Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said Monday he wants to stick with this current starting lineup — a quintet that has the second-worst plus/minus on the team among five-man groups but has played fairly limited minutes together.
The group of Hassan Whiteside, James Johnson, Josh Richardson, Goran Dragic and Tyler Johnson has played 54 minutes together, and the Heat has been outscored by 36 points in those minutes.
That unit, as a collective group, is shooting 38.6 percent from the field and 32.6 percent on threes (10 for 31), with 23 turnovers and 27 assists.
Though they struggled at the start of Saturday’s win against Charlotte, Spoelstra wants to give that group a longer look.