Miami Heat: Is Current Officiating Benefitting This Year’s Team?

When you think about it all conclusively though, it has no choice but to benefit the Miami Heat, even with the limitations for a guy like Kyle Lowry.

That’s because the Heat play a brand of basketball that lends itself towards physicality and all of those things that can be impacted by the ref’s whistle. Here’s a fun fact and a nugget that hints at that point.

The Miami Heat lead the league in charges drawn by nearly a charge per game. In terms of the raw numbers, they sit at 23, while the next nearest team comes in at 16 (Brooklyn).

When the referees aren’t rewarding the floppy antics, then those types of things are more prone to being effective and rewarded, in one example. All in all, it’s hard to say right now because you never know if the officiating will continue, but you can say certain things.

It has it’s positives and it’s negatives for the Miami Heat. But because of how they play, this type of officiating shouldn’t ever kill them.