The Miami Heat are back on track. The Heat have had a very rough start to the NBA season with many players out of the lineup due to injury and COVID protocols. Our best player Jimmy Butler was out for a good stretch of games as well, hence why he wasn’t named an NBA all-star. The Heat’s record was as bad as 7-14 at one point and the team looked like a disaster. Getting Butler back and other key players helped the Heat look like the team from last year that made the NBA finals. Since Butler has returned from COVID protocols the Heat are 10-5 and now have a record of 16-17 and stand at 5th place in the Eastern Conference, not far behind the top of the pack. The Heat had their best-looking game of the season last game where they defeated the team with the best record in the league, the Utah Jazz, by a score of 124-116. The Heat were missing two key players in Tyler Herro and Avery Bradley, but it didn’t matter. The Jazz had won 23 of their last 25 games going into the game, but the Heat knew that they could take them down if they played to their potential.
The Miami Heat are now on a 5 game win streak (the second-longest current streak in the NBA) and are finding their groove. As a huge Heat fan, I was worried and frustrated during the start of the season. Now, I can relax knowing we have the potential to make it back to the finals and even win it all. Taking down the hottest team in the league on our win streak will give us all the confidence to keep winning.
The only concern I have for the rest of our season is that I feel like we need another big man that can help support our star Bam Adebayo in the frontcourt. I think the Heat needs to trade Kelly Olynyk along with other assets to get a big man who can free up space for Bam and crash the boards. Olynyk is a very aggressive player, but I just think he makes too many dumb decisions in a game and it is getting hard for me to watch him. I am excited to see how the rest of our season turns out! Do you think the Heat can make it back to the finals this year and even win it all?
This is really funny to read after the Heat traded Leonard. But you're definitely right. Even a month later, the Heat still need other players to help Butler and Adebayo. They're even talking about a Lowry-Herro/Robinson trade with the Raptors, which I don't think is what they need.
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