The same problem that has plagued the Miami Heat early in the season has come back to torture them in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. They cannot score if their basketball lives depended on it. And being minutes away from being down 3-1 to the Toronto Raptors would have put said lives in jeopardy.

But thanks to the man announcer Eric Reid nicknamed Superman — before Shaquille O’Neal entered the building — they get to live another day.

Interestingly enough, most of the morning was spent with debates about the supposed “uneasy tension” between Dwyane Wade and Goran Dragic that ESPN’s Brian Windhorst put in the air — all allegedly created by the point guard sitting on the bench so that coach Erik Spoelstra could go with “his guy.”

However, it was conveniently left out that Dragic had five fouls and was caught in a stretch where his coach was in the middle of rotating his offense and defensive substitutions to keep his point guard from being eliminated from the game with a sixth. Maybe he omitted it for the sake of telling a compelling story. But saying “I honestly think they are better in the long haul with [the ball in the hands of] Dragic” may have been the most confusing part of Windhorst’s argument — particularly after Wade’s 38-point performance was the only thing that kept Miami in the game.

If that was the talk after such a huge outing, 68 points in two games on 53 percent shooting from the field and 50 percent (4-for-8) shooting from the three should quiet it. If pundits are being honest, Wade’s efforts are the only thing that kept the Heat afloat after the series shifted to the American Airlines Arena.

A critic cannot downplay leading the franchise with the most 30-point games in Heat playoff history with 34 or the fact that Wade was in the top three in the league, during the regular season, in clutch situations.

That does not absolve him from his occasional horrible hero-ball moments and whining that costs the team on defense. But if anyone like Windhorst has any questions they can simply refer to Spoelstra (“I will go to my grave with Dwyane Wade making the decision at the end of the game”) or Chris Bosh telling Wade “If we’re gonna go out, I want to go out with you having the ball.” Or they could just look at 13 seasons’ worth of reasons to numb the doubt.