Game 2 featured another blown double-digit lead that precedes a game-tying three-point shot by the team that goes on to lose in overtime. It is like the Toronto Raptors vs. Miami Heat version of “same stuff, different day.” There were countless turnovers by the team that everyone outside of Canada wants to see win.

If you listen to the Heat players talk you will hear a ton of “we should have had both games” and “we are not satisfied with a split,” but their actions say that those quotes have little truth to them. Particularly when your team comes out and takes the court playing defense as if all of the bandwagon, pundit talk about facing LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers already put them in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Heat know that it is not automatic, however when the team matches a franchise high for turnovers in a postseason quarter — with 11 for 14 points in the first — they start off jogging behind the eight-ball. When you compound that enough to total 21 turnovers and 38 in two games, it is inevitable that the losses will pile up no matter how well the offense is clicking.

Overcoming adversity is great, but consistently being the cause of your own is a confusing habit. Which is why fans heard Dwyane Wade at the podium say, “I feel like if we don’t keep committing 20-something turnovers, we will be fine.”

The problem is that Miami has been that high turnover team for most of the season. So they will have to live or die with them, because it is too late in the year to successfully kill old habits.