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Miami Finds Systematic Path to Victory

The plan was to get the Heat into a fullcourt game, make them run, wear out the bodies on the diluted roster that had played the previous night in Toronto and didn't arrive at their Indianapolis hotel room until about 2:30 Wednesday morning.

What was it Mike Tyson said? Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the nose.

Miami smacked the Pacers with a 38-point first quarter, led by as many as 16 midway through the second period and held off their frantic rally with late-game precision for an improbable 114-106 victory at Bankers Life Fieldhouse that ruined their hopes for a sweep of their four-game homestand.