Channeling ‘Friday Night Lights,’ Erik Spoelstra has Heat ready for anything

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With or without Jimmy Butler, head coach Erik Spoelstra gives the Heat the best chance they’ve got.

PHILADELPHIA — coach Erik Spoelstra kept saying the same thing. What’s more? He knew it. As the pre-game availability for his team’s 105-104 loss to the in the Play-In Tournament got going, it was easy to sense Spoelstra’s impatience — not only for answering questions from the media, but also for the game to get underway. This was the fourth time he had spoken publicly about facing and since the regular season ended, which means he had done so privately many, many more times.

Yet, the Heat were so in sync with it — surely aided by Embiid still looking for his sense of rhythm and timing — that Philadelphia looked hapless against it. Philadelphia turned the ball over 12 times in the first half, leading to plenty of easy looks that the Heat offense cannot generate otherwise. It was interesting to watch , a player I covered for his first three and a half years in the league with the , within the system.

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