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"We knew that we'd better be on top of our game," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said after his team closed the series with a 106-94 victory in Game 5. "We'd better, not only compete and play at an incredible effort and force level, but we'd better play well, because this is one of the hottest teams in the league, despite a lot of the adversities that they'd been in."
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