The Miami Heat have lost four of five. The defense has slipped, and there are some statistics that suggest that pushing pace isn't working for a lot of other teams at the moment. Ethan Skolnick and Greg Sylvander examine what's happening, what is actually correlated and what the Heat can do.

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