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Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles was at a loss for words.

And that was before his team fell 114-96 to the Miami Heat on Monday night at the Bradley Center.

It's almost as if he knew what was coming.

"If you just look at them statistically," Skiles said going in, "it's hard to figure out how they lost seven. I don't know how we beat them twice."

This time, behind 35 points from LeBron James, the Heat made sure they didn't provide any answers, as they now attempt to offer one of the rarest answers of this lockout-compressed season.

With Monday's victory, the Heat not only avoided their first season sweep at the hands of the Bucks since 1990-91, but now also have won the first two games of their lone set of three-games-in-three-nights. So far only the Chicago Bulls and Oklahoma City Thunder have swept such compilations.

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