A: OK, so how do you really feel? First, let's filter some of this out of the way. Summer league has nothing to do with this, since almost none of those players are on this roster and, jeesh, it's summer league, where no one remembers the winning teams, just how long the games took. And the shifting of two assistant slots hardly changes the face of the coaching staff, with David Fizdale and Dan Craig, two of Spoelstra's most-trusted associates still in place. As for your opening argument, two of the games went to overtime, which inflates some of those totals. But that said, your opening statement is your most cogent statement. The defense has been awful so far this preseason. And you know who agrees most about that? Erik Spoelstra. He is every bit as ticked off as you are. That's fact. But when you bring new players together, and constantly are shifting your lineups, that tends to happen. I guarantee you the defense will be better than you have seen. Spoelstra and Riley will stand for nothing else. I also think, based on the limited wing scoring options, that this may have to become more of a defense-first team, winning in the ways Tom Thibodeau has won in Chicago amid Derrick Rose's injury absences. New team motto: Defend Free or Die! (Sorry New Hampshire.)