Miami Heat: Why Stats And Numbers Without Context Are Never Enough

President Pat Riley of the Miami Heat (R) shakes hands with head coach Erik Spoelstra (Photo by Ron Elkman/Sports Imagery/Getty Images)

The Miami Heat aren’t a traditional team. That’s actually pretty ironic, because in all the best ways, they are exactly that.

While they are, very much so, non-traditional in the fact that they don’t prescribe to all of the current trends or fads of the game, they are traditional in that they do things their way. Often, that way is very similar or close enough, to the ways that the Miami Heat have always gotten it done.

That’s through hard work, determination, and skill. In any event, there has often been criticism of Pat Riley and company, because they have…