It doesn’t have to be easy to go from being NBA finalists when you are temporarily at 13th place of the Eastern Conference. The transition from last season to the current one was definitely problematic for the Miami Heat, who ran into the 13th defeat of the season tonight, this time at the hands of Charlotte Hornets.
The Heat practically have thrown away away a victory that, in the last 3 minutes, seemed to have been won. Instead the Hornets continued to fight, recovering the 10 points of disadvantage who had 2.47 minutes left in the game, only to win overtime. Charlotte won against Miami thanks to a memorable performance, thanks above all to the 36 points leaving the bench of Malik Monk, new deductible record:
“I was ready, I went out on the pitch very concentrated”
Coach Borrego also expressed all his satisfaction with the victory:
“We have been a resilient group since the beginning of the year. We have never given up, our mentality is to fight to the end. Although we were down by 10 with two minutes and something left, none of us bowed our heads “
Moods totally opposites, as is widely understood, at home in Miami. Coach Spoelstra has shown himself a lot disappointed for the lack of W, especially for the way it is faded:
“In the end, if you are ahead in double figures you have to try to defend well and close the match. We weren’t able to do it “
Same deficiency also noted by Bam Adebayo:
“We must defend. It’s the base. We can play as well in attack as we want, but we have to defend “
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