After a tough start to their five-game road trip, the Miami HEAT have won four in a row with wins over the Utah Jazz and Washington Wizards. Now they sit No.
1 in the Eastern Conference at 11-5 and they're getting back on the plane for another four-game trip which culminates in a post-Thanksgiving match against the renewed Chicago Bulls. Here's what we've been noting and noticing:
There may be no more important moment for an offense than the one which puts two defenders on the ball. However you get to it, if you hit pause on your remote the exact second an additional defender commits to the ball just about anywhere outside of the paint, then you’ve arrived at one universal truth: the offensive team is now one pass away from a 4-on-3 advantage.