Miami's Monday night loss featured Dwyane Wade's worst night from the field in his career when he's taken at least 10 shots

Miami's Monday night loss featured Dwyane Wade's worst night from the field in his career when he's taken at least 10 shots

It was the first blowout defeat nfl jersey since Wade, James and Bosh teamed up with the Heat; Miami's first five losses came by a combined 20 points.

And it was decisive in many ways.

Indiana outrebounded Miami 48-39, forced 22 turnovers while committing 13, outscored the Heat 38-18 in the paint, and had more assists (26) than the Heat had field goals (24). When it was over, Wade stood at midcourt, frustrated expression on his face.

Now 14 games into this season of championship expectations, the Heat are 8-6. At this time a year ago, they were 9-5.

"We're in a position where we're going to get everybody's best and we haven't jelled as a team," Bosh said. "This is what we asked for coming into it, and we just have to keep going."

Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Carlos Arroyo each scored 12 for Miami.

Here's a perfect mlb jerseys example of how the night went for Miami: With 1:16 left, James and Bosh both leaped for a defensive rebound. They both missed it, both fell over backwards, and the ball went to Indiana.

"Sometimes," Spoelstra said, "you have four or five games where nothing seems to go right."

Wade missed his last nine shots of Friday's game against Charlotte, when he was battling flulike symptoms. He didn't play Saturday in Memphis, then made just one of his 13 shots against the Pacers.

So over that span, he's gone a baffling 1 for 22 from the field.

And when Wade got an attempt to finally fall, it didn't count -- a tribute to the level of defense Indiana played all night.

Wade drove into the lane from the right wing midway through the third quarter, tossed up a shot off the board and in -- only to have it waved off by Solomon Jones drawing a charge on the play. Wade attacked Jones again on the next Miami possession, got his layup blocked, then got a technical foul out of frustration.

"Our key was to go on every screen [and] make him shoot it because we knew the wrist was still bothering him," Rush said. "And that's what we did."

Not even two minutes later, the 7-foot-3, 260-pound Ilgauskas was called for a charge against 6-foot, 160-pound Darren Collison, who had no problem standing tall against a man who looks twice his nfl jerseys size.

It was that sort of night for the Pacers.

They took the fight to Miami, with one sequence in the third quarter maybe summing it all up best. Indiana held the ball for 54 straight seconds on one possession -- an absolute eternity in a game with a 24-second shot clock.

The strange series began with 1:18 left in the third, when James missed a 3-pointer and Indiana controlled the rebound. Ford had a layup blocked and got his own rebound. Granger missed a 3-pointer, with Jones getting the offensive board. Granger missed another jumper, Jones getting yet another long rebound, and then Granger misfired yet again from beyond the arc.

Magloire ended the possession with a defensive rebound, James made two free throws at the other end, and the Heat were down 74-64 entering the fourth. But Miami never got closer than seven the rest of the way.

"We're not having fun right now," James said.

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