"Midway through the third quarter, with his team's lethargy reaching the point where he was forced to call plays from the bench, Erik Spoelstra informed his team to run, "C-Rip."

Most of the way in this one, the Heat played like "C-rap."

The difference between this slop and similar slop Sunday against the Milwaukee Bucks is Spoelstra's team somehow found a way to turn something equally ugly into a 92-85 victory Tuesday night over the Cleveland Cavaliers at AmericanAirlines Arena.

"It wasn't an all-together smoothly played game," Spoelstra understated, "but there, at the end, regardless of how you get there, we were able to get a handful of stops and then able to execute down the stretch.""