Coming into Wednesday's game winning 21 of 22 games overall and 13 consecutive road games, Miami walked through Staples Center with an air of indestructibility.

But a first quarter in which they were outscored 44-26 ended up being too big of a deficit for even the Heat to chip away at on this given night against a young, motivated and athletic Clippers team.

Los Angeles won by a final of 111-105 despite 31 points from Dwyane Wade, 27 from LeBron James and 26 from Chris Bosh.

After the game, I asked Wade if they have reached a point where they feel absolutely shocked when they lose a game.

Wade laughed initially.

"Shocked? Not shocked, but we are a very confident team," said Wade. "We really believe in our ability. Until the end, we still focused on coming back to win the ballgame.

"They shot the ball unbelievable for the whole game. They shot 50% for the whole game, that doesn't happen to us that much.

"We're not shocked. We've won 21 out of 22, not 22 out of 23. We move onto a tough Denver team (Thursday)."