Those ridiculously, exquisitely mediocre numbers are the Miami "Heat's" record the last three full seasons. Coming up in Year Four: more of the same. "I don't think there is any team in the NBA with as bleak an outlook as the "Heat," said hoop savant Zach Lowe in mid-season.
The Miami Herald's Barry Barry Jackson and Anthony Chiang, are doing a good job of calling a Riley a spade without being insulting. It all comes back to Riles. Stevie Wonder could see that and Barry and Anthony have good eyesight. Barry listed ten things the "Heat" need to do to improve, almost all of them Riley related. For some reason Barry gave Eric Spoelstra a pass. He wrote about Spo's distaste for Hassan Whiteside and put this in bold as a sub-lede:
You can’t have the league’s leading rebounder per 36 minutes –and your highest paid player - averaging just 17.3 minutes over his final 19 games.
Spoelstra can't do that, Barry, not a generic "You," "One" cannot do that, no Spoelstra can't do that. CALL IT BARRY FOR GODSSAKE, CALL SPO A SPADE.
He wrote about the ever changing lineups, how that demoralized and confused the players, led to inconsistency--Duh!--and inconsistent effort. Whose lineups were they, Barry? Anthony wrote that it was either 27 or 29 different lineups that Spoelstra used this season.
The same team is going to be back in 2019-20. The same team...That makes me a little nauseous. The same coach. If Spoelstra starts the 2019-20 season back to his tinkering ways--he just cannot resist, he is obsessive compulsive about his tinkering, I make it odds-on that he does--I am either going to tune out and drop out or turn homicidal, I hope the former.
The Miami Herald's Barry Barry Jackson and Anthony Chiang, are doing a good job of calling a Riley a spade without being insulting. It all comes back to Riles. Stevie Wonder could see that and Barry and Anthony have good eyesight. Barry listed ten things the "Heat" need to do to improve, almost all of them Riley related. For some reason Barry gave Eric Spoelstra a pass. He wrote about Spo's distaste for Hassan Whiteside and put this in bold as a sub-lede:
You can’t have the league’s leading rebounder per 36 minutes –and your highest paid player - averaging just 17.3 minutes over his final 19 games.
Spoelstra can't do that, Barry, not a generic "You," "One" cannot do that, no Spoelstra can't do that. CALL IT BARRY FOR GODSSAKE, CALL SPO A SPADE.
He wrote about the ever changing lineups, how that demoralized and confused the players, led to inconsistency--Duh!--and inconsistent effort. Whose lineups were they, Barry? Anthony wrote that it was either 27 or 29 different lineups that Spoelstra used this season.
The same team is going to be back in 2019-20. The same team...That makes me a little nauseous. The same coach. If Spoelstra starts the 2019-20 season back to his tinkering ways--he just cannot resist, he is obsessive compulsive about his tinkering, I make it odds-on that he does--I am either going to tune out and drop out or turn homicidal, I hope the former.
