MIAMI ã— Observations and other notes of interest from Tuesday night’s 112-91 loss to the Toronto Raptors:

– Self-confidence is one thing.

– Self-will is another.

– This is not a team with a do-it-alone player.

– Jalen Brunson is not walking through that door.

– Neither is Zach LaVine.

– Or others who have toasted victory over the Heat in December.

– When it all was working in lockstep in October and November, the ball movement and off-the-dribble creativity were enough to overcome a degree of talent deficit.

– Apparently that came with an expiration date.

– Instead, it’s Andrew Wiggins and Simone Fontecchio going off the dribble.

– Norman Powell launching in the tightest of spaces.

– Bam Adebayo coming up short on short jumpers.

– Individually it’s not working.

– So perhaps a play call?

– Perhaps return strategy to the equation?

– Add it back in?

– Something needs to change.

– Because self-will isn’t it.

– The Heat now a .500 team.

– And fading.

– Yes, the defense hasn’t been gangbusters lately.

– But this is a scoring league.

– A pick-and-roll league.

– So maybe the Heat weren’t so right, the other teams so wrong.

– The Heat again opened with Wiggins, Powell, Adebayo, Kel’el Ware and Davion Mitchell.

– Adebayo is now two games from tying Alonzo Mourning on the Heat’s all-time regular-season games list.

– Jaime Jaquez Jr. again was first off the Heat bench, entering with the Heat down 16-3, and immediately scoring on his first possession.

– Kasparas Jakucionis, Dru Smith and Fontecchio were next off the Heat bench.

– Asked pregame about Ware’s recent breakout, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra spoke of it not being a surprise, but how it also has to be accompanied by winning.

– “I think he had been stacking some good days. And you do that long enough and eventually you start to get some results,” Spoelstra said. “His practice sessions were good, film sessions, shootarounds were good. I’m talking about like six weeks ago, when it wasn’t necessarily translating to consistency.”

– Spoelstra added, “And he’s still young. So it’s not always going to be linear. It’s going to be some non-linear jumps. I want there to be some surprises not only with Kel’el, but with other guys. He’s handling it appropriately.”

– Again, Spoelstra stressed that Ware respects it also has to be a team thing.

– “He’s being held accountable to winning things,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be like a negative thing. We’re trying. We all want the same thing. We want a better result. We want growth faster. I want him to be like he’s 28, and that’s not realistic. And a little bit of impatience is good, as long as he handles it appropriately.”

– Powell extended his streak of games scoring in double figures to 28, seven off the longest such run of his career.