Heat head coach summed up Jimmy Butler s dramatic season and said "embarrassing"

Heat head coach Eric Spoelstra summed up Jimmy Butler's dramatic season and said "embarrassing"

After the Heat's turbulent season, Eric Spoelstra talked about the impact of Jimmy Butler's situation on it.

Miami -- After the Miami Heat lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the playoffs, the team began to reflect on this turbulent season. One of the reasons was the incident before the Heat traded Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors, where coach Eric Spoelstra truthfully spoke about the impact of the situation on the team at that time.

The Miami Heat have repeatedly banned Butler, including missing the team's flight, withdrawing from shooting training after being told that they cannot start, etc. Butler said he lost his "happiness" after losing to the Indiana Pacers on January 2. In a departure interview on Wednesday, Spoelstra said that while the team took pride in not making excuses, Butler's drama "had indeed had an impact."

"This certainly has an impact," Spoelstra said. “We are a team that takes pride in not making any excuses, and even if we handled it perfectly, we always reflect afterwards to see that we could have done better just to get the situation back on track, and that period was really calm.”

“I will look back on this experience in the same way, and those five years are still wonderful,” Spolstra continued. "It's usually not as sensational as this time, but the ending always makes sense. You go to see other teams, and when players change their clubs, it's a pity. We don't think things don't have to develop that level, but now we know. We've turned over a new page, opened a new chapter, and we're moving forward."

Heat Eric Spoelstra said they deserved to be humiliated

Heat ended the season with a 55-point defeat, which is of great significance to the team and the biggest loss in the team's history. However, Spoelstra and the Miami Heat also have some reminiscent of the season. After the trade, the team had a record of 12 wins and 25 losses, but they achieved a good record at the end of the regular season, winning eight of the last 12 games and becoming the first team in playoff playoff history to advance to the playoffs as a No. 10 seed. The series against the Cleveland Cavaliers ended the Heat and exposed how vulnerable they were, and they beat their opponents by 122 points throughout the series, setting the biggest score difference in NBA history.

Spoelstra would say that it is natural for this team to be "deserved".

"We all face very tough times in the season," Spoelstra said Wednesday. "There are some other stages of the season, but during the losing streak, we played well, made progress, but lost the game. I often say, you want a team that feels worth winning, and we did feel worth winning at the time."

"You know, it was during that 10-game losing streak, and we played the best basketball after that," Spolstra continued. "Then we go all out. When you treat yourself as a competitor, you have to go all out. It's what we deserve. The criticism we deserve. The embarrassment of the last two games we deserve."

The Miami Heat enters the offseason and hopes to rebound strongly after ranking tenth in the Eastern Conference with a record of 37-45.