A: Not unless you're willing to open the playoffs on the road and perhaps been seeded for the Cavaliers in the second round. The Heat's margin of victory is not such that any opponent would be a walkover with 40 percent or more of the starting lineup out. Now, if you're considering a game where it might make sense, that could be on Saturday in Portland on the second night of a back-to-back. But that only would be if you've already banked victories over the Lakers and Kings. And even then, the Heat will have two days off after that for recovery. No, I think you play the schedule out unless you have the type of absence that is unavoidable, such as the illness that kept Goran Dragic out Monday.