MIAMI — Now time for the Miami Heat to rest, recover, recuperate . . . and reassess?

Having been eliminated from the NBA Cup with Tuesday night’s 117-108 road loss to the Orlando Magic, the Heat find themselves in the midst of the biggest gap in their schedule outside of February’s All-Star break.

It is a gap that also comes amid the Heat’s longest losing streak of the season, which reached four on Tuesday night.

In order to round out the Heat’s schedule back to the 82-game standard, a Monday night game against the visiting Toronto Raptors is now set for 7:30 p.m. at Kaseya Center, just 45 minutes before the visiting Miami Dolphins play at the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football.

For a disappointed Heat locker room, the break comes at arguably a needed moment.

“There’s always a silver lining,” coach Erik Spoelstra said. “We’ll be able to get a couple of days of just rest, which I think our group needs that right now. But then we can also get some practice time before we play.”

As bad as it was for the Heat in Orlando, when they blew a 15-0 start and early 16-point lead, it could have been worse if the New York Knicks had not defeated the Raptors in the night’s other NBA Cup Eastern Conference quarterfinal. Otherwise, the Heat’s makeup game would have been Sunday in New York and would have left the Heat with 42 road games and 40 home games.

Getting the home game also matters, with the Heat three days after the Monday matchup against Toronto beginning a stretch of three games in four nights on the road against the Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics and Knicks.

As it is, the Heat now will wind up hosting the Raptors twice over a nine-day span, with the Raptors previously having been scheduled at Kaseya Center on Dec. 23. The Heat then will not face the Raptors again until the final week of the season, with their two appearances of the season in Toronto scheduled on April 7 and April 9.

Like the Heat, the Raptors will return reeling, on a four-game losing streak of their own, after an upstart start of the season similar to the Heat.

For the Heat, the hope is the rest leads to a reset, with the team’s offense cratering in recent games, as players are worked back in off injuries.

“I think it’s just gonna continue to take time,” guard Norman Powell said. “When guys are in and out of the lineup, it’s always tough to establish a certain playing style. In regards to an adjustment period, it’s going to take maybe another four or five games for us to build that chemistry up again.

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“Obviously we’re going to take some time . . . rest our bodies, rest our minds and then get back to it and see how we can continue to get better and hopefully go on a four-, five-game winning streak like we had earlier in the season.”

With all the drama of the Cup, including the Heat losing out on the opportunity for the $500,000-plus payday per player for winning the in-season tournament, recalibration now stands as the priority.

“We get a couple of days off, get some rest, get back in the gym, work on some things and then regroup, obviously,” guard Tyler Herro said. “This is a tough stretch right now, but we’ll continue to bounce back and fight like we always do.”

With the loss, the Heat fell to 3-3 with Herro in the lineup, after he missed the start of the season following September ankle surgery and then missed two games last week due to a toe contusion.

“It was my sixth game,” he said. “So coming out here, it is going to be a work in progress, and just got to continue to fight. We are all trying and we want to win and that’s what matters. We’re all intentional.

“So we just got to continue to work at it, continue to get better. I think you’ll see the next couple of days, get a little break and then get right back to it.”

With reset as much as rest seemingly the word of the hour — or hours, considering all the time off until the next game.

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