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January 5, 2007Pat Riley is taking an indefinite leave of absence from coaching the Miami Heat to attend to hip and knee problems.
Notice a pattern here?
Riles stepped away from the bench when the Heat was an underachieving team of mismatched parts. Stan Van Gundy takes over and does a great job of pulling the team together and making the playoffs. Then Riley (also the team President) trades for Shaq and things look much brighter with a hungry, motivated, in-shape Diesel on the team. A couple of months into the season, Van Gundy abruptly 'resigns' for 'personal reasons', and (surprise!) Riley takes over. The Heat end up going all the way, Riley gets another ring, and the basketball world gushes over what a genius he is and how he hasn't lost his touch.
Now Shaq is hurt, Wade is out with a wrist injury, and the team is 2 spots out of the playoffs in a horrendously bad Eastern Conference. So it comes as no surprise that he's stepping down as coach 'indefinitely' — in other words, 'until we can start winning again'.
Remember, this is the same guy who described coaching in the NBA as "either winning or misery". I guess he figured out its better to let other people deal with the misery part.
My prediction: Riley's health will improve dramatically once Shaq and D-Wade are back in the lineup. I wonder what the over-under in Vegas is on this?
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and he does it without mussing up his hair. i think they based the Ben Stiller character on Riles.
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Kinda funny how a basketball coach plays really good “dodgeball” eh?
Posted by Adam Mordo at January 5, 2007, 1:38 pm