Podcast: DEFCON 1 in Miami — How the Heat’s present has gotten dire, and its future murky
Where is there to even start when trying to explain what’s wrong with the Miami Heat?
Should we start with the underwhelming three-point defense or its own inexplicably bad three-point shooting? Should we begin with the Heat’s lack of late-game execution recently or all the different lineups and rotations that have been used because of injuries and protocol-related absences?
In a season full of new lows for the Heat, Miami found yet another one this week. The Heat started Monday with a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, who were playing without superstar forwards Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, and continued Wednesday with a blown 15-point fourth-quarter lead and 120-112 overtime loss to the Draymond Green-less Golden State Warriors.
Miami has now blown leads of 11, 13, 13, 18 and 19 this season and slipped back to 11th place in the Eastern Conference. On a new episode of the Heat Check podcast, David Wilson and Anthony Chiang, the Miami Herald’s Heat beat writer, take a way-too-long deep dive on everything going wrong for the Heat this season and what Miami can do to fix it.
Listen below.
This story was originally published February 18, 2021 at 1:56 PM.
