the referees have allowed a bit more physicality this season, which has also come with a less-generous whistle on foul drawing antics.
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NBA Shooting Coach, Lethal Shooter, had a great summation of what he’s seen. It comes via an episode of the UNINTERRUPTED podcast, Certified Buckets, that featured known Miami Heat fan, Rick Ross.
"I’m not trying to say NBA players aren’t hungry, but I feel like when the NBA was officiating so soft they were, all due respect, prima donnas because they were always expecting the foul. We see now by the lack of whistles being blown, the game has been elevated to a level we can honestly say – this is like the early 90s and early 2000s in terms of how hard these guys were playing basketball.”"
How does that all apply to the Heat though?