The Miami Heat have an outstanding road record, with 18 wins away from Kaseya Center, one fewer than the league-leading Boston Celtics. This is despite Thursday night’s defeat to the Denver Nuggets at the conclusion of a weeklong journey.
However, it has been a different story at Kaseya Center, where the Heat make their return on Saturday to begin a two-game homestand against the Utah Jazz. With a 15-13 record, the Heat are more akin to teams that are fighting to qualify for the play-in round.
Guard Tyler Herro stated, “Going into the season, the goal is.500 while traveling and then slaying it at home.
It has essentially been the contrary.
“I believe that in the beginning we dropped a few games that we were winning at home and then lost in the fourth quarter, which hurt the record to the point where we had to adopt a road warrior mentality, thinking that since we’re losing at home, let’s try to win as many games as we can away from home. Therefore, we had to travel to make up some of those victories.
Not at all ideal.
He remarked, “But we’ve usually been dominant at home, so I don’t really know why we’re not winning at home.”
The Heat won 27–14 at home and 17–24 away in the NBA Finals the previous season when they made it that far. The number of wins on the road has already been surpassed. The Heat would now need to go 12-1 to match that record at home with 13 games left.
Center The home win-loss record didn’t need to be disclosed to Bam Adebayo in order for him to recognize that something wasn’t right.
“Dude, I have no idea,” he remarked. There have been highs and lows, positives and negatives for us. Men entering and exiting the lineup. The greatest course of action for us at this time is to become more impressive at home rather than mediocre.
“Use the momentum we’ve built up in our last few away games to our advantage when we return home.”
In contrast, aside from the Heat, the only other Eastern Conference teams with a higher percentage of road victories than home victories are the Detroit Pistons and the Washington Wizards, and even they are not very successful. The Wizards are 6-24 on the road and 3-25 at home.
- Regarding the Heat’s home/road splits, guard Duncan Robinson stated, “I don’t necessarily think there’s something there.” “I believe that our main goal is to focus on playing our best basketball. Because of the way things have gone, there have been times when we haven’t played well and we have coincidentally been playing at home.
