The Miami HEAT have the talent to be a great team, but talent alone doesn’t make teams great. You can have as many All-Stars and All-NBA accolades on your roster as you’d like, you still need guys willing to make the fringe plays that can turn good into really good, and really good into great.
Because every so often, you need those players making fringe plays to take center stage. And how they perform can mean the difference in a handful of wins each season.
Miami earned one of those this-could-have-been-a-loss wins in improbable fashion against the Houston Rockets Sunday evening, coming back from a 21-point deficit in the third quarter to win by 20.