Dave Feschuk: In the NBA, like the NHL, tenacity wins titles. The Miami Heat might have cracked the code
If Tkachuk embodies a certain kind of seize-the-moment spirit that’s not always easy to quantify but often seems lacking on the Leafs — well, maybe it’s not a coincidence that the Heat seemed possessed of a similar urgency in droves.
has long insisted the Heat be “the hardest working, best conditioned, most professional, unselfish, toughest, nastiest team in the league.”deemed a team-wrecking problem in previous environs, defines himself by it and holds teammates to it. Miami coach Erik Spoelstra calls it “a perfect marriage.” That’s admirable when you consider the actual merits of Miami’s self-admitted craziness aren’t always readily quantifiable. The Heat, who needed to beat Chicago in a must-win play-in game to even get into the eight-team Eastern bracket, came into the post-season as 60-1 long shots to win the East. That, of course, speaks to the limits of handicapping a team’s playoff prospects by referencing its regular-season results. The Heat were, by every measure, ho-hum over the 82-game grind.
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