Miami Heat Weaknesses That Need To Be Addressed Before NBA Playoffs
By Noah Decker
Miami Heat: Weaknesses To Address Before NBA Playoffs- Consistent Scoring
The Miami Heat are about in the middle of the pack when it comes to team scoring. When you consider only playoff teams, they sink a little bit more towards the bottom.
Consistent Scoring
That isn’t a huge problem when you play with as great of a defense as Miami does, meaning you hold your opponents to a lower scoring effort, thus alleviating the need to be the best scorers out there.
The major issue is that their scoring generally only comes from a handful of players. Jimmy Butler is very reliable, Bam is generally reliable, Herro has become very consistent as a scorer off the bench, and Kyle Lowry has stepped up recently over his last eight games or so, looking to be getting into a playoff mode.
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Aside from those four players though, the Heat have needed to rely on other players having a good night to shoulder the rest of the scoring load.
Usually, someone has stepped up for Miami and this is not an issue. We have seen Duncan Robinson, Max Strus, and many other players have great games for the Heat when their regulars needed a hand.
However, this is not always the case. The problem becomes even worse if one of those players is missing from the rotation.
Without Tyler Herro, the Heat have a huge problem with scoring in their second unit. He always provides a spark by scoring in bunches.
When Herro does not play, that scoring is lost. There isn’t too much that can be done to fix this issue.
The best thing Miami can do to address their lack of consistent scoring is to keep everyone healthy and to make sure that they continue to play lockdown defense. When they play that way, they score off of opponent turnovers in transition and limit their opponent to a low-scoring game.
That is a recipe for victory.