The Miami Heat will look to tie their playoff series against the Chicago Bulls at home Wednesday night at 7 pm ET.
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Dropping Game 1 of the East semifinals to the Bulls on Monday night was hardly what the Heat wanted, though could end up serving as a wake-up call for a team that made it through a 66-win regular season without many rough patches.
"We haven't lost in a while, so it was very different to come in here and deal with a loss and to deal with it in the playoffs at home," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said after a video-and-practice session. "It was different from the standpoint of what we've been used to lately, but not anything different from what we've been used to as a team. We've been in tough moments. We've lost games before."
Chicago's 93-86 win in the series opener was filled with statistical anomalies, such as Miami shooting just under 40 percent (its second-worst showing in 87 games overall this season) and the Bulls scoring 35 points in the fourth quarter -- matching the most the Heat allowed in the final 12 minutes of regulation all season.
Still, the Heat know some things still need to change, and in a hurry, or else the reigning champions could be in a gigantic amount of trouble.
"Playoffs are all about revealing who you are," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "It's either a win or a loss, and so we lost the first game. We have to figure it out, somehow, some way, to win the next game. And that's all it is.
"We have to fight for our playoff lives right now, to play a much harder and much more committed game together tomorrow night."
