After five or six games, you get a sense of what an NBA team is attempting to do offensively.

The Heat's early numbers, as tracked by Synergy and recorded by the NBA's official sites, are about what you'd expect.

Miami does not have elite isolation players, not at this stage of their careers. Dwyane Wade was, but he's evolved as his athleticism has ebbed. Justise Winslow may be someday, but not yet.

So this shouldn't be surprising:

Miami is 29th in the league, ahead of only the Pistons, in points per isolation possession (0.57). The Spurs are first, at 1.27 points per possession, though they don't do it often. So it's probably a good thing that the Heat near the bottom as well (25th) in frequency of isolation possessions (4.6 percent). The Rockets have the highest frequency, at 12.1 percent, most of them from James Harden.

Since none of the Heat players are on the isolation leadership, I don't have access to a player-by-player breakdown. I did find this interesting, however: Wade is shooting considering better when he holds the ball longer, and dribbles it more. He's at 31.8 percent when he touches the ball for less than two seconds, and 54.5 percent when he touches it for more than six seconds.

That's contrary to the numbers for most players.

But it does give credence to the way he's trying to play, which is more methodically than some of the Heat's other players, especially Goran Dragic.

Dragic is at 63.3 percent when he touches the ball for less than two seconds, and is at 36.7 percent when he touches it for six or more.