Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway were back. But this hardly was like old times.

This time both were playing as reserves, Hardaway no longer with the Heat and Mourning perhaps wishing he wasn't, either.

With Hardaway little more than a Dallas bystander and Mourning mostly a Heat benchwarmer, the Mavericks rolled to a 104-94 victory Friday night at AmericanAirlines Arena.

"We've got to develop a frame of mind that we're not going to suffer through this season," Mourning said after the Heat extended its losing streak to seven. "There's a lot of things we're just not doing out there."

For Hardaway, who scored five points in 17 minutes, the game meant leaving with the Heat's misery in his rearview mirror.

For Mourning, it meant having to endure more than an ongoing kidney illness. The loss continues the worst start in the franchise's 14 seasons since the fateful 0-17 open to its inaugural season.

"Until we play one of those monster games to get over the hump, it's not going to happen," coach Pat Riley said of a potential revival from this 2-9 start. "I don't think we played hard enough. I want to stop this somewhere."