Wes Goldberg

1 month ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

Let this be your Miami Heat offseason primer. After a tumultuous season headlined by the Jimmy Butler trade and suffering the worst playoff defeat in league history, the Miami Heat enter a pivotal offseason in which they will try to chart a course to return to contention. From the draft and big-name trades, to rounding out the roster with more depth, here are the biggest questions facing the Heat this summer. 1. What are Miami’s draft assets?

2 months ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

This season was about everything but basketball. The Miami Heat season officially ended Monday night, but in some ways, the season was over on the night of Jan. 2. That’s when Jimmy Butler walked into a postgame press conference after a passive performance in a loss to the Indiana Pacers and told a room full of reporters, “I want to get my joy back.”Asked if he could foresee regaining that joy with the Heat, Butler responded, “Probably not.”Butler’s official trade request came shortly after.

2 months ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

Win or go home. Well, this is it. Win, or the season is over. The Miami Heat will enter Monday night’s Game 4 down 0-3 to the Cleveland Cavaliers. After a competitive first two games of the series, Game 3 was a blowout. After the Heat got out to a quick start, the Cavaliers went on a run, took the lead, and never looked back as they led by as many as 40 points. Miami pulled its starters with roughly five minutes left in Saturday afternoon’s game. The Heat practiced Sunday ahead of this pivotal Game 4.

2 months ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

Erik Spoelstra may have found some things. Three observations from the Miami Heat’s Game 2 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, but we’re going to look for positives that the Heat can carry into Saturday's Game 3. 1. Tyler Herro’s spacingHere’s an example of how Tyler Herro was used down the stretch of the Heat’s Game 1 loss to the Cavaliers. Herro is stuck in the corner, trying to space the floor from the weakside to create more room for the primary action on the opposite side of the court.

2 months ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

The Heat need to make things easier for Herro. Tyler Herro ran nearly three miles in Sunday night’s Game 1 loss as the Cavs made things difficult for him on both ends of the court. Max Strus face-guarded him on the very first inbound, and Cleveland denied Herro the ball most of the night. Herro took only 18 shots but, more importantly, had just two assists. The Cavs identified Herro as the head of the snake, and they worked to take him out. They did, and Miami’s offense was defanged.