MIAMI — While the NBA focus remains on leading men, the Miami Heat suddenly find themselves with a decision to make when it comes to best supporting actor.

With Tyler Herro and Davion Mitchell sidelined at the end of the Heat’s five-game western swing, it allowed ample opportunity for both rookie Kasparas Jakucionis and franchise mainstay Dru Smith.

But eventually — barring a trade — with Herro and Mitchell back in the mix, there will only be so much depth required in the backcourt.

While Jakucionis started the past three games in place of Mitchell, it was Smith who stepped up in the victories in Utah and Phoenix over the weekend that helped the Heat close out the trip at 3-2, as the team turns its attention to Wednesday night’s game against the Orlando Magic at Kaseya Center.

“Dru was great both games,” coach Erik Spoelstra said. “It was almost like a misprint. I think he had five steals (Saturday) night,” Spoelstra said of the victory in Utah, when Smith closed with those five steals, “but I think it was like 13 or 14 deflections. It was crazy.”

As, Spoelstra said, was Smith on Sunday in Phoenix where he closed with 11 points.

“He was all over the place,” Spoelstra said. “And then just that steadying presence.

“He was just super disciplined, super aware, communicating the actions. And that’s why he’s one of the more valuable defense players in this league.”

With Jakucionis, at 19, there is the youthful flair.

With Smith, 28, there is the consistency without the flash.

“Dru, man, he’s just so steady,” teammate Jaime Jaquez Jr. said, “so steady all year. And we really trust him with the ball to make plays. And he really just does produce on so many levels offensively and defensively.”

Smith said he appreciates the decisions Spoelstra must make, and then works from there.

“I think I just go into the games just trying to stay ready,” Smith said. “And whatever minutes come my way, then I just try to make the most of them. So not really thinking too much about that, just while I’m out there trying to impact the game.”

Board control

At the start of the season, the Heat found themselves as the talk of the league with their move to league-leading offensive pace.

Now, the talking point is the Heat’s offensive rebounding, which was dominant the final two games of the trip, with a 26-7 advantage on the offensive glass on Saturday night in Utah and then 18 more offensive rebounds in Sunday night’s victory in Phoenix.

At 11th overall in the NBA offensive rebounding, at 11.9 per game, the Heat led the NBA in offensive rebounding over their five-game trip, at 18 per game.

“They’ve done it the last handful of games, top five, if not the best offensive rebounding team in the last five games,” Suns coach Jordan Ott correctly said after his team’s Sunday loss. “So we knew it coming in.”

The assault on the offensive glass came in the absence of 7-footer Kel’el Ware, who was sidelined the entire trip with a hamstring strain.

“And they don’t do it with their overall seven footers, per se,” Ott said, with the Heat playing no one taller than 6-foot-10 Nikola Jovic during the trip and starting 6-9 Bam Adebayo at center and 6-7 Andrew Wiggins at power forward. “They just do it with their length.”

Doing, Spoelstra said, what is necessary.

“We want to make the efforts to go to the glass,” he said. “You can stand and watch, you can stand and kind of shuffle back, or you can make an effort.

“We’ve been shooting more threes, so those are good opportunities to crash on the glass.”

Impressive, Ott said.

“They’re not playing with two traditional bigs, and they’re still getting there,” Ott said. “So that’s something different that they’re doing.”

Green space

The Heat and Amerant Bank volunteers are partnering with Miami-Dade County’s Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) to support ecological restoration at Matheson Hammock Park this Thursday.

The effort includes planting 150 native trees, cleaning shoreline litter and removing exotic plant species from sensitive habitats.

Among those to be in attendance are the Heat’s Bob McAdoo and Ruth Hunter, as well as Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.