The Miami Heat Were Beaten On Wednesday But They Didnt ‘Beat Themselves’
Now, it also doesn’t help that your starting center and second-best player in Bam Adebayo wasn’t playing, nor your third-best player in Tyler Herro.
However, you hate to use that, because the Raptors were without a couple of key guys too. However, the Miami Heat also lost their next best big in Dewayne Dedmon with about eight minutes to go in the game after he was taken out by an O.G. Anunoby knee to the tender regions.
That drastically impacted Miami, as it took their core experienced piece of size away and the guy that could have possibly secured one of those offensive boards to help the Miami Heat maintain the momentum of their comeback attempt. He was not there and they didn’t, so that is what it is at this point.
However and again, Miami Heat fans, supporters, and faithful can take solace in this fact. The Miami Heat’s eighth defeat was not like their first seven and that means all the difference in the world.
They were defeated by Toronto, mostly, by circumstance, not because they were a, flat-out, poor team on that night.