Get off Erik Spoelstra's back.
That's where you start with this disappointing Heat finish. Give the only coach in town to win multiple rings in more than four decades some benefit of the earned doubt.
Spoelstra sounded the way sports fans want their coach to sound at the end of a disappointing season when he talked Friday about the lost leads, and lost games down the stretch, that have the Heat out of the playoffs in a way they shouldn't be.
"It's a bottom-line business,'' he said. "None of us are happy."
Now it's time for sports fans to sound the way they should and aren't about Spoelstra.