{"id":282958,"date":"2025-11-14T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282958\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:45:09","slug":"heats-norman-powell-disappointed-in-teams-effort-in-loss-to-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282958\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat\u2019s Norman Powell disappointed in team\u2019s effort in loss to Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> just suffered one of their worst losses of the young season, and the team\u2019s star players are taking accountability for what lies ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Facing a shorthanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> team on Wednesday, the Heat were embarrassed on their home floor by a score of 130-116. The Cavaliers were without Evan Mobley, Darius Garland, and Donovan Mitchell in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the Heat are dealing with injuries of their own, seeing as they haven\u2019t had Tyler Herro or Bam Adebayo for weeks. Nonetheless, the Heat feel as though this was a game they should\u2019ve won, and guard Norman Powell \u2014 who finished with 27 points in the loss \u2014 echoed that sentiment postgame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gotta be better, it doesn\u2019t matter who\u2019s suiting up, we gotta focus on what we need to focus on and play our brand of basketball no matter who we\u2019re lined up against,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wadexflash\/status\/1988849056810971179?s=46&amp;t=SF-knYTy_vdKy3mmfTQuvQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">Powell said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After back-to-back matchups with Cleveland, the Heat will once again be faced with two consecutive games against the same opponent when they take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> on both Friday, and Monday. Going up against another contender gives the Heat another chance to pass the litmus test as they look to rebound after a disappointing 2024-25 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More Heat news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Heat just suffered one of their worst losses of the young season, and the team\u2019s star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-282958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}