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Erik Spoelstra still has the 2020 Finals in mind | NBA

The 2020 Finals will go down as a unique event in history. At the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic, the NBA had managed to save its season by ending its championship in a “sanitary bubble” at Disney World.

Miami had been the revelation of this adventure, going all the way to the final before losing 4-2 to the Lakers, in particular because of physical glitches which somewhat weighed down the stakes of this clash at the top.

The experience marked everyone, from the leaders to the fans, passing of course by the staffs and the players and who found themselves cut off from the world for a hundred days for the two teams which went to the end. So much so that Erik Spoelstra still keeps this failure in the back of his mind.

“I think about it a lot”, he told the Miami Herald. “It’s probably accentuated because we were in the bubble for 100 days. We invested everything in it. It was really unique, obviously, because of the circumstances, the camaraderie, and the emotional investment that was the highest of any band I’ve been around. I think all of those factors contributed to it.”

Try to see the glass half full

Erik Spoelstra hasn’t forgotten anything, the good times that punctuated this crazy epic, like the emergence of the Herro/Robinson tandem, but also the failures like this final in which the Heat were a bit too short to compete, especially after to the injury of Goran Dragic, also exceptional during the Heat’s 2020 campaign.

“I think every time you have the opportunity to compete at the highest level and compete at that final stage, you can see how tough the competition is and how much it takes to get past that final peak. I’m just really grateful to have had this experience”, he added.

Obviously, the circumstances still haunt the eight Miami players (Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler, Udonis Haslem, Tyler Herro, KZ Okpala, Duncan Robinson, Chris Silva, Gabe Vincent) present. “I always think about: ‘What if?’. But life goes on.” confided Bam Adebayo, who, like Erik Spoelstra, prefers to retain the positive.

“I think at the end of the day it was great for us because we were part of it, we got to the final and we know what it took to get there. I feel like that’s the biggest life lesson I’ve learned from this experience. To have lived that, it makes us want to relive it. We all feel like we just failed, so the most important thing for us is to find a way to get back there and force a different outcome this time.” added the American international pivot.

Mentally and physically, the “bubble” has been so trying that the 2020/21 season has been a succession of galleys for Miami (and the Lakers). But the Floridians now seem to have recovered from their emotions, ready to play their luck again in a conference that is still as competitive as ever. They will in any case have the opportunity to evoke some memories this evening, from 00:00, with the reception of the Lakers…

Shots Bounces
Players GM Minimum Shots 3 points LF Off Def Early pd bp Int CT party Points
Jimmy Butler 28 33.3 48.1 24.0 87.9 1.8 4.0 5.9 5.9 2.0 1.9 0.4 1.2 21.4
Tyler Herro 38 32.9 43.0 38.8 87.6 0.7 4.2 4.9 4.0 2.8 0.6 0.2 1.4 20.7
Bam Adebayo 21 32.9 51.8 0.0 76.7 2.6 7.3 10.0 3.2 2.9 1.2 0.5 3.1 18.7
Kyle Lowry 39 34.2 41.2 32.7 84.7 0.6 3.8 4.5 8.3 3.1 1.0 0.4 2.8 13.4
Max Strus 35 23.8 45.5 41.2 77.5 0.4 3.0 3.4 1.3 0.7 0.3 0.2 1.5 11.7
Duncan Robinson 43 27.4 38.7 35.2 80.6 0.4 2.8 3.2 1.5 0.8 0.7 0.2 2.6 11.5
Caleb Martin 36 23.1 51.7 37.0 71.4 1.2 2.8 4.0 0.9 0.8 1.1 0.5 1.7 9.6
Gabe Vincent 37 22.3 44.0 38.6 76.5 0.4 1.5 1.9 3.0 1.5 0.9 0.3 2.2 8.9
pj tucker 40 28.3 49.2 45.4 69.2 1.6 4.0 5.5 2.1 0.9 0.8 0.3 2.2 8.1
Markieff Morris 10 18.7 45.7 36.4 100.0 1.3 1.5 2.8 1.4 1.2 0.3 0.1 2.2 7.7
Kyle Guy 8 16.6 46.8 39.3 80.0 0.1 1.1 1.2 1.9 0.8 0.5 0.1 1.1 7.4
Dewayne Dedmon 39 17.0 59.5 57.1 76.4 1.9 4.4 6.3 0.8 1.0 0.4 0.5 2.2 6.7
Omer Yurtseven 36 15.1 52.1 14.3 64.0 1.8 4.6 6.4 1.1 0.9 0.4 0.5 1.8 6.4
Nik Stauskas 2 11.8 37.5 50.0 75.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 5.5
Kz Okpala 21 11.6 43.5 34.6 72.7 0.5 1.4 2.0 0.7 0.2 0.2 0.3 1.2 3.7
Chris Silva 7 9.0 61.5 0.0 80.0 1.4 2.3 3.7 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.0 1.9 3.4
Udonis Haslem 8 6.5 50.0 50.0 100.0 0.5 1.6 2.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 1.4 3.0
Haywood Highsmith 4 10.4 50.0 57.1 0.0 0.5 0.8 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.8 3.0
Marcus Garrett 12 10.7 23.8 25.0 40.0 0.8 1.2 1.9 0.6 0.2 0.4 0.2 1.3 1.1

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