Pat Riley
Pat Riley
Patrick James "Pat" Rileyis an American professional basketball executive, and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association. He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995 and head coach in two separate tenures. Widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams, four with the Los Angeles Lakers and one with the Heat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 March 1945
CityRome, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Eddie's always been the kind of guy coming off the bench with great energy, a real pure heart. It's hard to find guys like him.
Every time we see this team, and we'll see it again this week, the zone, while it doesn't bother us, it gets us out of sync. We did not play with much energy in the first four of five minutes of the game and then once we started to play with energy and got down the floor quicker things began to open up for us.
There's a fine line here, and that fine line is that we are operating in a corporate world and pro basketball is part of that world,
Our depth today stepped up. Different guys have to play different roles because three key players are out. We are starting to feel more comfortable.
People got a view of absolute greatness. It's absolutely beyond description. I haven't seen players do that in a long time.
We didn't like how we played up there, but we were ahead 83-82 with 2:15 to go (Sunday). All we needed was one or two stops and we couldn't get one.
We are going to be without Jason until the end of the season. We've decided to shut him down.
We wanted Damon. We felt this was the best place for him. What they wanted, we were unwilling to do. We traded for a starting point guard. How much are you willing to pay a backup?
Brent hit the big one to sort of put the nail in the coffin.
The team itself was hung over from last night, and very disappointed by it.
Somewhere along the way, for us to step up, we've got to beat good teams.
Teams are going to start getting nastier, more competitive and they want it, and they're going to get ready for playoffs. And when they happens you just have to walk away from it and you have to play at a higher level.
As soon as we begin to struggle offensively or get a little bit discouraged, two or three things happen to us and we stop playing defense.
As soon as we began to struggle offensively, we stopped playing defense. We have to stay the course defensively because we're going to have droughts.