Sometimes it’s a little too easy to hold teams to the same standard as the HEAT.
Every season the HEAT, like all teams, have to deal with something. Usually it’s injuries. Sometimes it’s a tough road schedule or a weird losing streak or a personnel disagreement. For the past two years, you can stack health and safety protocols on top of all that. And every season the HEAT, unlike all teams, figure out a way to figure it out. They win the games they’re not supposed to win. They respond to adversity. They overachieve, at least relative to the circumstances that they’re dealt.