The Miami Heat’s offence was the main source of the team’s issues at the beginning of the week. The Heat’s defence was the team’s worst problem by the end of the week.
The Heat (24–22) lost 125–109 to the New York Knicks on Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden, their sixth straight game of defeat.
Coaches and players are looking for answers since their team is having trouble on both sides of the court.
Since dropping six straight games in March 2021, this is the Heat’s first six-game losing streak.
Erik Spoelstra, the coach of the Heat, stated, “We have to take control of our identity and get back to competing at a level to our standards and our DNA of our organisation, and we simply have not been doing that of late.” “Yet we must return to it as a team because we have at different points in the season.”
The Heat need to get back on track quickly because, with their Saturday defeat to the Knicks, they fell to seventh position in the Eastern Conference rankings, down from fifth place at the beginning of their six-game losing streak.
The Heat is currently one win away from going on their first seven-game losing streak since late in the 2007–08 campaign, when Miami won only 15 games.
When the Heat visit the scorching Phoenix Suns on Monday at Kaseya Centre (7:30 p.m., Bally Sports Sun and NBA TV), they’ll be trying to avoid losing seven games in a row.
