Miami Heat did not belong to the NBA 2025 qualifiers
As a seeded n ° 10 of the Eastern Conference, Miami Heat has made an unlikely race in the NBA game tournament to guarantee the seeded n ° 8 in the playoffs. This earned them a first -round date with the Cleveland riders.
If you did not watch, the riders were the most dominant team in basketball this season. Led by the new head coach Kenny Atkinson, the riders found an offensive identity while unlocking Evan Mobley and proving that Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland could coexist.
Crushed with an injury to the toes, Garland didn’t even need to adapt to matches 3 and 4, while the Cavs dismantled the heat in four games without their all-star goalkeeper.
After winning the match 1 by 21 points, Tony Brothers made this series interesting for about three minutes in match 2, which was as close as four points at the end of the match, but the Cavs found a way to win at nine years.
Very well, the heat has at least kept the pressure and has closed things, right? They certainly overthrew the series on the floor of their home and showed a fight, right?
Fake. The riders dominated the warmth of match 3, 124–87, in a match that was never close. Match 4 was in a way worse and the heat culture is now questioned, as Miami abandoned in a beat of 138-83.
The Cavs did this all year round. They were the best offense of the NBA. They enter a certain groove and just have their way with opponents regularly. The Mantra “Cavalanche” stormed Cleveland because a wave of offense quickly puts opposition in a major deficit.
But sometimes, when their offense was not on, they could look decorated. Miami has never even sniffed a suspicion of this in the four games.
Mobley dominated. Jarrett Allen had the best eliminatory series of his career, and he really needed it after the famous comments “the lights were too brilliant” and broke the coasts against the magic of Orlando in the first round last year. Mitchell, who entered the NBA qualifying series in a slight shooting crisis, completely broke out, pulling the ball with confidence and often in ball games.
The heat has never been lucky.
After losing Jimmy Butler in an excessive quantity of drama earlier in the season, it was difficult to know what to make heat. Tyler Herro talked a lot about this series in the first round and was simply not good enough to bring heat to a victory. He couldn’t even transport them to a tight match.
Is the heat so bad? Was the NBA game tournament also a joke? Or are riders a great strength in the eastern conference? The truth is somewhere in the middle.