The Miami Heat couldn’t beat ‘em. But they’d nonetheless like to hitch ‘em.
If there’s a template for achievement over the second half of the season, the Heat hope to mannequin it after the revival of the Brooklyn Nets.
With Sunday’s victory over the Heat at FTX Arena, the Nets made it 14 victories of their final 15 video games, skyrocketing to the highest of the Eastern Conference.
With the loss, the Heat fell to a middling 21-20 on the midpoint of their schedule.
“Look,” coach Erik Spoelstra stated, “we don’t need to look any additional than the group over there. It was a seven-week stretch that they’ve actually turned it on and so they went from September 11 to principally a recreation away from being on the prime of the convention.
“So things can happen quickly in this conference because it is so competitive and everybody is bunched up. You have to put together weeks of good basketball. I think we’re starting to do that and then the next challenge will be to do it consistently and for it to translate into wins.”
Part II of the Heat schedule begins Tuesday night time towards the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder.
Forward Jimmy Butler, whose potential game-winning drive was off at Sunday’s buzzer, additionally pointed to the Nets concerning how shortly it could flip.
“We’re good,” he stated. “We take pleasure in being round each other. I do know that we’re going to determine it out. It’s solely a matter of time. But this can be a step in the proper route.
“Even though we did not win [Sunday], I think we can learn from it and we will be better moving forward. It’s a new year. We’re getting guys back healthy. We’re going to be straight.”
Health, although, stays a problem, with middle Bam Adebayo coping with hand and thigh points, guard Tyler Herro showing to harm his knee Sunday, and beginning energy ahead Caleb Martin lacking 4 of the previous six video games attributable to a quadriceps pressure.
“Our record is what it is,” Adebayo stated. “I do really feel like we’re attending to that time the place it’s extra profitable streaks than dropping streaks. I really feel like all people is attending to the purpose the place all people is aware of the place they’re presupposed to be.
“I feel like once we get fully healthy, the rotation will be known and we can get to the point where instead of being in these close games, it would be seven- to 10-point leads and we walk off with a win.”
Spoelstra stated there’s an optimism about what’s about to comply with.
“I feel something, that it’s been happening for the last three weeks or so,” Spoelstra stated “Now we have now to translate that into wins in some unspecified time in the future.
“But I feel much better about our identity and how we’re playing with both units. We’re getting a lot more consistent play and you can see that it’s real.”
So, no, not adequate.
But with a way of sufficient good to be higher.
“I think we’re kind of understanding what we need to do to win games,” guard Kyle Lowry stated. “I feel we’ve had a pair unhealthy bounces right here and there, however we acquired to simply proceed to get higher on each ends of the ground.
“Defensively and offensively, we got to just continue to get better. We’re at the halfway point of the season, now we got to find a way to string some wins together and kind of just continue to build.”
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