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1 week ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

This game comes down to one thing. Pace. The Miami Heat are 0-3 against the Chicago Bulls this season. It’s a bad matchup for them, but it’s the one they’ll have to overcome to make the playoffs. The Heat face the Bulls in Chicago on Wednesday as part of the play-in tournament. The game is at 7:30 pm ET and will be televised on ESPN. It will be exactly a week between their last regular-season matchup and this win-or-go-home 9-10 play-in game. If the Heat lose, their season is over.

3 weeks ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

Three observations from the Heat's win over the Celtics. Three observations from the Miami Heat’s 124-103 win over the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on Wednesday night, their sixth in a row. 1. Pelle Larsson finishing through contactIt’s rare you see a rookie wing finish through contact. Mostly because they are, like, smaller than the grown men they are playing against. Don’t tell that to Pelle Larsson, who went chest-to-chest with Jayson Tatum in mid-air and made the layup.

1 month ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

The Miami Heat could turn this collapse into a chance to add an elite talent in the NBA draft. The Miami Heat are in a tailspin. After dropping their eighth straight game in a blowout loss to the New York Knicks, the Heat have plummeted to the ninth-worst record in the league. This isn't just a rough patch -- it's a full-blown collapse. This isn’t turning around in any meaningful way. They're getting blown out by 30 on the regular.

1 month ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro working together, plus two more observations from Friday night's loss. Three observations from the Miami Heat’s 106-104 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night at Kaseya Center. 1. Davion Mitchell’s first stepMitchell’s defensive tenacity was well documented before his trade to Miami and that has certainly been as advertised. But something else that has stood out since his arrival is his first step on offense.

1 month ago | allucanheat.com | Wes Goldberg

Erik Spoelstra just hates them. Why doesn’t Erik Spoelstra use his challenges? I get asked that question often, and the Miami Heat coach has indeed opted – head-scratchingly so – to eschew a coach’s challenge in critical moments that could have swung a game or two. My answers through the season have varied from, “Well, maybe he didn’t see it the way we saw it on TV” to “He is taking a stand against the coach’s challenge.”Well, it turns out that Spoelstra just hates challenges. Everything about them.