MIAMI — Typically, the numbers game in the preseason is about the final roster, who stays, who goes, and how to make it all work under the salary cap, luxury tax and tax aprons.

But Monday night, shortly after his team dropped to 0-2 in the preseason with a loss to the Milwaukee Bucks at Kaseya Center , Heat coach Erik Spoelstra pointedly offered up another numbers game — and made it clear that he wouldn’t allow one set of numbers from the box score to game the system.

On the face of it, it was a highly productive outing for second-year Heat center Kel’el Ware, with 18 points and 13 points in 23:25.

To Spoelstra? Empty calories.

“There was a three-minute segment where it actually impacted the game,” Spoelstra said of Ware’s statistics . “The rest of it? It has to impact the game.

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