Miami Heat: 3 takeaways from the first preseason game

This team is offensively multiple and capable

A huge issue for this Miami Heat team during last season was their inability at times to put the ball in the basket. A common theme over the past few seasons has also been that this team wants to play a more positionless and spaced brand of basketball. Both of those things came together on Tuesday night in a pretty decent fashion.

For starters, this team can shoot the ball. Although their three-point percentage wasn’t the greatest in this game, going 8-32 to a tune of 25 percent from deep, they appear to be a much better shooting collective than last season’s team. They just have to be because they have a ton of guys who can shoot it as individuals.

That takes us to the multipleness and positionless part of this equation. Because you have so many guys that can shoot the ball across a few different positions, Duncan Robinson as a guard/forward, Kelly Olynyk as a forward/center, Meyers Leonard as a forward/center, Tyler Herro, Jimmy Butler as a guard/forward, Justise Winslow as wherever he is lined up at the time, Dion Waiters when he is hot, and even Goran Dragic, that allows this team to play with such spacing and interchangeability.

For the most part, players should rarely be tied to certain spots or areas on the floor because they are capable of doing so much, be that handling, shooting, penetrating, assisting or whatever the situation may call for. That was the second major takeaway from Tuesday’s game.