I asked Spoelstra about the slippage in fourth quarter defensive rating from last season (top 5) to now (25th). He says it’s been a focus of their film study. But he also thinks the lack of offensive intention is contributing to it.

7 Comments

1. vapemyashes 12 months ago

   Looked like a lack of dawg energy.

2. Esjay_954 12 months ago

   Yea some of their most played lineups are getting cooked in the fourth

   https://www.nba.com/stats/lineups/advanced?Period=4&TeamID=1610612748&dir=D&slug=advanced&sort=MIN

   Jimmy Jrich Duncan Jaquez Bam has a 125 DTRG and it’s their second most played 4Q lineup. But they do have a 130 ORTG lol.

   Spo has time to find out what will work best with more experimenting.

3. Dame2Miami 12 months ago

   How can our shooting so consistently go cold in these 4th quarter situations 😭 felt like JRich made a three and that was the only notable offense we had the whole quarter…

4. carbine23 12 months ago

   If bam fixed out 4th qtr defensive woes he should be dpoy like forreal

5. not_so_smoothie 12 months ago

   It’s nothing new, not sure why people are freaking out.

   Last decade has been this way, either a 4th quarter comeback or 4th quarter collapse.

6. TheRatchetTrombone 12 months ago

   They don’t even try to attack.
   I’ve seen people say the defense tightens up or we don’t have a backup point guard, but they don’t even try to fucking keep attacking whenever they have a huge lead. It’s fucking boggling that they are getting this cocky this early when this could very well be their last season together if they don’t win a ring. Fucking ridiculous man

7. Alternative_Case_878 12 months ago

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   Here’s the joke I told:

   “What do you do if you see an epileptic having a fit in the bath?

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   “No,” replied the guy. “He choked on a sock.”