‘Wasted day’ against Mavs as inconsistent Heat blown out
With just 35 games remaining on the regular-season schedule and ground to make up in the Eastern Conference standings after a slow start, the Miami Heat doesn’t have much time to waste.
That was the frustrating part of Friday night’s ugly 115-90 road loss to the Dallas Mavericks for Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.
“There are some days in this league you’re just not going to play well,” Spoelstra said, as the Heat’s threegame trip came to a close at 1-2. “There are some days where you’re just going to get beat. There are some days you’re just going to get beat convincingly, sometimes. What was disappointing about tonight is it was just a wasted day. We didn’t get better. We don’t have a lot of days to kick down the road like that.”
What once could be labeled as early-season struggles has turned into an ongoing theme of maddening inconsistency that could quickly become what defines the Heat’s 2022-23 season if it doesn’t find more consistent answers in the weeks ahead.