Podcast: Heat opens key road trip with impressive win. And what’s up with Winslow’s shot?
We have had this road trip circled for a little while for the Miami Heat. A three-game swing against three Eastern Conference playoff teams began in style Sunday when the Heat scored the final 10 points to rally for a 109-106 win against the Brooklyn Nets in New York.
It was gruesome at times — Miami shot worse than 40 percent from the field — and the Nets didn’t have Kyrie Irving, but it was one of the Heat’s most impressive wins of the season.
David Wilson and Anthony Chiang, the Miami Herald’s Heat beat writer, kick off the latest episode of the Heat Check podcast by discussing why the victory was so important for Miami at this early juncture of the season, and then we look ahead to the rest of the three-game trip. The Heat plays the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics on back-to-back nights, Tuesday and Thursday. The results will give us a real idea of where Miami stands in the East pecking order as the year nears its end.
From there, it’s a little bit of a grab-bag episode. We get into some rotation talk now that the Heat has forwards Justise Winslow, Dion Waiters and Derrick Jones Jr. all back. We might have finally gotten an idea of what Miami’s crunch-time lineup looks like Sunday since the Heat finally played a close game in Brooklyn. Miami finally got to close a competitive game with Winslow, guard Goran Dragic, wing Jimmy Butler, swingman Duncan Robinson and post player Bam Adebayo, and it helped the Heat secure a big win.
We rap up with a brief mailbag segment, taking a couple good questions from Chiang’s Twitter followers. What’s going on with Winslow’s jump shot? And what is Adebayo going to do about defenses which sag way off him like the Nets and Philadelphia 76ers have done?
Miami is in for a big week and we’re attacking it from every angle.
This story was originally published December 2, 2019 at 11:39 AM.
