The Miami Heat weren’t able to secure a victory in their last game, falling back to one game below .500 after just getting back there in a crucial victory over the Suns Monday night. Playing across the border to the north, they would face a very familiar foe.
In an always highly contested game against the Toronto Raptors, a team that, not only, knows the Miami Heat well and has ties, sort of, to the organization, but they are a team that is consistently and fundamentally built to be able to perfectly counter what the Miami Heat do.
The Miami Heat want to outwork you, out-scheme you, and out-discipline you with their defensive principles, along with ball and man movement on offense.
If all of the guys are between 6’7-6’9, outside of Fred VanVleet, which the majority of Toronto’s guys tend to be, then they can switch most everything on defense, have less of a chance to be confused due to that switchability and capability of them all to do very similar things, and all while they are the ideal body to physical specimen archetypes for today’s NBA.