WASHINGTON — Observations and other notes of interest from Monday night’s 120-94 victory over the Washington Wizards:
– The palate has been cleansed.
– The 76ers and Wizards arguably the perfect appetizers to restore confidence.
– Because the next three games will require at least that from Erik Spoelstra’s team.
– For all that has gone right during this resurrecting winning streak, there also is the reality of the five-game winning run being built with Charlotte, Philadelphia and Washington as part of that scheduling.
– Next up are the Celtics on Wednesday night at TD Garden.
– Then the Grizzlies on Thursday night at Kaseya Center.
– Followed by the Bucks on Saturday night at home.
– So no, no longer being able to seize upon the chum in lottery waters.
– And also tests of how real this all really is.
– As it was, with Washington in the modest of a league-worst tank-a–thon, it meant plenty of unknowns in the Wizards’ rotations.
– Asked about having to work around such a scout of uncertainty, Spoelstra said pregame, “There’s a couple different things to that. We always want to go through our prep and be professional about it, and going through the report and what are the keys.”
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– He added, “But what we’ve been focusing on the last several weeks is just us. We need to fast track it. We’ve been working on our process. We have been hammering our habits and style of play that we can wrap our hands around that can lead to winning. We’ve been getting more consistent with that.”
– Spoelstra was asked at the morning shootaround about the Heat’s scoring balance in recent games, something a bit less the case in this ...
