After holding onto the top spot in the Eastern Conference for a lengthy stretch, the Miami Heat fell into one of their worst four-game stretches of the season last week. The skid reached its boiling point as Jimmy Butler and Erik Spoelstra were seen getting heated on the Heat sidelines during their ugly loss to the Golden State Warriors.

Heat icon Dwyane Wade doesn't seem the least bit bothered, though. The three-time NBA champion saw the scene as business as usual for a team with title aspirations as the Heat are this season. Wade revealed that he actually texted head coach Erik Spoelstra right after the game, facetiously stating that it looks like the team is going through the necessarily internal strife as the postseason looms.

“I texted Spo right after and said, ‘Looks like you guys are gearing up for the playoffs'. Listen, this right here for me. You could play that same video of me and Spo. Spo would come back at me like that.

Dwyane Wade and Erik Spoelstra also had their fair share of disagreements as well. During their four-year NBA Finals run during the early 2010s, the Heat star and coach had a few flare-ups, but it was never anything that lingered for much longer. To Wade, the bursts of emotion may have helped fuel their play later on, which he hoped would be the case as the Heat roll into the playoffs as one of the top seeds in the East.

“2012, Spo and I had the same blow-up.We ended up winning the next three games and I think we won the championship that year. So sometimes family have fights, they have disagreements, they have arguments in front of the world. … I looked at it like, ‘Oh, this is a Tuesday for the Miami Heat.'”

Considering Erik Spoelstra wasn't the most accomplished coach yet during Wade's early days, his willingness to go at one of the league's best players likely earned him more respect down the line. Coach Spo's fits of emotion are always for the benefit of the team and the innate desire to see his players perform at the level he knows he's capable of.

While Jimmy Butler, Udonis Haslem, and coach Spo all looked ready to come for each other's throats, the team was able to move past it and chalk it up to just how passionate they all are for winning it all.

Every team this season, maybe save for the Phoenix Suns, have gone through rough patches that aren't indicative of the team's overall ceiling. The Heat were no exception to this.

Their body of work this season speaks for itself. Even after the four-game dry spell, Miami have now regained the top spot in the East and are all but guaranteed home-court advantage in the first and likely the second-round of the postseason. If the Heat can peak at the right time and make a run at the title, moments like their sideline shouting match will be seen as necessary steps to get the team on the right track.