{"id":64377,"date":"2025-11-25T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64377\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:03:24","slug":"an-analysis-of-monday-nights-miami-heat-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64377\/","title":{"rendered":"An analysis of Monday night&#8217;s Miami Heat-Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2014 Observations and other notes of interest from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2025\/11\/24\/tyler-herro-steps-up-in-return-with-24-points-winning-basket-as-heat-down-mavs-106-102-for-fifth-straight-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monday night\u2019s 106-102 victory over the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Sometimes, it\u2019s about the kid stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 So allow Kel\u2019el Ware his flex after a third-quarter blocked shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And Keshad Johnson his revelry after his thunderous second-quarter transition dunk.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And Davion Mitchell his fist pumps after a second-half steal against 2025 draft talking point Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 No, the Heat did not win June\u2019s lottery like the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Nor did they even consider a soft tank to land in that lottery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 But don\u2019t sell short the youthful exuberance Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is throwing out there on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Yes, 30-something Norman Powell has been the team\u2019s MVP to this stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And old soul Bam Adebayo has been the glue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 But against the Mavericks and their lottery prize, the Heat showed ample young legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Which was exactly as needed on the second night of the back-to-back set that opened with Sunday\u2019s victory in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 So to recap:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Heat are winning, now 12-6.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Heat are scoring, Monday a rare non-explosive night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And there is enough youthful vigor to push through games such as this, the third in four nights.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 With Tyler Herro back and Powell out, the Heat\u2019s lineup decision was as simple as subbing one out for the other, with the Heat otherwise opening with the same lineup as the previous two games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 That made the first five Herro, Adebayo, Ware, Mitchell and Pelle Larsson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Spoelstra downplayed the severity of Powell\u2019s latest groin strain.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cThe level of concern is not super high,\u201d Spoelstra said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cLook,\u201d Spoelstra said, \u201chow much we have to disclose now, you wouldn\u2019t even say Norm\u2019s injury was a strain 10 years ago. You\u2019d just say it\u2019s sore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Of Powell, Andrew Wiggins and Nikola Jovic being out, Spoelstra said, \u201cThe three guys, it\u2019s manageable right now. We\u2019ll see where that is. They\u2019re all day-to-day, which I\u2019m super grateful for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Mavericks, still without Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving, opening with a lineup of Brandon Williams, Max Christie, Flagg, PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The teams each opened 0 for 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 With Adebayo opening 0 for 3 from the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Heat later fell to 0 for 7 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Before Mitchell, with 7:02 left in the opening period, converted the Heat\u2019s first basket.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Jaime Jaquez Jr. then again was first off the Heat bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Simone Fontecchio followed, when Larsson was called for his second foul.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 With Johnson then making his third consecutive rotation appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And Dru Smith rounding out the first nine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Spoelstra said he was as surprised as anyone that Herro was forced to undergo September ankle surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cI know how much work he\u2019s been putting in. But I know how much he wanted to be ready for training camp,\u201d Spoelstra said. \u201cI literally went to one of his workouts in late July, before I went on vacation, and he looked amazing. And then when I came back in the middle of August, he was starting to feel that it was off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Spoelstra also scoffed at any concerns about Herro adjusting to the Heat uptick in pace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s not like he hasn\u2019t been working behind the scenes,\u201d Spoelstra said before the game.\u00a0 \u201cDid I have a discussion with him today? No, but we\u2019ve got a lot of practices, shootarounds, a lot of discussions since training camp about how he can fit in. This is just going to be an absolute add. His skill level is going to fit right in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Spoelstra added, \u201cAnd we\u2019re familiar with him; he\u2019s familiar with us. So, yes, there\u2019s some things we\u2019re doing a little differently offensively. But defensively, he\u2019s been with us for a long time. He\u2019s been with our culture. He was on a really good defensive team last year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night\u2019s 106-102 victory over the Dallas Mavericks: \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,3607,4852,20490,3080,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-64377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miami-heat-blog","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}