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Quietly, the Heat have climbed to the top of the Eastern Charts.
The Nets and Bulls both lost the game yesterday, and after the Heat's victory over the Lakers, the top position in the Eastern Conference seemed to take turns, changing hands three times a week, which returned to the Heat.
So it's time to talk about this "hidden" Heat team.
This season, the Heat are probably one of the strongest teams with the lowest presence, and if you add an Eastern definite word to the strong team, you can almost remove "one".
This season in the East, when it comes to the most surprising teams, you will think of the Bulls who once topped the Eastern Conference or the Cavaliers with three high inside the interior, the former with full sentiment and the latter with distinctive characteristics.
When it comes to traffic, whether Harden is epic or not, Irving is not vaccinated, durant is tired, etc., is enough for fans and media to nag from the beginning of the season to the end of the season, without repetition; and then can not take the philadelphia and Simmons stories indiscriminately.
When it comes to defending champions, the Bucks are there, and with the recent vicious storm, the crusade almost bursts the Bucks' discussion forum.
What's more, the east has not been the focus of public opinion from beginning to end, and the west is the real traffic password.
As a result, the Heat is rarely put on the topic of discussion. One is not supergiant, the other is no focus, the heroism pursued by all the people and the fans is far from the same, so it is often not mentioned, even if they have won 7 of the last 9 games, the attention is not high.
Just like the Heat's game against the Lakers, Butler got a triple-double with 20 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists, in addition to getting the 10th triple-double of the Heat's career, surpassing James's record of becoming the triple-double king in team history, which data is not outstanding.
After all, this is an era when triple-doubles are "played badly", and cutting 30+ triple-doubles may make fans stay a little longer to look at the news.
The performance of the Heat team often makes the ball critics the most headache. Just like playing the Lakers, 19 points ahead of the Lakers before the last quarter, and only in the third quarter was officially used up by the first suspension of the whole team, and the Lakers only had 2 suspensions left at the moment, playing a critical moment.
So the traffic naturally rushed towards Tucker Jr.'s sideline ball, and as for the Heat commentator's high-level commentary that "the Lakers' defense is like practicing social distancing", it is difficult for fans to remember.
But the Heat didn't seem to care, Butler seemed to be Zhang Mazi who had just arrived in Goose City, and he opened his mouth with three sentences: "Low-key!" Low profile! Or TMD low key! ”
But if you're a Heat fan, you'd like someone to blow this team. Although this team is quiet, they have survived even more difficulties than others think.
Just to say one stat, the Heat 'Big Three' Lowry, Butler and Adebayor have only played 14 games at the same time, and Butler and Adebayo have missed a total of 42 games.
Coupled with the absence of Lowry and Hiro, the Heat have almost no game to call the whole team in order. But it is such a Heat that not only did not collapse, but even temporarily ranked first in the East in terms of record.
You know, Lowry + Butler + Adebayo are the team's assist king, scoring king and rebound king respectively, and the salary adds up to $91 million.
Stranded on other teams, one less team would collapse in half. For example, in the 17 games that the Lakers lacked thick eyebrows, the old comrade James averaged 32.5 points, 9.3 rebounds, 5.8 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.2 blocks per game, which could not save the team, and the record was only 7 wins and 10 losses that made lakers fans always have quick-acting heart-saving pills.
As a result, Coach Spoo waved his hand and said, "I can fight without them." ”
Doesn't that sound outrageous? Although the description is a bit exaggerated, the heat presents a game that is generally like this.
According to the statistics of the data website, there are 11 players in the Heat lineup who have played at least 500 minutes this season, and 10 of them are more effective on the court than the league average.
The only below-average was goal scorer Duncan Robinson, who wasn't too bad considering the lack of superstar containment.
And this statistic is in the league, only two teams can do this, except for the Spurs, the Heat.
If you look at the Heat's playing time, in addition to the familiar starting Five and Tucker, the players who have played the most are players like Strus, Caleb Martin, Gabb Vincent, and Jurte Cervine.
It is normal not to hear their names, because these players are basically all lost drafts, and the small transparency in the league has been transformed by Coach Spoo into an offensive efficiency above the middle of the league, which is still a weapon to take advantage of.
At the beginning of the season, many people worried that trading Dragic and Achuva sent by Lowry would weaken the depth of the team's bench, but this group of unknown players was alive and well.
Caleb Martin even said: "This is the team I have ever had the best depth of the squad. Every player in the team is good and everyone can contribute. ”
But can you believe that the team with the best squad depth martin said, the players commonly used on the bench, may not be as good as a little Horton Tucker?
Yurt Severn is a case in point, when Riley gave him a two-year, $3.6 million contract at the beginning of the season, people always suspected that his technique was too rough.
But Riley said, "Jurt Severn is another major discovery by Adam Simon [Vice President of Heat Basketball Operations and Assistant General Manager]. He will continue to improve around Adebayor, playing as a center forward and a big forward. He has shown himself self-motivated, and he will take his level to another level. ”
Adebayor was obviously not much older, but he became a young mentor for young players. As a result, Yurt Severn grabbed at least 12 rebounds in 10 consecutive games, breaking the Heat's all-time record.
At this time, the veteran Tucker stood up and spoke: "Yurt Severn is only learning the skin now, not really good at playing." ”
The role of the veteran is like this, slapping a piece of sugar, constantly motivating young people to forge ahead.
Coincidentally, the Heat have too many "kicking young people's ass" roles, haslem with a white beard is not listed for the time being, Tucker and Lowry do not mention, just Butler's "I am the hardest person on the team", it is enough for role players to work hard.
Historically, there have been very few Big Three teams that don't rely on stars, after all, the value of stars is to take more money and do more things, but the Heat seem to be an exception.
The Heat had a 14-8 record without Adebayor and an 11-4 record without Adebayor and Butler.
According to simple logic, will those three-pointers that are not shot because of personal ability problems, rebounds that are not grabbed and empty positions that cannot be passed be better because of the return of stars? That being the case, doesn't that mean the Heat can touch a higher upper limit?
What's more, the Heat have always been a team that can fight hard battles. They are currently the only team in the league's top seven in terms of offense, defense and goal difference, and the other is the Suns, who lead the league.
So far this season, they have 13 key wins (against the top five teams), 14 away wins (the second most in the league) and a league-high 15 wins against teams with a 50% or more win rate.
The reason is that they not only play team basketball, but also that everyone on the team is not functional, but all-rounder.
It seems that Spoo sends everyone to shoot, pass, dribble and defend. Although these moves sound like nothing more than the basics of basketball, when most of them can say they are good at these in the NBA, the result is quite scary.
This season, the Heat averaged 66.9 points per game through assists, sixth in the league. They are in the league's top ten in terms of passes, assists and second assists per game.
The three-pointer is the core statistic of the Heat, who are averaging 13.4 three-pointers per game for sixth in the league and tied for second in the league with the Hawks at 37.4 percent. Supposedly, the team that shoots more three-point shots is more like the Rockets, throwing a bird with a hand, but the Heat averages 31.4 points per game, ranking third in the league.
Whether the player makes the system or the system makes the player is always a problem of "chicken and egg and egg and chicken", but in the face of the Heat, the system is higher than the word player.
Behind this has to mention the Heat team culture and coaching. The team culture was naturally created by Pat Riley, who has been in power for 27 seasons since he took power in 1995-96.
Among them, the Heat have reached the playoffs 20 times, second only to the Spurs in 24. With 136 game wins, it is second only to the Spurs and the Lakers, ranking third in the history of the same period.
Although Pat Riley is not very cheerful in the superstar problem, especially Wade, the choice of role players can always find players who fit the Heat system.
In addition, Coach Spoo's contribution to the team is also indispensable.
In his 14 seasons in charge of the Heat, he has only won fewer games than he has lost in 2 seasons; only three seasons have the team's defensive efficiency not made it into the top nine of the league.
In the coaching rankings with a winning percentage of more than 50%, Spoo is also in 14th place. Among the active coaches, only three coaches are behind Popovich, Doug Rivers and Steve Cole, ranking 4th in the active duty.
If the emergence of the Heat Big Three gave Spoo a platform to show himself, then the coaching talent of Coach Spoo is now truly recognized by people.
Especially in the year of the park season, from the fifth place in the East to the playoffs, all the way to the stage of the Finals, it is enough to prove the success of Spoo and the Heat system.
But people always remember recent events, such as the Heat being eliminated by bucks revenge last season and then feeling like the Heat were over.
Few people pay attention to it, and between 2020 and 2021, the Heat played as many as 105 games in the 302 days before and after.
The heavy burden of the game has caused veterans like Dragic to suffer a lot of injuries.
Now, even if the Heat have spent most of the season injured, they haven't sunk in, and there's reason to believe they have a chance to go further when they're fully fit.
Strong teams can't be measured by the one metric of winning a championship, but at least one thing is certain, absolutely no one wants to meet the Heat in the playoffs.
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