So despite lacking a Miami Heat-like team, which often dictates the game on both ends of the floor, Atlantic teams often place a higher priority on one particular thing.
Forward Chris Bosh for the Heat, credits his team's aggressiveness for the volume of free throw attempts.
The Heat are a talented team, far better than New York, and it's supposed to be 81 in Miami on Wednesday.
"Coach Riley gets paid close to six figures for his speeches, " Spoelstra said, referring to former Heat coach and current team president Pat Riley.
Last month against the Heat a team that cut him in 2009 the 5-foot-11 Lucas scored a career-high 24 points, including nail-in-the-coffin jumper over a startled LeBron James.
The one decision he made catching the most heat was sitting the team of Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley in the final team match on Saturday, after they had played so well throughout the first three matches.
Plays like this have become routine in Thompson's season: In a recent home game against the Miami Heat, with his team leading 44-33 in the second quarter, Thompson caught a pass on the lane's left side, about 12 feet away from the basket.
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They were a 21st century team heat-seeking and shameless and eager for attention, good or bad.
But what is so impressive about this achievement has been that Wenger has been able to make the progress with this young team in the heat of the Premiership.
He returned to Liverpool in 1992 with Anfield fully expecting him to turn the heat back up under the team which had gone off the boil a little from the glory days of the 1970 and 80s.
Anyone who watched the Heat's 100-67 victory in Saturday's Game 1 knows that the Heat are a determined basketball team eager to win a title, and the Knicks probably need a semester in Prague to find themselves.
The 14 other Heat players were dressed casually in team garb, while James donned a dapper suit for the festivities.
In a show of solidarity, all the Miami Heat took a photo wearing the team's hoodies, with their hands stuffed in their pockets.
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Heat center Chris Bosh said the team grew from that experience.
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LeBron James and those other guys who play for some team called the Miami Heat will drop by the Barclays Center on Wednesday, with the Chicago Bulls in Friday.
Ms. Saunders, who owns Phoenyx Fitness in New York, had competed in several fitness competitions and coaches a 32-member team called the Elite Heat, which helps women learn to lead a healthy lifestyle and prepare for these shows.
James scored 30 points, Ray Allen had another big game against his old team and the Miami Heat got their first playoff sweep in the Big Three era, advancing to the Eastern Conference semifinals with an 88-77 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday.
His game changing decision can also be measured by the effects it has had on other players.. Superstar Dwight Howard has already followed a similar path by forcing a trade to the Kobe Bryant-led Los Angeles Lakers from the New York Knicks, attempting to pull together a team to rival the Heat.
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The chance for No. 27 comes Monday against Orlando, a team that has taken the Heat to the limit twice already this season.
"If there's any group that would be motivated in a circumstance like this, it's that team in green, " Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.
Toronto is the third team with multiple losses to the Heat during the streak.
Later in the afternoon, the President will welcome the NBA Champion Miami Heat to the White House to honor the team and their 2012 NBA Championship victory.
Heat President Pat Riley played for the Lakers team that won 33 in a row, and remained silent throughout Miami's streak, mainly because he rarely gives interviews these days but more so because the official team stance was that it simply did not matter.
Miller made one on the team's third attempt of the night, about 2 minutes after tipoff, and the Heat the league's second-best 3-point shooting team this season entering the game went on to miss their next 15 tries from long range.
The team also did this without informing the Heat, the media, or the league office in a timely way.
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"I don't think that team will lack confidence against anybody, " Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.
Heat President Pat Riley, who played for the Lakers team that won 33 in a row, remained silent throughout Miami's streak both because he rarely gives interviews these days because the official team stance was that it simply did not matter.
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"I do not expect to walk into a team and understand there's a lot of heat on my name at the moment, " he said.
To make matters worse, they play just a few miles away from perhaps the hottest team in professional sports these days, the Miami Heat.
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