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We can forge our own paths. The sensitive Moon joins with dreamy Neptune in its home sign of Pisces, heightening our intuitions and our creative sparks. At 2:01 pm EST, the Moon leaves Pisces to buoy up independent Aries, providing a dynamic get-up-and-go motivation to our inner lives.
Observations and other notes of interest from Saturday night’s 136-100 loss to the Utah Jazz:
– Jimmy Butler’s lack of joy apparently is contagious.
– Even in absentia.
– With Butler away from the Heat for the start of his seven-game team suspension, in the wake of comments and actions he said were tied to his lack of joy, those left behind were the ones left to experience the misery.
– Erik Spoelstra can say all he wants about moving forward.
– At the moment, it doesn’t appear the Heat can engage that gear.
– Just, as it seemed, they couldn’t engage Butler.
– Instead, an absolute lack of anything Saturday night at Kaseya Center.
– In a season stuck in reverse.
– Listless early.
– Sluggish thereafter.
– In some ways, it was as if the Heat were emulating what Butler (hadn’t) offered the grievous two games.
– The difference is the Heat were trying.
– Or at least trying to try.
– Yeesh.
– And did we mention the Jazz entered 7-25.
– Sort of trying to lose.
– With Butler away, Spoelstra opened with a lineup of Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro, Terry Rozier, Haywood Highsmith and Nikola Jovic.
– So not only Butler out, but Duncan Robinson to the second unit.
– Of moving forward without Butler in the wake of Friday’s seven-game team suspension, Adebayo said earlier in the day, “after what happened yesterday, we’re focused on who’s with us now.”
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– What was with the Heat wasn’t nearly enough.
– Adebayo said he attempted to get counsel from predecessor captain Udonis Haslem regarding how in the locker room to handle Butler’s suspension.
– “He just looks at me with a blank face,” Adebayo said.
MIAMI — As bad as it had gotten with Jimmy Butler and his indifference and indignation, it got even worse Saturday night for the Miami Heat.
With Butler serving the first game of a seven-game team suspension imposed Friday for “conduct detrimental to the team,” Erik Spoelstra’s team offered its own version of detriment, falling 136-100 to the Utah Jazz at Kaseya Center.
As he did before the game, Spoelstra pushed past questions about the impact of the Butler situation.
As in a Utah Jazz team that entered 7-25 amid a season targeted for losing and the lottery.
And, so, the largest loss of the season (and largest in more than four years) and the most points surrendered, a loss that also included a 57-32 rebounding deficit.
“I don’t think we make any excuses for this,” Spoelstra said.