MIAMI — No team in the NBA shot better on 3-pointers during the regular season than the Miami Heat. Of those still remaining, no team has shot worse in the playoffs from beyond the arc than Erik Spoelstra’s.
That, in a nutshell, sums up how months of 3-point exhilaration have turned into postseason desperation.
“That’s part of the game, part of the playoffs,” Spoelstra said, with his Heat falling from a 2-0 lead in this best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Philadelphia 76ers into a 2-2 tie going into Tuesday’s 7:30 p.m Game 5 at FTX Arena. “Sometimes you don’t make shots. But you still have opportunities to grind out and win ugly.”
