The Miami Heat experiment is going awry.
More and more the situation is becoming one that can't be fixed by the inexperienced apprentice, but rather the master himself. At this point, I'd consider Pat Riley as the professor of a chemistry lab and his student/mentor (Erik Spoelstra) conducting the championship experiment with three powerful chemicals (Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh).
We are 17 games into the Dream Team experiment, and Erik Spoelstra is in a deep mess. Sure, no one can blame him because he doesn't have the necessary materials (Udonis Haslem and Mike Miller) to finish the job, but that's no excuse for a 9-8 start.
Deep down, Pat Riley knows he wanted to coach this team. But he couldn't just pull another Van Gundy because of the great opportunity that presented itself. Riley would have preferred to have been the architect of the empire, not the worker trying to build it.
The Zen Master felt he knew what was going on and had this to say about the situation earlier in the week:
“The scenario that sits kind of behind the scene,” Jackson said Tuesday on a radio show after th ...
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Miami Heat: You’re Fired! Pat Riley Must Take Reins from Erik Spoelstra
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