Agreed. I'd guess it was 100% on the players not staying attached to their man & closing out properly.Yup. This smells like a coach backing up his players to take the heat off of them while placing it on himself. He’s become very good at this which is part of the reason his players back him so much in interviews. Let’s see if this works to get his guys ready tomorrow. Should be telling.
Joe covered for them in the media.
With no Butler, I doubt Joe schemed to give up 23 wide-open + 14 open 3s, esp. when the Heat shoot 41.4% on wide-open 3s.
PLUS these Heat torched Boston with open 3s four times in the playoffs last year. It's not exactly rocket science to see the Heat's only path to beating Boston.
We should see much tighter defense today, if not it will be unfun again.