The Miami Heat are coming off of a horrendous four-game stretch. For starters losing four straight contests at any point in the season is terrible and doesn’t bode well for your chances of further success.
However, that’s made especially the case at this particular time of the season for Miami, just seven games or so away from the postseason. To put it lightly, the Miami Heat have hit a heinous bump in the road.
A trend across this four-game skid, other than the Brooklyn drubbing on Saturday night, is that the opposition hasn’t had their best players in the lineup when facing the Heat. The 76ers were without Joel Embiid and James Harden.
The Golden State Warriors were without three of their top guys as well, with Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, and Stephen Curry all being out.
The Miami Heat face another team on Monday that won’t play their best players. Are they looking at a ‘Groundhog Day’ scenario with the Kings?
Julius Randle didn’t go for a Knicks squad that totally flipped the script late on a Heat team with a big lead down the stretch. Well, in an ode to the Bill Murray classic, Groundhog Day, it’s happening all over again on Monday.
Welcoming in the Sacramento Kings to the FTX Arena, the Miami Heat will face a Kings lineup that will be without a couple of key guys. More interesting—or ominous in the Heat’s case over their last four games, their top two players won’t be going for them.
That would be their point guard, De’Aaron Fox, and their newly acquired big man, Domantas Sabonis.
Kings injury report for Monday at Heat:
— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) March 27, 2022
Terence Davis, Out, wrist
De'Aaron Fox, Out , hand
Richaun Holmes, Out, personal reasons
Domantas Sabonis, Out, knee https://t.co/oiEK9gCbB2
The Miami Heat know they have to improve from their last four showings and fast. Kyle Lowry and Jimmy Butler, among others, would say as much following the massive no-show to Brooklyn.
Though they are totally supposed to defeat this Kings team and especially without the guys that won’t be going for them in the game, the Miami Heat would serve themselves well to come out and look like a competent and collective team.
You know that they are and can, as they have way more than they haven’t this year. It’s just that after these four games and with the playoffs being so close, it needs to happen now.
They don’t have much, if any, time to spare.