Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra says there has been a beauty in the struggle this season.
(via Bally Sports Sun):
Reporter: “You talked so much recently about how important the regular season was, and how important playing in all those close games were to get you all to this point. But why is nobody surprised that you all have been able to maintain the level that you have in the postseason?”
Spoelstra: “I’m not sure, and we don’t really care. If people don’t want to pay attention to what happened in the regular season, we are not going to make excuses for it. We just had to deal with a lot this year, and that beauty of the struggle of not making excuses for it, not collapsing your spirit because it got tough. There’s nothing easy about it, and there could be a beauty in that. You can get better from that. But we never felt that we were far off from where we were last year. So it is what it is. But this has been one of the most interesting and gratifying regular seasons. I’m not talking about the postseasons, but just to be able to go through that struggle together, and come out of it with a group that was pure of intention and then trying to get better, and then see it play out in the playoffs, that’s ultimately what you would love a regular season to do for you.”
