avoid the “play-in” box
« Our coach talks about it every day. » Tyler Herro and his teammates seem to understand what the goal of Erik Spoelstra and the Heat staff is for the rest of the season: to finish in the top 6 in the East and thus not have to go through the “play-in”.
« So as players, especially Bam (Adebayo) and I, especially the two of us who have been here for a while, we want to get out of the game zone. This is our goal. This is our first goal. We have quite a few, but this is the first », shows the back of the Heatauthor of 14 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds last night’s win against the Grizzlies.
Hero knows the subject well: for the past three seasons, his team has had to go through this qualifying stage before reaching the playoffs. Including the famous 2023 epic ending in the NBA Finals, lost to the Nuggets. Despite three successful experiences, Miami would like to avoid going through these additional knockout rounds again.
Almost the same record as the Sixers
« We are focused on that, obviously we know what to do. No one will come to help us. It all depends on us: to control what we can collectively, and to do our best to give ourselves a chance to get out of there », shows Norman Powell, who would like other teams “ crack a little » while the heat « shifts gear to lower wins ».
It’s more or less the trend of the moment. Miami (31w-27d) currently ranks 7th with almost the same winning percentage as the Sixers (30w-26d) ahead. Up and coming Philly players to achieve the 4th defeat in a rowwhen the Heat are on a 3-game winning streak.
« We are focused on how we play and how we have to compete every night. It doesn’t matter which team is facing you or where they are in the standings. It is important to produce basketball that satisfies us, to go out on the court and look for these victories ,” aimed at Powell, whose team, after a trip to Milwaukee on Tuesday, heads … to Philadelphia on Thursday.
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | That | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Ft | Pts |
| Norman Powell | 47 | 30:26 | 47.6 | 39.2 | 83.0 | 0.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 22.9 |
| Tyler Herro | 13 | 30:23 | 49.5 | 36.0 | 91.7 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 21.5 |
| Bam Adebayo | 50 | 31:12 | 44.6 | 33.6 | 77.6 | 2.0 | 7.8 | 9.8 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 18.3 |
| Andrew Wiggins | 52 | 31:09 | 47.6 | 40.7 | 77.9 | 1.8 | 3.3 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 16.1 |
| Jaime Jaquez Jr. | 53 | 28:43 | 50.4 | 25.7 | 75.2 | 1.4 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.0 | 15.1 |
| Kel’el Ware | 54 | 22:12 | 52.8 | 40.4 | 78.1 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 9.4 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 11.4 |
| Pelle Larsson | 47 | 24:20 | 49.9 | 32.3 | 76.2 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 10.3 |
| Davion Mitchell | 47 | 28:50 | 47.0 | 40.0 | 66.0 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 7.0 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 2.7 | 9.0 |
| Simone Fontecchio | 55 | 17:02 | 39.2 | 35.8 | 83.1 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 8.5 |
| Nikola Jovic | 45 | 17:35 | 37.0 | 27.2 | 68.3 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 7.5 |
| Drew Smith | 57 | 17:04 | 40.7 | 30.4 | 84.0 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 6.0 |
| Kaspars Iakoutionis | 31 | 17:12 | 40.9 | 45.3 | 90.3 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 5.8 |
| Myron Gardner | 28 | 9:32 | 47.7 | 40.4 | 73.7 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 4.2 |
| Keshad Johnson | 23 | 7:08 | 41.3 | 32.0 | 76.5 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 3.2 |
| Jahmir Young | 8 | 5:30 | 36.8 | 28.6 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.1 |
| Vladislav Goldin | 2 | 4:00 am | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
| Trevor Keels | 1 | 2:00 am | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
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