With two weeks remaining within the common season, Miami Heat middle Bam Adebayo mentioned that is no time to dwell.
So from the ashes of Saturday’s disheartening residence loss to the Brooklyn Nets comes what the Miami Heat hope will likely be a highway to redemption.
“I feel like you don’t let it go,” Adebayo mentioned. “I imply, a loss remains to be a loss, you continue to give it some thought, and you’re feeling like you possibly can have achieved one thing completely different all through the sport, or how we may have achieved one thing completely different.
“You get through that by getting to the next game and winning. It changes the outlook, changes the feeling, changes how you approach the day.”
With 75 down and 7 remaining on the Heat’s regular-season schedule, pacing has grow to be an element. Sunday the staff had the day without work to take part within the staff’s Family Festival charity occasion, with solely a video session Monday.
“It’s flown by for me,” Adebayo mentioned of a schedule that started Oct. 19. “It feels like we were just at All-Star break. But what we got five games left? Seven? It’s flown by. We’ve been through ups and downs, goods and bad this year. So we’re just taking it all in with a grain of salt.”
While hoping to keep away from additional salt within the wound that was reopened Saturday, the Heat face the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday evening and the New York Knicks on Wednesday evening.
“I felt like everybody on our team goes into another day with a positive outlook,” Adebayo mentioned. “And it’s a brotherhood. You grow through what you go through. We’ve been through a lot of ups and downs this year, and including last year, ‘cause a lot of us have come back.”
For all that has gone sideways, the Heat haven’t misplaced consecutive video games since a five-game dropping streak that ran by means of Feb. 25.
“You have to embrace the struggle,” coach Erik Spoelstra mentioned. “You have to determine methods to remain collectively, keep within the saddle after which persevere. And our group has nice collective, aggressive character.
“There’s so many teams that are going through similar things. You’re dealing with a lot of competitive emotions. And then you have to perform and compete at a high level.”
An instance of the uneven outcomes this season was the Nets following up their Saturday victory in Miami with a Sunday highway loss to the lottery-bound Orlando Magic. That has the Heat and Nets tied for the No. 6 seed within the East, the ultimate direct entry into the playoffs, at 40-35, with Brooklyn proudly owning the tiebreaker.
With the Atlanta Hawks dropping Sunday evening to the Memphis Grizzlies, the Heat maintain a three-game lead for the No. 7 East seed, with the winner of the Nos. 7-8 recreation within the play-in spherical on April 11 advancing to the playoffs and the loser getting a homecourt alternative to make it to the playoffs with a victory over the No. 9-10 seed on April 14.
Family Festival
Sunday’s twenty third Miami Heat Family Festival at Miami-Dade Arena raised greater than $400,000 for the Miami Heat Charitable Fund and different native charities. It was the primary time the occasion was held since 2019, canceled within the interim by the pandemic.
“Great to see all the new families back,” mentioned Heat President Pat Riley, who was not made accessible for questions in regards to the staff. “We’ve had two generations of families. To raise a half million dollars for the causes that really help people in South Florida, especially the children and SafeSpace, is just great.”
G League playoffs
Despite ending the regular-season on a league-best six-game successful streak, the Heat’s G League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce, will start the playoffs on the highway, because the No. 5 seed within the Western Conference.
The first three rounds of the G League playoffs are single elimination, earlier than a best-of-three championship sequence. The Heat have two-way gamers Jamal Cain and Orlando Robinson with the Skyforce for the playoffs.
The Skyforce open the playoffs towards the Utah Jazz affiliate, the Salt Lake Stars, at 9:30 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday evening on NBA TV. Should Sioux Falls advance, it will play on the Sacramento Kings’ affiliate, the Stockton Kings, at 10 p.m. Thursday on NBA TV.
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