This will be the third year in whatever it is Pat Riley is doing in Miami. The third year with the same roster going into the season. Miami is on the apron of the NBA salary cap with an immovable, interchangeable, positionless roster of Johnson & Johnson, Flotsam & Jetsam who won 50% of their games in Year One and 53.7% in Year Two. If Miami goes through Year Three largely with this same roster and "improves" as "much" as they did from Year One to Year Two, they would net...47 wins. Forty-seven wins would have positioned Miami sixth in the Eastern Conference last season. Miami finished last season sixth. They were fifteen games out of first place.
There is no way out. Miami is stuck in quicksand. Pat Riley will be 74 years-old by the time 2018/19 ends and age is showing on him. There was no plan here. This is a roster put together with no more strategic method than scotch tape and chewing gum. At the end of this desultory season Riley should jet off into the sunset to Malibu. Three years of planless, positionless, hopeless mediocrity are enough.
There is no way out. Miami is stuck in quicksand. Pat Riley will be 74 years-old by the time 2018/19 ends and age is showing on him. There was no plan here. This is a roster put together with no more strategic method than scotch tape and chewing gum. At the end of this desultory season Riley should jet off into the sunset to Malibu. Three years of planless, positionless, hopeless mediocrity are enough.
