Refreshed in body and spirit, the Miami Heat returned to practice reunited and refocused.
There was no looking back. No heartfelt apologies given. No need for a detailed autopsy of Dwyane Wade's ugly sideline exchange with coach Eric Spoelstra in Game 3.
What's done is done. All that's for another day. Right now, it's time to save the season.
''We move on,'' Wade said.
Down 2-1 in the Eastern Conference semifinals to the ready-to-rumble Indiana Pacers, the Heat were back on the floor Saturday after staying away from Bankers Life Fieldhouse for a day to decompress following their stunning 94-75 loss, a defeat amplified by the clash between Wade and Spoelstra during a timeout in the third quarter.
On Friday, Wade drove to Bloomington, Ind., and visited Indiana coach Tom Crean, his college coach for three years at Marquette. LeBron James went to the movies, catching ''The Dictator.'' Spoelstra joked that he locked away the keys to the team bus so players couldn't get to the arena.
''We wanted to get away,'' Spoelstra said as his team prepared for Sunday's Game 4.
Wade, who scored just five points on 2-of-13 shooting and had five turnovers in Thursday's blowout, insists that any apparent problems with Spoelstra were overblown. He downplayed their fiery spat.
''Things happen,'' said Wade, who refused to acknowledge his quarrel with Spoelstra following the game. ''In a perfect world a lot of things would go differently, but it's not a perfect world. A lot of stuff in our game is in the heat of the battle, emotional-type things. When something happens, it happens and we move on as a team.
''Me and coach have been together for nine years in some capacity. We've had many different conversations, some like that and some not. It wasn't the first, it won't the last. We know how to move on from things and we know each other wants the best for each other.''
''There's no harm done. We're a family.''
Spoelstra knows the dispute didn't look good to the outside world, but it's just part of professional sports.
There was no looking back. No heartfelt apologies given. No need for a detailed autopsy of Dwyane Wade's ugly sideline exchange with coach Eric Spoelstra in Game 3.
What's done is done. All that's for another day. Right now, it's time to save the season.
''We move on,'' Wade said.
Down 2-1 in the Eastern Conference semifinals to the ready-to-rumble Indiana Pacers, the Heat were back on the floor Saturday after staying away from Bankers Life Fieldhouse for a day to decompress following their stunning 94-75 loss, a defeat amplified by the clash between Wade and Spoelstra during a timeout in the third quarter.
On Friday, Wade drove to Bloomington, Ind., and visited Indiana coach Tom Crean, his college coach for three years at Marquette. LeBron James went to the movies, catching ''The Dictator.'' Spoelstra joked that he locked away the keys to the team bus so players couldn't get to the arena.
''We wanted to get away,'' Spoelstra said as his team prepared for Sunday's Game 4.
Wade, who scored just five points on 2-of-13 shooting and had five turnovers in Thursday's blowout, insists that any apparent problems with Spoelstra were overblown. He downplayed their fiery spat.
''Things happen,'' said Wade, who refused to acknowledge his quarrel with Spoelstra following the game. ''In a perfect world a lot of things would go differently, but it's not a perfect world. A lot of stuff in our game is in the heat of the battle, emotional-type things. When something happens, it happens and we move on as a team.
''Me and coach have been together for nine years in some capacity. We've had many different conversations, some like that and some not. It wasn't the first, it won't the last. We know how to move on from things and we know each other wants the best for each other.''
''There's no harm done. We're a family.''
Spoelstra knows the dispute didn't look good to the outside world, but it's just part of professional sports.
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