HEAT Head Coach Pat Riley

On the 4th quarter:
“We just went stone-cold again in the fourth quarter. I thought we played extremely well. Not driving the ball really hurt us in the fourth. We just kept taking jumper after jumper. It was more or less, hope to win than going after it. We just couldn’t make enough shots. Same old story.”

On Heat trying to get to 15 wins and match franchise low for wins in a season:
“I don’t think about that. I mean, that’s a media deal. We’re trying to win games. We’re playing hard, playing well. Don’t have enough, right now.”

HEAT Guard Daequan Cook

On his lack of minutes after the first quarter:
“Foul trouble. It’s tough, but you’ve got to fight through it and you have to find a way. It kind of set me back and it kind of slowed down my game.”

On the losing streak:
“We are going to win one day. We are going to win one of them. To fall short again, (tonight) it hurts. As long as guys keep coming in and keep believing, that’s the main thing. I believe. I know Udonis (Haslem) believes. As long as the leaders believe and keep pushing it down to the other guys, we’ll get out from it one day.”

On the Heat in the 4th quarter:
“We had a lot of opportunities. We just missed the shots. We made a couple of turnovers, but we went down and made some defensive stops and we went down on offense and at the end of the game, we made more turnovers and forced some shots.”

On the Heat:
“We have a lot of games like this. We’ve played 30-plus, maybe 40-plus games, where we we’ve been close like this. There’s a lot of plusses right now, we just have to keep building on this and keep working from here on out.”

HEAT Forward Ricky Davis

On the 4th quarter:
“They just turned it up a little bit and they got to the free throw line a lot. That kind of hurt us right there, getting to the free throw line, giving them easy baskets.”

On the Heat settling for jump shots in the 4th quarter:
“Yeah, that too. We settled a little bit, shooting from the outside. They were good shots, but you need to get to the basket a little bit and get some easy baskets.”

Cavaliers Head Coach Mike Brown

On the game:
“I thought we did a nice job on the boards. Both teams obviously missed a lot of shots. For us to out rebound them by 20 with both teams shooting in the 30’s (percentage), we were active on the glass and limiting them to four offensive rebounds was huge. We found a way to win down the stretch. We got enough stops and enough baskets down the stretch in order to find a way. I thought Anderson was big, giving us a lift off the bench. Sasha was big, giving us a lift off the bench, especially defensively. I thought he did a nice job on that end of the floor. At the end of the day, we need a win so it was a good win for us.”

On Wade:
“It’s one of those things that if we had the lead and we were kind of scoring and you got a five or six point lead then we may keep doing what we doing especially when they got Chris Quinn on the floor, Jason Williams on the floor. You start hitting, you start doubling, now maybe you giving up a three and that really gets the momentum so you just keep your fingers crossed, and you keep saying your prayers and you hope that he misses. But if it is in a situation when the game gets a little tighter or they’re up for me that when you start thinking about hitting or double teaming them.”

Cavaliers Forward LeBron James

On closing the game well:
“We got enough stops down the stretch. We made free throws. That was key. We made free throws down the stretch. We gradually just nailed the coffin tonight. Sometimes [with] a win like that, you know that you don’t have to play perfect to win.”

On getting the win:
“We got better tonight. I think that defensively we were really good. Offensively, we couldn’t make shots. But I can live with us if we played defense like we did tonight. We contested and we helped each other on the defensive end.”

On playing an injury-riddled Miami team:
“It’s tough. The crowd expects you to just come in here and blow them out. We expect to come out and play well but offensively we didn’t. But we didn’t let that deter us. We continued to just grind and grind, and we got the win.”

On the back:
“I feel good. I got rest yesterday and didn’t play my 40-plus minutes tonight. I’m going to see how it reacts. I haven’t had a back-to-back since the back [problems started].”

On playing Washington in the first round of the playoffs:
“That’s so fun. I’m excited… If we had to play somebody, I’m glad it’s Washington.”

On Daniel Gibson shooting well:
“We need Daniel’s outside touch. He brings us a leader at point guard. We’re really dynamic when he’s shooting the ball [well] from the outside. When Boobie plays well, we’re a much better team and he knows that. It was exciting to see him play well again.”

Cavaliers Guard Daniel Gibson

On making big shots:
“I really want to get back to that. I feel like before I was injured, those are things that I did a lot of. Those three-pointers when teams make runs…just big shots. I relish those opportunities and I just really want to get back in the moment when I’m doing that again.”

On getting basketball advice from his father:
“From day one when I was in high school to college to now…Whenever he feels like he needs to tell me something, he will bring it to me. Every time I do it, it just always works.”

On fighting hard for a victory against Miami:
“Oh yeah, we talk about it a lot. Those guys regardless of their record are going to play hard. Even the guys they have called up are guys playing for jobs and opportunities. Ricky (Davis) is still playing and is an NBA vet…Jason Williams…They have a lot of guys that can play the game. They are going to come out, they haven’t packed it in. They are going to continue to play and compete. We have to be ready for the challenge. We took a couple blows, but in the end we came out on top.”

On the game tomorrow versus Philadelphia and its playoff implications:
“That would be big for us to get a win on the road. That’s been a thing of late that we want to get better at, going on the road and winning a game. We are looking at it as an opportunity to get better.”