ASK IRA: Are the Heat simply a defeated bunch?
Q: Ira, the body language is as bad as the play. Bam Adebayo looks beaten down. Tyler Herro can’t get a rhythm when on the court with teammates who can’t help him on defense.
And Erik Spoelstra is doing nothing to help the confidence of Kel’el Ware or Kasparas Jakucionis the way he is ignoring them. They know they are bad. It’s sad.
– Kelvin. A: This might not be rock bottom, but, yes, it is feeling like last season’s 10-game losing streak , which had the Heat at the bottom of the play-in as the No. 10 seed.
And it’s beginning to look like No. 10 again. Last year, there was the struggle-to-the-finish drive to play their way out of the play-in.
At the moment, it doesn’t look like that is there, life continually being sucked out of this lifeless season. At this point, would even a Udonis Haslem pep talk work? Not a good roster, and a coach who insists on pushing the same button when those buttons simply aren’t working.