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
This is a multibillion-dollar business.... Our players have to recognize that they are part of this corporate world and there's a decorum that has to be upheld while they are at work.
People got a view of absolute greatness. It's absolutely beyond description. I haven't seen players do that in a long time.
Offense I don't think is going to be a problem for us. It's sustained defensive intensity.
A game that could have been very, very ugly for us turned out to be a win, and that's all that counts.
After a real slow start, we played very well offensively. When your best player goes 4-for-14 and you still win, then you've got to feel good about it.
Strange things happen when you think things are at their worst. I thought Gary (Payton) did a great job of running the offense and making some big plays in the fourth quarter. James Posey had timely shots and two big offensive tip-outs. We had other players step up when we had to.
Strange things happen when you think they're at their really worst. We needed the win, that's all there is to it.
Any time he gets in foul trouble and sits down, that sets him back and sets us back. You have to try to keep him on the floor for normal minutes. But when he gets that third and fourth foul, we get out of rhythm.
That team's never going to stop coming. We found that out in Game 1; we found that out again tonight.
Definitely we'll fight that one. If it was, they better give a flagrant foul to whoever hit him in the end (Jermaine O'Neal). It was the same kind of foul. It's getting ridiculous.
Anybody who's got the kind of energy to try to hoist up (nearly) 70 shots is going to score a lot of points. It's remarkable, the execution and the efficiency, but we've got a lot of guys in this league, if they took 70 shots, they'd score a lot of points.
Antoine is somebody that I definitely haven't handled well from an offensive standpoint. 'Catch as catch can' isn't good enough. You have to go to him more.
Antoine is capable of having an outrageous night. I was going to sub for him but I just wanted to get him one more possession. We allowed Antoine to bring it up a couple of times. He hit a three and I kept him in the game.
Somewhere along the way, for us to step up, we've got to beat good teams.