MIAMI — Where some see harrowing, Erik Spoelstra sees helpful.

So those tight, tense, even troubling Miami Heat finishes against the lowly Los Angeles Clippers, Sacramento Kings and Utah Jazz on the just completed 10-day western swing? Embraced by the Heat coach.

“The more times you can go through these kind of late-game, clutch situations for a team, you get better from that,” Spoelstra said, with the Heat next turning their attention to the five-game homestand that opens Friday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Kaseya Center and continues Saturday night against the Detroit Pistons.

From the start of this rebuild with Giannis Antetokounmpo, the ongoing question had been about the lack of perimeter closer, a polished, proven, youthful, energetic go-to scorer able to create off the dribble in the tightest of finishes.

Basically, what Antetokounmpo had during his Milwaukee Bucks best of times with Khris Middleton and what the Bucks thought would work with pre-injury Damian Lillard in their follow-up iteration.

To Antetokounmpo, Klay Thompson arguably stands closest on the current roster, with his overtime 3-pointer against the Clippers completing that escape act.

“Klay is one of those guys that probably can get to his spots and close the game,” Antetokounmpo said. “And I feel like I’m getting more comfortable doing that, too.”

Thompson, of course, also is 36 and typically has been a secondary option in such situations, be it alongside Stephen Curry, Luka Doncic or Cooper Flagg.

In Tuesday night’s victory in Utah, Pelle Larsson was somewhat cast as wing closer, with four late points, but also three late turnovers.

“Pelle will get better from it,” Spoelstra said, with Larsson starting the past two games in place of Andrew Wiggins. “He always really takes it to heart, and he was going a little bit too methodical, I think, at that point in the game, where there needs to be a burst of quick reads. But he’ll figure that out. We trust him.”

The Heat’s 5-6 record to this point has included five outings that qualify as “clutch games” by the NBA’s designation of being within five points at any point in the game’s final five minutes. The Heat lost the first two of those clutch games, against the Charlotte Hornets and Dallas Mavericks but now have won their last three clutch games, against the Clippers, Kings and Jazz.

“We trust everybody there at the end to have their chance to make plays,” Spoelstra said of the collective approach at stages when dominant teams tend to feature a single dominant scorer.

Of that collective approach, the Heat exited Tuesday night’s victory in Utah with Antetokounmpo ranked first in the league in clutch offensive rebounds across his 16 clutch minutes, with Davion Mitchell ranked eight in the league in fourth-quarter scoring, and, certainly unexpectedly, with Thompson fifth in the NBA in clutch-time blocks per game, with his chase-down block helping seal Tuesday night’s victory over the Jazz.

“It’s going to take time,” center Bam Adebayo said of the Heat becoming more efficient during closing time. “Obviously, you want everybody to be comfortable. You want everybody to be comfortable in that fourth quarter and everybody be in their right spots and understand what we’re doing.”

In the end, the Heat have gotten by with late-game offensive rebounding and getting to the foul line in those late minutes to offset what has been a paltry .368 true shooting percentage during their clutch minutes.

“We’ll have to get really detailed with our execution,” Spoelstra said of more polish at finishes than those hectic final ticks against the Clippers, Kings and Jazz. “I don’t need to go through all the little details, but . . . everybody wants to make the play at the end, and that’s admirable. But sometimes you have to trust and let somebody else make the play.”

And sometimes you simply need to go through the process.

“I think as the game goes on, we are going to be better in that,” Antetokounmpo said of the Heat’s play in clutch minutes, “We haven’t played a lot of down-the-stretch minutes. Most of the games that we’ve lost, we’ve been down 15, down 20. And some of the games that we won, we had the opportunity to play down the stretch.

“So again, I feel like with more reps, it will look better and we will have better direction what we’re trying to get from each possession. But yeah, we need more reps for sure.”

Which had the Heat back on their own practice court Thursday for the first time in 11 days, with Antetokounmpo citing basketball’s version of two-minute drills.

“There’s going to be times that we’re going to have like two minutes on the clock,” he said, “have some plays, down the stretch plays that we’re going to run and try to execute and get the shot that we want. So that can translate to the game.

“But also like playing good teams, or any teams, and have like a lot of possession down the stretch, or even at the end of the quarters, that helps. That can expedite the process for any team. And I think we need that.”