MIAMI — On March 10, there was no pushback from the Washington Wizards, merely Heat center Bam Adebayo pushing aside a lottery-leaning opponent on the way to 83 points.

But now, over these final five games of the Heat’s regular season, there will be ample opportunity to push back, should the still lottery-leaning Wizards choose to do so, first on Saturday afternoon at Kaseya Center and then on Thursday night at Capital One Arena, in the Heat’s regular-season road finale.

“I’m sure there will be,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said after Friday’s practice of potential Wizards pushback. “And we’re playing all of our games expecting that teams are going to bring their best. Hopefully that brings out a better level in us.

“Washington will probably be motivated more so than in a normal game.”

And if the Wizards do get physical against him?

“I’m going to shoot 43 throws again,” Adebayo said with a smile.

In the immediate wake of Adebayo scoring 83 — second in NBA history only to Wilt Chamberlain’s mythical 100 — in  a 150-129 blowout victory, Wizards coach Brian Keefe questioned the means to that end.

“The fourth quarter,” Keefe said on game night, “just turned into not a real basketball game.”

In the wake of ensuing criticism of the look of piling on, Adebayo put the onus on Keefe.

“You should be blaming their head coach. Get that first,” Adebayo said last month. “I was not the one letting me go one-on-one the whole game until I had 70 and then you started to send a double.”

Friday, Adebayo said he could see Wizards players potentially taking matters into their own hands.

“I mean, nobody wants to get 80 dropped on them,” he said. “So I expect the players to, you know, they might just go off script and not listen to (Keefe) and try something else.”

In a season of Heat mediocrity, March 10 stood as arguably the most entertaining night at Kaseya Center, now with the possibility of not even a single postseason game at the Heat’s arena.

In the immediate wake of that game, Adebayo was unapologetic.

“I got 70 with, like, what, nine minutes left to go in the game? You think I’m not going for it?” Adebayo said of a night that made regular-season Heat-Wizards compelling. “And that’s the thing that’s crazy when they talk about the ‘unethical’ part of the basketball.”

With the Wizards sitting out anyone and everyone who could potential enhance their victory chances, it could come down to whether they this time can stay out of foul trouble. In his 83-point effort, Adebayo closed of 36 for 43 from the foul line.

And, no, those calls did not sit well with Keefe.

“They obviously kept him in the game, and there was a lot of foul calls, 16 free throws in the fourth quarter,” Keefe said. “He still got some free throws 40 feet from the rim. Can’t explain some of those calls, but that’s all I’ve got to say on that.”

So perhaps more double-teams this time around?

“That’s their coach’s decision,” Adebayo said Friday with a smile.

Whether there is pushback or not, it’s not as if the two matchups against the Wizards necessarily can be considered givens, considering the Heat this season have lost twice, including last Sunday, to the tanking Indian Pacers, as well as losses to the tanking Sacramento Kings and Utah Jazz.

“We’ll still play them twice,” Spoelstra said of the Wizards, with the Heat 2-0 in the four-game season series. “We’re not looking for help from anybody. This is up to us right now.”

While Adebayo’s numbers could be debated, the victory over the Wizards was significant at the time for the Heat, part of a seven-game winning streak.

This time around, it’s about play-in seeding, leaving neither the Heat nor the lose-a-thon Wizards in a great place entering Saturday’s game.

“Take it one game at a time,” Adebayo said when asked about his team’s play-in reality, with the Heat having dropped 8 of their last 10 and the Wizards 18 of their last 20. “We’ve got five games left. And after that, we’ll figure it out from there.”