At the midpoint of the season, the Miami Heat sit at 21-20, a record that head coach Erik Spoelstra believes doesn’t reflect the group’s true ceiling, per Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald.
Spoelstra acknowledged that while expectations inside the locker room are higher, results still dictate reality.
“We feel like we’re better than where we are, but we are what our record is right now. That’s the bottom line,” he said. “If you play games on paper, I think right now we would have a better record. But that’s not the case right now.”
From the players’ perspective, Bam Adebayo pointed to mindset and collective discipline as the missing ingredients.
He stressed that talent alone won’t move the team forward without a stronger commitment to the details.
“We are better than what our record says,” Adebayo said. “But until all of us commit to doing role-player things, we’ll keep being in the middle of the pack, mediocre.
“Until guys get sick of that middle ground of being seventh, eighth and not want to really make a push to be fourth or third in the East, we’re going to stay right here.”
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