Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra Is Like Doc Rivers in Way He Manages Personalities,

Some of the Heat are offering high praise to coach Erik Spoelstra as he leads Miami in its second straight NBA Finals appearance.

Veteran guard Juwan Howard lauded Spoelstra’s role in helping the team blend together, from stars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh meshing on the court to veterans like Juwan Howard and Mike Miller finding their roles.

“It’s challenging, but Spoelstra has done a great job with all of that,” Howard said, according to Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated. But Howard didn’t stop at just complimenting his coach — he took his praise to the comparison level. “He sort of reminds me of Doc Rivers,” Howard said. “Spo doesn’t get a lot of credit for blending all these personalities.”

That may be true, but the likely reason Spoelstra hasn’t been getting much credit for blending the personalities is because, over the past two years, they haven’t blended all that well. Miami appears to be in good shape at this point in the Finals, but plenty of times this…

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