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
I have seen a lot of good first quarters. I don't think I have ever seen one exactly like that. We didn't play well.
I really have some concerns going into the playoffs about it. I voiced it and he listened. So we'll see what happens.
(In the) third quarter they hit their first six or seven shots. From there, you could see their confidence rose.
I never saw that in him. He's very competitive ... but I'm a little surprised it went that far.
They made a real good run at us, but it's all about holding them off and making sure that they don't get it all back.
They have to understand when you go to somebody's building it's a big game.
They just kept raising the energy level. I hate to break that up.
They just kept hanging in there and then we finally opened it up in the second half.
The second half was like night and day from the first. We were so far out of sync at both ends of the court. To be quite frank, when we were down 21-5, we were blessed.
Once he gets into the open court, forget it.
I paid my bill and I went up to the room and got a telephone call from the waitress. They're all pretty cheap guys to stiff a waitress.
If you can get 81? Absolutely. You just need 10 more attempts.
If you recall, the last time we shut him down, he had a good run of games. I think that's what we need to do in light of not having him at all.
In some games, he's going to have to do it. When he plays against Detroit, possibly he's going to have to play (guard) Rip (Hamilton) in those big games.