Miami Heat’s ‘Average’ Game 5 Shows Just How Bad Games 3 and 4 Were

Miami Heat: An ‘Average’ Or Above Game 6 Should Be Enough To Get It Done

However and in accordance with the belief around these parts, numbers without context are meaningless. The context here is this.

In one, another, or multiple areas of their game, the Miami Heat were below average in their performance across their two defeats. In Game 5, they were just average or ever so slightly above average in most areas.

That leads to this thought. The Miami Heat have had to play a below-average brand of the ball compared to that in which they played all year long to lose to the Philadelphia 76ers twice in a row in this series, on the road nonetheless.

And while it doesn’t prove this point concretely, it’s safe to say that if they just show up and be average or above, they should stand a really good chance to close the door on the Philadelphia 76ers as soon as Thursday in Game 6.

Now, of course, we’d like extraordinary, as far as the team’s performance relative to their averages but as long as they can get a victory, everyone will take what they can get.