Heat's Wade not looking back to Game 2

DALLAS -- A chance for another championship ahead of him, Dwyane Wade refused to look back.

No, he said, the answer as quick and forceful as his first step to the basket. He doesn't consider that the Miami Heat should have a 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals.

The series is 2-1, close on the scoreboard even though it doesn't feel that way on the floor. The Heat have repeatedly built double-digit cushions against the Dallas Mavericks, and a late collapse in Game 2 is all that's keeping them from the lead that's never been blown in an NBA series.

"You can't think about stuff like that. Everything in life happens for a reason," Wade said Monday before practicing. "If we come in and we win that game, if we run away with that game, I don't know if our sense of urgency is the same in Game 3. Who knows? So our sense of urgency was that way for a reason. We lost the game we know we shouldn't. We are up 2-1."

The Heat insists the game isn't as easy as Wade and LeBron James are making it look, and the Mavericks refuse to admit they might just be facing a superior foe.

"We're just too stubborn," point guard Jason Kidd said.