MIAMI — If nothing else, if it even is a problem, Erik Spoelstra and his Miami Heat coaching staff have 8,580 minutes to address a 72-minute issue.

The 72 minutes is the time Tyler Herro has spent playing alongside Norman Powell since Herro returned from September ankle surgery. The 8,580 minutes is the Heat’s current break between  Tuesday night elimination from the NBA Cup in Orlando and the resumption of their schedule,  Monday’s 7:30 p.m. game against the Toronto Raptors at Kaseya Center.

The issue/problem is the Heat not nearly competing at the same level as when Powell was operating at leasing man and Herro was working his way back.

The reality is the Heat are 3-3 since Herro’s return, the exact same record as they opened the season with.

So, no, Spoelstra said, sky not falling, and pairing not flawed.

“That’ll be fine,” he said, with the Heat scheduled to resume practicing Friday at Kaseya Center in the midst of this five-day break. “We’ll have that opportunity in games to work on that. They’ve been working on it behind the scenes.

“That’ll continue to get better.”

Concern about overlap, Spoelstra said, is overkill.

“If you have the skill level that they have, that they both can shoot the basketball, they both can put the ball on the floor and they both want to make it work,” he said, “based on my experience, those things work out. And we need it, we need it quite frankly.

“As we move forward we need our firepower.”

Accepting him for what he is, an elite scorer, Herro has been elite in that regard in his return, with splits in his six games back of .505 from the field, .405 on 3-pointers and .923 from the foul line. Those first two percentages would be career highs, with the free-throw number just percentage points off his career high.

All of that has him with a career-best effective field-goal percentage of .581, surpassing his .563 in that regard last season, when he was an All-Star for the lone time in his seven seasons. As for his overall contributions, his box score plus/minus is a career-best +3.9 per 100 possessions, dramatically ahead of his career +0.7.

Still, there is a sense of Herro and Powell needing to get on the same page.

“Really important,” said team captain Bam Adebayo. “Obviously you get guys back, things are going to change, it’s going to shift. But we’re adults in here. We’ve got to figure out how to make this work.”

The Kel’el factor

And then there is the shifting role of center Kel’el Ware, who, with Herro and Powell both available, was shuffled back to the bench in the loss in Orlando.

The result was only 12:27 of action, after playing at least 22 minutes in eight of his previous nine appearances.

“We just want to be open to the possibilities with Kel’el,” Spoelstra said. “He has great potential. He’s getting better. It’s not linear improvement. Sometimes there’s big jumps. Sometimes it’s a step back. And that’s what typically happens with young players.

“But I just really appreciate his approach every day. He comes in every day open to the coaching and us driving him to get to a higher level. The expectations are for us to win.”

Jaquez gives back

On Wednesday, Heat forward Jaime Jaquez Jr., in partnership with Raising Cane’s, donated 100 children’s bikes and helmets, along with toys, to the Boys & Girls Club of Miami-Dade, at an event  at Gwen Cherry Park in Northwest Miami-Dade . . .

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