The Miami Heat split their back-to-back and are now preparing for upcoming games as the news and rumors ramp up.
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Wade Questions Offense
Dwyane Wade has been consistently scoring in double digits but nearly had that streak snapped at 12 Wednesday. Wade was held to eight points until late in the fourth quarter.
His running bank shot midway through the final period gave him 10 points and he left the game seconds later. “They switched a lot of stuff,” Wade said. “There was no space on the floor. We just really didn’t get any good looks.”
Wade added: “We needed to scrap our playbook at that point and come up with something different.”
Coach Erik Spoelstra didn’t directly address the criticism of the system, instead saying the team wasn’t nearly aggressive enough.
Chris Bosh said that it was actually the players not doing well, reported the Sun Sentinel.
“We just shot ourselves in the foot, over and over. We didn’t get any easy ones. We had some turnovers, and that led to them getting easy buckets. We had a bunch of breakdowns on defense, and that did not help us, either,” he said.
“We didn’t have any easy buckets or good looks. Once that happened, they played off the miss all night. We kind of just folded in that second half. I think we played a decent game in the first two quarters, but after that, the ship just sunk very quickly.”
Wade also noted that it was tough playing the tail end of the back-to-back in Denver’s high altitude.
“This is the worst back-to-back in the league,” Wade said. “You come in to see what you can do. You try to come out and compete. We did that for a half and then it got away from us in the third quarter. It was one of those games.”
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