<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Pat Riley won't look at the statistics. His team's offensive numbers are just too horrifying. ''I haven't looked at them,'' Riley said. ``I'm embarrassed by it.'' That means he has seen them at some point. And they're not pretty. The Heat entered Tuesday's game against the Hornets still at the bottom of the league in scoring, the only team in the league to average fewer than 90 points a game. Miami is last in the league in point differential, sitting at minus-9.22, and is only ahead of Memphis in shooting percentage. Does the coach consider it a problematic trend or still an early-season abnormality? ''I think the years we won 36 and 25 [games] we might have been in a deficit in terms of differential,'' Riley said. ``Right now I think we are what we are when we're in close games. We've had four aberrational games that have taken it all out of whack. ``You get beat by 42, you get beat by 30, you get beat by 20 and you get beat by 20 again, that's 110 (actually 112) in nine games.'' Actually, only three of the Heat's losses have been by blowouts, but those losses to the Bulls, Rockets and Knicks have come by an average of 29.3 points, and all of them came at home. Riley said he has seen some similarities in those games, but those trends have been consistent every game this season. ''Obviously we don't have a post-up presence, and our points in the paint have gone down, our free-throw attempts have gone down, our medium-range and long-range shooting are not very good,'' he said. ``The trend is we're not making a lot of shots, so the emphasis is going back to defending, defending, defending to make sure that we're not always having to take the ball out of bounds and we do have some opportunities to break.''</div> Source
