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If you have to play a well-rounded team like the Heat, always best to do so when they’re down Jimmy Butler…right? Not so for the Celtics tonight. Unable to get in an overall offensive groove, a combination of eagle-eyed Heat shooting, arbitrarily intense officiating (39 free throws to Boston’s 27) and the Cs own less-than-sterling defense put them in a hole they couldn’t escape.