Pat Riley has lost his touch and the Miami Heat have jumped the shark

Team is tied to middling players who are being massively overpaid

(Citation does not equate to endorsement. I don't know what "jumped the shark" means. I endorse that sub-lede.)

…it will take an intervention for Miami and Riley to come to terms with their current situation. 

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1) Miami is paying $28 million for the bloated body of Lowry, who gave them 13.4 ppg last season. Yuck. 2) An ascending four-year deal for Robinson, who was so one-dimensional that head coach Eric Spoelstra benched him in the playoffs? 3) Is Herro really worth an average of $30 million a year on a career-scoring average of 16.8 ppg? Hell no.

1) Endorse

2) Endorse

3) Do NOT endorse

 

1) The Heat have been, and still are, the pinnacle of player development. Year after year, they are able to scrounge the bottom bin of the second round and undrafted pool to find players that become immediate contributors. Max Strus and Gabe Vincent are great examples of this. 2) But Herro and Robinson reveal Riley’s hand as someone who has become afraid to make drastic changes needed to improve the roster. 3) His arrogant belief in Butler as a franchise player and Adebayo as a superstar has kept this roster an over-achieving symbol of NBA purgatory.

1) Endorse

2) No. Do not endorse lumping Herro and Donut together. Do not agree that Riley is "afraid" of anything, specifically of drastic change

3) Endorse as to Jimmy. Am not aware he "believes" Bam is a "superstar."

4) Endorse "over-achieving"; "NBA purgatory": I am of the non-famed .531 taunt. Of "Middlesbrough". Those dogs won't hunt in the one-Finals-one-Eastern-finals near term, however.

 

As long as it stays intact, they will be too good for roster-changing Lottery picks and too low-ceilinged to make deep runs in the playoffs. 

 

Okay, I'm done. We made the ultimate deep run two seasons ago and the penultimate run last season. I endorse "has lost his touch" and over-paying.