While Wiggins still is limited<\/a> by knee tendinitis, the formal reason for his second consecutive absence was an inflamed left big toe.<\/p>\n\u2013 \u201cWe\u2019ll just treat it,\u201d Spoelstra said. \u201cEvery injury is different, so he\u2019s dealing with both things right now that we think we can clear up in the short term. And we\u2019ll just see. He\u2019s getting a lot of treatment, so that\u2019s definitely helping and he\u2019s making some progress.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 As for Powell entering his second week of being out with a strained right groin, Spoelstra said, \u201cI think he\u2019s been able to do a little bit more. He\u2019s definitely been able to do more, So, again, I think we shut him down at a responsible time to be able to try to fast track this. But I don\u2019t have an update on his timeline. But he definitely is doing more.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Going in, there was ample credit to the Pistons from their rise from just two years ago being in the ashes.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s a credit to the coaching staff there,\u201d Spoelstra said. \u201cThey built a culture very quickly. And the young players that they\u2019ve had that were around two years ago have really used that as fuel and motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 Spoelstra added, \u201cBut it\u2019s hard to win in this league in general. It\u2019s even more of a challenge to win when you have a lot of young players. But I think Cunningham and Duren are wired a little bit differently than most young players. And they defend.They\u2019re always going to have a chance in games the way they defend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 The Pistons entered on their first three-game losing streak of the season.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201cThe best part of this group is we continue to grow, we continue to learn, and it\u2019s all part of the process for us,\u201d coach J.B. Bickerstaff said.<\/p>\n
\u2013 He added, \u201cWe still feel like we haven\u2019t reached our ceiling yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014\u00a0Observations and other notes of interest from Sunday night\u2019s 121-110 victory over the Detroit Pistons: \u2013 Heading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,123,125,2490,16151,124,2295,110],"class_list":["post-183755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-heat-blog","tag-miami-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}