The Miami Heat rank fifth in offense to start the season, a surprising start considering they're adapting to life without LeBron James.

The Heat have adapted their pace-and-space system to play without LeBron by using smallish lineups.

Miami has assisted on 64.5 percent of its hoops, no. 2 in the league, and up from 58.8 percent last season, per NBA.com. 

“The principles are the same,” Erik Spoelstra says. “How we do it is different.”

The Heat also are producing nearly the same number of corner 3s as they did with LeBron.