If a month ago you had told Miami Heat fans, “Miami is only going to give up 21 points against the Raptors in the first quarter,” Heat fans would have been ecstatic and would have gone, “With Miami’s offense, we’ll be up by 15 points early.” But with how things have been going, no one in Miami blinked that the Heat gave up 21 points in the first quarter against Toronto and were still losing.
Welcome to December 2025 of Miami Heat basketball, where all the goodwill built up to be on the nice list for Santa has disappeared in a heartbeat as the Heat lost to the Raptors 112-91.
The Heat gets humbled by Toronto
Toronto has just four wins over its last 12 games. Want to take a wild guess who two of those wins are over?
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Nothing went right for Miami out of the gate as Bam Adebayo was 0-3 in the first quarter, Norman Powell was 1-5, and the Heat as a whole were 1-10 from three, with Dru Smith knocking down the lone shot from deep.
And yet despite just 16 points in the first quarter, Miami “only” trailed by five points after one and “just” seven points at halftime. But nothing got better in the second half as Toronto opened up a double-digit lead that Miami never got close to even pretending to threaten.
Did we mention Toronto has just four wins in its last 12 games?
Outside of Jaime Jaquez Jr., no one seemed prepared or interested in stepping up to be the guy on Tuesday night to stop this slide. Even Kel’el Ware, who had been playing great over the last week, morphed back into the version of Ware that Erik Spoelstra keeps benching.
The fun stat of the night is that Andrew Wiggins was -27, which is now the second time in the last six games that he has been -27 on the court (12/6 against Sacramento).
Back in October, when Miami took on San Antonio, the Spurs announcers quipped, “This isn’t your grandfather’s Miami Heat,” in reference to the fact that Miami was a free-flowing offense compared to the struggles we saw to close out last season.
At this point, it is also safe to say this isn’t your grandfather’s Miami Heat, but this time around, it is an offense so devoid of creativity and identity that your grandfather himself might have a better chance of scoring than the current makeup on the court.
Miami will get coal for Christmas, then take on Atlanta on Friday for their next contest.