--F Udonis Haslem was the only person speaking during a second-quarter timeout Saturday at Charlotte, and he was speaking passionately.
"If we lose a ballgame or the best team won that night, we move on and we go home and we regroup the troops," Haslem said. "But I refuse to come in here and lose just because they took it from us, they were more physical than us, and they wanted it more than us. That's not the way we want to lose." --Miami has a three-day break before its next game, and it's a much-needed break. Charlotte systematically dismantled Miami. The Heat has lost at New York, 120-115, defeated Sacramento at home, 103-77, and lost at Charlotte, 100-87.
The last game was the most painful.
"They just took us out of it right from the beginning," coach Erik Spoelstra said.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "They're young; they're still trying to understand what they've got. Don't sleep on them. They're going to be pretty good." -- Charlotte executive and NBA legend Michael Jordan on the Heat.
