Miami Heat: Front office is to blame for the disastrous start to the season

The front office is to blame for the disastrous start of the Mami Heat. 

Through the first seven games of the season, you can argue that no team has been more disappointing in the Eastern Conference than the Miami Heat. Well, I suppose, aside from the Brooklyn Nets.

The Heat is 2-5 and has racked up some really bad losses. For example, the Heat has already lost to a Zach LaVine-less Chicago Bulls team and the winless Sacramento Kings. Suffice to say, it’s been a pretty disastrous start for the Heat.

While there’s still plenty of time for the Heat to turn their season around, there shouldn’t be much hope of the team doing so. And that, mostly, has to do with the franchise’s inactivity during the offseason.

The Miami Heat’s front office has some explaining to do

There’s no excuse for what the Heat’s front office failed to do during the offseason. For years, this is a front office that has gotten praise after praise. They’ve been commended for building a championship-level team without cap space, a high lottery pick, or a superstar.

But if this is a front office that is going to take the praise when they do something good, they have to absorb the criticism when they don’t do something good. And their inactivity this past offseason deserves criticism.

It’s not just the fact that the Heat’s front office elected to do nothing when PJ Tucker left for the Philadelphia 76ers in free agency. It’s much more than that. Their inactivity is even more egregious considering the Boston Celtics, the aforementioned Sixers, Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks, and Cleveland Cavaliers are improved their teams tangibly during the offseason.

All while the Heat’s front office was too busy twiddling their fingers to respond with a transaction of their own.

You can rebuttal with the argument that the Heat tried to acquire Kevin Durant and Donovan Mitchell, and missed. But did the Heat really have much of a chance on any of those fronts?

We constantly heard that the Nets weren’t serious about trading Durant and were we really supposed to believe that Danny Ainge (or an organization he’s associated with) was going to do business with Pat Riley and the Heat?

The Heat is a mess. They have the look of a team that has been with each other for one season too long. I’m not sure how or if this is a situation that head coach Erik Spoelstra can make the best out of, but even he is struggling to figure it out.

No matter how this season ends, it’s clear whatever happens is on the front office. It’s inexcusable.