QUIZ wrote:I honestly feel like I’m being gaslit. My timeline is full of sky is falling down tweets from none Heat sources. I looked it up, we are 15-6 since February, second best record in the East and actually on pace for 58 wins which is higher than where we’ll likely end up.
Reading the timeline though you’d think the Heat are in a tough spot and the sky is falling down. Congrats to the Sixers for stealing a game without their stars. We literally did the same thing a few months ago spear headed by Gabe Vincent.
Difference is that our team isn’t currently tanking for the 4th seed.
To be fair, I think people are going full tilt because they don't trust this team.
A couple of things that stand out that cause our fan base not to trust this team:
1. We are a first seed, not on track to hit 60+ wins which is usually the cut off for 74% winning percentage for a guarantee at a title.
- We are on track for 50-54 wins, so were on the low end of first seeds in the history of wins.
- A testament to how great the Eastern conference is, which means this significantly drops our chances and makes the path that
much more difficult.
2. Our offensive point differential for a first seed is not favorable, which means we struggle to put teams away.
- This is part to do with our inability to close out games in the 4th when coming from behind or playing tight.
- Our starters are constantly lacking offensive fire power, and too many games more than half actually the bench saves us.
- In the playoffs where teams focus on our weaknesses our issues will be magnified, and the rotations shortened which means
less
bench minutes for our shooters who are a necessary part of our offensive game.
3. We are only as good as our collective, which means any one of Bam, Jimmy, Tyler don't bring it means we will struggle.
- We also need our three point shooters to hit because it actually makes our offense flow correctly, we don't have a go to half
court execution when our team isn't hitting threes.
- We don't have a superstar who can close out the game when we need a bucket, at least not yet. Jimmy is not that guy
anymore, and Tyler can only do it depending on matchup.
- We have not been so overwhelmingly dominant to scare other teams, right now teams actually want to match up with us.
- During some of the moments our main players have been injured our supporting players have played above their limitations
and produced at levels were seeing them come back to earth now which masked some of those wins.
4. Somebody made a comparison the other day that had me thinking, said were so similar to the Indiana Pacers we played against
during the Lebron, Wade, Bosh days.
- I thought about it, and realized this is very close, we have a collective of talent who when playing together is dangerous but
will never have the overwhelming offensive talent to win it all.
- We are not the san Antonio spurs or the Detroit pistons who went on to win it.
- I hope I'm wrong, and were gonna put this all together, but right now even in wins the confidence is not there.
3ammy3uck3ts wrote:twix2500 wrote:Heat offense rank
14th in the 1st quarter
5th in the 2nd quarter
14th in the 3rd quarter
23rd in the 4th quarter.
AirP you are good at filtering stats. What does the Heat offense rank in the last 5 mins of the fourth quarter?
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5th worst I believe
brother you’re out of your league here, sit this one out.