San Antonio Spurs vs Miami Heat Prediction: The Spurs should improve

San Antonio and Miami will play their next home game in Mexico, and this will be the 30th time the NBA has played in that country. Spurs already lost their last three home games against the Heat. Recently the team beat the Floridians on the road. Will they be able to do that again in Mexico City?

The Spurs won three of their last four regular-season games but remained 15th in the Western Conference. Even the absence of Jakob Pöltl hasn't hurt the Spurs. Charles Bassey and Zach Collins have been suitable substitutes for the Austrian big man. Now he is nearly ready to return to the floor. His participation in the Miami game is questionable. By the way, Collins missed his last regular season game, but the injury wasn't serious. Josh Richardson and Blake Wesley will not play, while Romeo Langford is still questionable.

Keldon Johnson has scored over 20 points in 5 games in a row, but against Portland, the San Antonio leader couldn't save his team from losing 112:128. Devin Wassell had a nice shot from beyond the arc but struggled and missed a lot. Spurs couldn't do anything on defense and allowed their opponent to hit over 60% of their shots from the field. San Antonio took 16 more shots and was quite effective overall - mistakes in their half made the difference.

The Heat have a similar style of play to San Antonio. They also play a lot of combinations and try to create as good a shooting position as possible. Lately, the results are also encouraging. Thanks to 3 wins in a row, the club from Florida State has climbed up to 8th place in the Eastern Conference. However, it is unclear what lineup the Heat will have in the upcoming game: the participation of Bam Adebayo, Kyle Lowry, Caleb Martin, Haywood Highsmith, and Yudonis Haslem is still questionable.

The last against Houston was played by the team in an 8-man rotation, with 36 minutes at the center position taken by Orlando Robinson, who recently signed a two-way contract with the Heat. Miami won 111:108, and Tyler Hierroooo scored, hitting 10 three-pointers and scoring 41 points. Jimmy Butler was also very effective, but Duncan Robinson and Max Struz combined for only 4 of 22 shots from beyond the arc.

Tyler Hirro had an outstanding game against Houston, but the rest of the team didn't do much. Miami is struggling without Adebayo and Lowry. Without two of their starting five, the Heat's roster won't be much better than that San Antonio's Spurs looked decent offensively against Portland. Now they should be able to improve as Collins and Poll return to action. The Spurs beat the Heat on the road less than a week ago for a reason, and it makes sense to expect them to do it again.

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