Five takeaways from the Heat’s dramatic, playoff-clinching 101-98 victory over the Atlanta Hawks at AmericanAirlines Arena on Tuesday:
1. There was certainly joy, and a sense of accomplishment, inside the Heat locker-room on a night the Heat assured itself a playoff berth a year after barely missing, and took a step in validating management’s decision to keep this group together this season.
But the joy was measured, the enthusiasm restrained. There was no music blaring in the locker-room, no open displays of merriment.
"I thought the magnitude of it would be a little different coming into the locker-room, guys yelling and champagne flying but none of us are satisfied," James Johnson said.