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Continuity, not conditioning, Kyle Lowry said Wednesday is what derailed his initial season with the Miami Heat.

When it comes to the Miami Heat’s lineup and rotation for the coming season, this largely has been a month that has focused on four play, as in who will be the team’s starting power forward.

MIAMI — The thought was simple and straightforward.

PHILADELPHIA — Sometimes Mike Marquis would laugh to himself as he watched TV in the morning, as he listened to the sports-talkers on the take-fests bat around Jimmy Butler as their topic du jour. There was always an element of doubt and mystery to their discussions about Butler. Is he…

“Hopefully I don’t get fined. I’m not happy about it.”

There’s a predictable movement going on in the days after the Heat season. It’s the “Kyle Lowry can’t help them” movement, and it’s grown louder.

MIAMI — Two days after the NBA Replay Center overturned his third-quarter 3-pointer during critical sequence of Sunday night’s Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics, Miami Heat guard Max Strus said Tuesday he still is not convinced about the ruling.

Here’s how it goes with great players. Everything stops when they shoot for the season. Everyone meets their greatest hopes and worst fears with the ball in the air.

Kyle Lowry and the Heat attributed his regular-season scoring decline (from 17.2 ppg in his final season with Toronto to 13.4 in his first with the Heat) to his determination to create shots for teammates and make all of them feel engaged and involved.