HEAT Head Coach Stan Van Gundy

On the game and Heat:
“Obviously, just a horrible, horrible performance. We haven’t had one of those in a long time. We’ve probably had as long a stretch as anybody in the league without having one of those. So, I don’t want to go overboard, but we’ve sort of been building toward that in terms of our defense. Even the last two home games, we haven’t defended until the fourth quarter. I said it after last night’s game, the confidence is growing too much and we got to the point of thinking we could bail ourselves out at the end and just win on our offense. So, when you have a night where nothing goes well offensively, you can’t even stay in the game because there’ no defensive disposition. I think the major thing we have to do over the last two games, obviously we want to win and get up as high as we can in the standings, but the No. 1 thing in the next two games is we have to get a defensive disposition back. I did not think we competed hard defensively tonight. Offensively, you’re going to have a game like that every once in a while—it was pathetic. Everything we did was bad. We couldn’t do anything, but we should have at least been able to stay within shouting distance just with our defense, but we couldn’t do that.”

On Heat injury situation:
“I don’t have any idea right now. Everybody but Coran (Butler) could have come back. Lamar (Odom) said he wanted to come back. At that point I asked Ron (Culp, team trainer) should we and he said probably not, it wasn’t worth it at that point. The same thing with Brian (Grant). Brian would have played, he didn’t have much tonight, I thought, after a great game last night on the back to back. There was no sense bringing him back. The only positive of the night was that we got some of those other guys to play some extended minutes.”

On Cleveland:
“Cleveland played very well. Maybe the pressure of not being in the playoff race anymore and having a meaningless game, they just relaxed and played. They looked like a totally different team playing tonight when it didn’t mean anything as they did last night when it meant something.”

HEAT Guard Dwyane Wade

On the Heat tonight:
“We didn’t play with any energy and it wasn’t just one or two guys. It was the whole team. Guys really didn’t have energy and against a team that came in and really didn’t have anything to lose and they came in with a lot of energy. It was the difference from start to finish.”

On the Heat’s problems in recent games magnified tonight:
“We’ve been playing with fire, I think, especially in the last couple of games coming back in the fourth to win. Even thought these games will come where you’ve got to sit down and re-evaluate what you’re doing, so I think it’s good. It’s not a good thing to say, but it kind of was (wake up call for Miami) because it did get us back to our defensive mindset.”

On possible loss of homecourt advantage for playoffs:
“It really doesn’t matter at this time. I mean, we’re still shooting for thed homecourt, but we’re in the playoffs and wherever we have to go, we have to go.”

HEAT Center Brian Grant

On Miami’s defense of late and tonight:
“We have to keep our defensive approach to the game. I think you have to look at it as success. You take antiflammatories to help your knees, but there’s side effects to it. You have success, and the side effect to success is you start getting too confident, you start playing a lot less ‘D’, you start doing a lot of things, little bad-habit things that eventually catch up to you. You still want to have the success, but now you have to be able to cut out the little die effects for success.”

Cavaliers Head Coach Paul Silas

On Jeff McInnis:
“Well he leads the charge and we all follow. It’s just an impossibility to play a system without his production so it’s just a whole different ball game.”

On finishing the season hard:
“Well they knew I was not going to allow that. I mean we talked about it, but they know they have to play hard. I am just happy to get win and get the monkey off our back. We got two more; if we win those two we had a heck of a season.”

Is there an advantage playing a team back-to-back:
“Well normally the game at home favors the home team. Of course it’s just tough to beat a team twice in a row. We beat that team (Miami) three in a row when I was with Charlotte, killed them, 20 points every night.”

Nice effort from the bench:
“Yes, I thought Tony really came in and gave us a big lift. DeSagana was good, Juanny, Lee Nailon they all played really well. Kedrick played good basketball. I was just happy for them to get this win.”

Cavaliers Guard LeBron James

On the win:
“It feels great we know the position we are in right now we have no chance at making the playoffs so we’re out there just having fun. We’re out there just playing to hopefully get a win, just throwing it all out.”

Has this been a smashing success this year?
“If we get one of these two wins we’ll double the wins from last year and that’s just a big success. To come that far and to have basically three different teams this whole year.”

What is it like playing in front of 15th sellout:
“You know it’s fun, every night you go out and play in front of this crowd you know it is going to be electrifying. There is no way you should not have a lot of energy, but we just try to do our part and the crowd does their part. It’s like a 50/50 thing.”

What do you need to work on?
“Everything, every single part of my game to make my team better. I am going to do a lot of shooting, a lot of shooting. I will make sure I will be a lot better shooter next year. I think I have shown that I have improved, from the first game until now.”

Cavaliers Guard Jeff McInnis

On how he felt:
“My injuries are kind of down now. My shoulder is sore, but I have to wait for the summer for that to totally heal. This is the best I’ve felt in a while.”

On difference between tonight and last night:
“I was there. I was there to help my team. Like the guys have been saying, when you lose your point guard, it’s hard. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it works out. For us, it has been causing us problems. As for me, I just wanted to get in there and play. We aren’t making the playoffs, but we have to go in there and compete.”

On his contributions to the team:
“I know I can play. I’m a point guard. That is what points guard do, they make their teams go. I’ve been doing that, and never got the credit, and now I’m finally getting credit.”

On the injuries:
“I can’t control injuries. It was bad because I’ve never gotten hurt in my whole career. We were in the midst of a 7-game win streak and I go down. That was the hardest thing for me, the frustration.”

Cavaliers Forward/Center Carlos Boozer

On everyone being healthy:
“It is a lot different. We get a lot of transition points. Turnovers go way down. We play better. Coach gets everyone involved, and the defense picks up.”

On Miami’s 28% Shooting:
“That’s incredible. That means we are active. We were really active tonight, and if we play like that, we are tough to beat."