The defending champion Miami Heat are the best team in the league, and they know it.
That certainly has its perks (see: 27-game winning streak, 43-4 record since Jan. 16), but it has some potential pitfalls, too. Miami knows it's always a run away from breaking a game wide open, so coach Erik Spoelstra sometimes struggles to get his players to commit to a full 48-minute effort against inferior competition.
And despite what Brandon Jennings might think (via Bob Wolfley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), the eighth-seeded Bucks are just that: inferior competition.
So it came as little surprise that Miami relatively stumbled out of the gate in Game 2 against the Bucks, relative in the sense that they largely controlled the game but needed a spark to put the contest safely away.
And, as he's been known to do every now and then during his illustrious 10-year career, Dwyane Wade gave his club that spark.
When Mario Chalmers squared up for an uncontested elbow jumper midway through the third quarter, Wade crashed the glass from somewhere near AmericanAirlines Arena's main concourse for a vicious putback slam over a leaping Monta Elli ...
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