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Miami Heat Organization Is Becoming Comfortably Miserable

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By @blackirishpr

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Embarrassment isn’t always the blueprint to a wake-up call. Just ask Norris Cole after seeing his boneheaded blunder run on a reel of every sports show after the Miami Heat‘s one-point loss on Wednesday night.

Clearly that was the case when he spouted, “They didn’t score off of it, so it’s not the reason why we lost the game,” when asked about the buffoonery that he was a part of. Instead of being contrite for what he orchestrated, he tried to justify the move as if it was not costly.

Yes, Cole is technically right because the Heat had two more chances to win the game — including his three that they did not need. But his mishap wasted 13 extra seconds the team could have had. And his nonchalance in not taking the blame falls in line with what columnist Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel had to say:

“Again, I hate to go back to the same place, but it’s almost an attitude in the locker room of, hey, we went to four straight NBA Finals. Everyone deserves a chance to exhale.”

That right there is everything that is wrong with the team from South Beach this year. It’s like they have become comfortable with the misery of losing. And it’s all because of the cushion that winning with Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James gave them.

However, Miami’s satisfied mindset does not stop with the players. Coach Erik Spoelstra seems to be using this year as a way to test rotation patterns that will keep his team in the losing column. And he only compounds his poor decisions by letting the world know what he should have done in hindsight.

Perhaps he does not understand that if you use hindsight too many times to mask your mistakes, you end up looking like you have no idea what you’re trying to do.

Pat Riley comes off just as clueless when speaking on not making changes unless it gets them to “great fast.”

He does not want to get too good. So I guess he forgot that the Heat always built with role players — only getting superstar rich in the summer of 2010. Truth be told, making no changes will have Miami resembling something much less than decent. But they don’t care; they’re all living comfortably.

Richard Nurse is a writer for www.RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @blackirishpr or add him to your network on Google.

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