If the Heat don’t care about this regular season, do we have to keep pretending we do?

All day Thursday, they made the proper comments about working more, playing harder and how having the New York Knicks in town for a nationally televised game was just the tonic to make them care.

“Big game,” Dwyane Wade said.

Then the ball went up and it might as well have been Tuesday in Washington for the effort the Heat gave. Can they tell us when they care again? Or, more to the point, show everyone?

But the primary issue on the first week of December, in the 17th game of the season, is whether they care. Everyone seems to realize that is the issue in Year Three of the Big Three. No one’s made too much noise of the issues, either.

via Dave Hyde of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel