Eddie Jones' career-high 37 points in Tuesday's 100-94 overtime win at Denver were the most by a Heat player since Alonzo Mourning had 43 on Feb. 23, 2000 against New Jersey.

Heat coach Pat Riley was surprised Denver didn't double-team Jones on isolations late in the game.

``He got by all three times,'' Riley said. ``He had a great month. He knows and everybody knows he's the guy that's going to get it done for us. It wasn't that way last year.''

Jones also had four blocks and four steals:

``I got my legs under me in the fourth quarter and felt it was time to make plays. I told my teammates, `Give me the ball.' '' I was going to make something happen going to the basket.''

After Jones went scoreless in the third quarter, he scored 13 in the combined fourth quarter and overtime.

``We kind of thought he was done,'' Nuggets guard Nick Van Exel said. ``We don't have anything, let alone a killer instinct.''

 Mourning, who missed the past two games with the flu, expects to play Friday against San Antonio. Although ESPN's Tim Legler and TNT's Peter Vecsey criticized Mourning's selection to the All-Star team, Mourning said, ``I don't think I got any sympathy votes. I got votes because of the work I put in. . . . I can't think of any other center in the East that's having the same kind of impact I'm having on my team.''

 Brian Grant banged his knee and turned his ankle against Denver but played through it. . . . Rod Strickland sat late in the Denver game because he was feeling ill. . . . The Heat went 17 for 17 on free throws against the Nuggets, only the fifth time ever Miami hasn't missed a free throw. Of those five games, the Heat's 17 attempts were its second-most, behind only a 30-for-30 game against Boston in 1993.