Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is giving LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh the freedom to improvise offensively in a way they weren’t able to before.

"We're just going to get out there and flow into it; we're not going to make any calls," Bosh said. "I think last year we were too bent on making calls, trying to run a specific play every time, when the set can really just be free-flowing."

Wade said the timing was right, with an abbreviated training camp in advance of a lockout-compressed schedule that allows for minimal practice time.

"Let's just play basketball,” Wade said. “Let's use our talents. Let's use our IQs of the game just to play. So I think Spo has done an unbelievable job so far, in this training camp, of getting guys ready, but making them comfortable, as well."

James said it makes sense to play at pace against defenses so focused on taking away the Heat's trademark pick-and-roll sets.

"It's been great," he said. "It suits our personnel. It's been good for us offensively just to read and react. No matter if it's a make or a miss, we want to get the ball up the floor fast. That's something we didn't do well last year."