Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat

Pacers top Heat 95-88, end 4-game winless streak

Luckily for the Pacers, neither was Miami's.

Bojan Bogdanovic scored 31 points, Darren Collison added 20 and the Pacers had a big third quarter to beat the struggling Heat 95-88 on Saturday night. Indiana ended a season-long four-game losing streak, which started in the game following the one where All-Star Victor Oladipo left with a season-ending knee injury.

"It was mental, I think," Bogdanovic said about the slide after losing Oladipo. "We needed this win to get it going. We have enough quality in this locker room without Victor to put up the numbers."

"That was pretty ugly in the fourth quarter for both teams," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "They were just able to hold on."

Myles Turner scored 14 points and Thaddeus Young added 11 for the Pacers. They swept the Heat 3-0 this season.

"It's all about adapting," Pacers coach Nate McMillan said about life without Oladipo. "It takes time and with different guys in and out of the lineup, it's not going to be a quick fix."

"You lose three in a row at home, it's tough," Wade said. "It's a lot of things combined. Got to figure it out, man."

Miami led 54-53 at the half, but Indiana quickly took control from there.

Indiana scored the first 10 points of the second half, needing only 1:59 to do so, turning a one-point deficit at intermission into a quick nine-point lead. The Pacers eventually led by 18 late in the third, before the Heat found a way to claw back into things.

But the Heat never got closer than five again, and fell to 2-13 this season when scoring less than 100 points.

"We've got to figure it out," Wade said.

TIP-INS

Pacers: Indiana took 17 of the first 25 shots, largely because Miami committed seven of the game's first eight turnovers. ... Tyreke Evans returned after missing the last three games with lower back soreness. He was 0 for 7 in 16 minutes. ... The Pacers led for 29 minutes on Saturday, after leading for 17 minutes in their last four games combined.

SLOW START

Neither team scored in the first 3 minutes of the fourth quarter. Justise Winslow took a pass from Wade for a layup with 8:54 left, the first points by either side in the final period. Indiana went nearly five minutes in the fourth before scoring.

HOME-HOME

UP NEXT

Pacers: At New Orleans on Monday night.

Heat: At Portland on Tuesday night.

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Regular Season Series

IND wins series 3-0