It’s time to give Heat coach Spoelstra credit — even if it’s unwanted Ask him to compare, just expect it to go nowhere. Where does this season rank among Erik Spoelstra’s eight as Heat coach? “Oh, I don’t know,” he scoffed. “I’m too far in the trees right now.” If he is, this is the rare time over the past few months that he hasn’t been battling some brush fire, coming off a dismantling of the Charlotte Hornets in Game 1 of the first round. Yet he still won’t give you an answer, not if he senses you’re angling to give him credit. He has changed some this season, changed more into himself, but he has not changed enough to make anything about himself. Not even after 399 regular-season wins (.623 percentage) and 64 playoff wins (fifth-most in history in the first 100 games). So he would never say what somebody should say: He has done good work this season, probably his best. Better than his first two seasons (2008-09, 2009-10) in which he took limited teams, other than prime superstar Dwyane Wade, to the postseason. - See more at: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/ethan-j-skolnick/article72759217.html
