Every game counts.
That’s the message Heat center Chris Bosh has been preaching to his team recently as it slides through another losing skid. The Heat is in eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings at the start of the New Year and, with one of its most difficult stretches of the season now here, Bosh is aware already that every victory or loss could mean the difference between simply making the playoffs or not.
“I think we’re to that point right now,” Bosh said. “Before, we had the ability and that strength to just show up, and we won a lot of games by just being there. A lot of them you had to play and eventually our talent and experience would overcome everything, but I think it’s just a different thing this year.”
In other words, the days of relying on LeBron James to win games are long gone. The challenges are many facing the post-LeBron Heat, and a combination of factors, Bosh said, has made an already difficult transitional season become a nightly battle just to remain in contention for one of the last spots in the playoffs. Bosh reeled off a list of circumstances on Saturday morning after the Heat’s shootaround that had the Heat five games below .500 at the beginning of January.
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