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Miami - Let's just say that the Milwaukee Bucks were taken to school by the defending NBA champions.

But the question lingered: Did the Bucks learn a lesson?

The Bucks played some of their worst defensive basketball of the season - and that covers plenty of ground - in suffering a lopsided 110-80 loss to the Miami Heat on Tuesday night at American Airlines Arena.

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ON THE COURT
Player of the game: Guard Dwyane Wade got the Heat pointed in the right direction early, scoring 16 points in the first quarter on 7-for-10 shooting.

Play of the game: The Heat was having some fun in the second quarter as Antoine Walker offered up a lob to Wade for a dunk on a three-on-one fast-break that gave Miami a 48-25 lead with 5 minutes 35 seconds left.

Off the bench: With Shaquille O'Neal sidelined by a left-calf strain that he suffered Monday in practice, Alonzo Mourning started at center for the Heat.

Statistics sheet: Miami led at halftime, 66-37. The last time the Bucks were behind by that much at halftime was on March 27, 1994, when they trailed the Lakers by 31 points in Los Angeles.

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With each emphatic dunk, there was a release of built-up frustration.

With each three-point shot that sank through the nets, there was a stroke of confidence for a team that had been demoralized and depleted.

If winning cures all ills, as a weary Dwyane Wade suggested earlier this week, then the Heat emerged from Tuesday's 110-80 victory against the Milwaukee Bucks feeling as good as it ever has in this painful season.

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MIAMI · "Shaq is back!" was Tuesday's marketing promotion.

He wasn't. But the Heat was.

After a miserable three-game trip that saw it blow a 20-point lead in Indiana, be victimized by 52 points from Jamal Crawford in New York and fall to 0-3 this season against Chicago, the Heat made do with a makeshift roster in a 110-80 victory over the Bucks.

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MIAMI, Jan. 30 (AP) -- Having done enough damage in the first three quarters, Dwyane Wade got to sit out the fourth against the Milwaukee Bucks.

Wade scored 28 points on 12-for-17 shooting from the field, and watched the final period from the bench as the Miami Heat beat the Bucks 110-80 on Tuesday night to snap a three-game losing streak.

"I came in tonight wanting to get my teammates involved in the game,'' Wade said. "Sometimes when I do that, it sets me up, too. I was getting a lot of open looks.''

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But the question lingered: Did the Bucks learn a lesson?

Based on the Orlando game... I would say hell no!