Second is to think Riles would be any more fun. Riles is not an easy coach and many players complained over the years he wears you down. His Showtime teams he was invited in and the team had already won a championship without him. In NY he got a lot out of the players and hyped them up but fell short. Sometimes he was outcoached.

In Miami he got schooled every year by JVG except the when the "Fight Club" enacted and ewing was supsended. Miami folded the next series. JVG got his ass every time.

With Wade-Shaq it worked because it was half a season.

Riles don't want to coach. Only if the owner forces him will he. Kind of like when Dolan made Isiah coach. Kind like when you put your dogs nose into the crap he made and the dog fights back that he don't want his poo under his nose.

Setting up that slim ball to coach would be perfect. Maybe they respond and come back but we all would expect that. A bonus if we bounce them out of the playoffs.

Superfriends should not panic and should not be blaming the coach. Superfriends has some basic fundamental flaws.

Its redundancy and a lack of work ethic and intensity.

Superfriends like to party. Lebron and Wade need to tend to priorities like fatherhood and being professioal about living up to expectations they set for themselves. Lebron needs to grow up and get real. Real champions sacrifice to win. What are they sacrificing?

tkf wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:Lebron and Bosh didnt come to Miami to be coached by SPO. Riley convinced them to come to Miami and they want Riley as their coach.

and as long as they continue to give half assed efforts they will not be sucessful under riley... this is not about spoelstra, it is about 3 guys who were bad fits, who seemingly want to "chill" more than work..

Pat Riley = Phil Jackson.

Jackson doesnt ride Bryant and the other stars on the team. He does get the most out of them though.

I think some are underestimating the respect factor when coaching multiple stars. Spoelstra is a NOBODY. He is Mike Brown status. Pat Riley has the juice.

Lebron, Bosh, and Wade might not be the most ideal trio but they arent arch enemies either. They know the pecking order. When they annouce the team on Sun Sports they say Lebron James and the Heat.

GustavBahler wrote:http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamiheat/news/story?id=5862172

The Miami Heat's players are frustrated with Erik Spoelstra and some are questioning whether he is the right coach for their team, according to people close to the situation.

With the ballyhooed Heat losing four of their last five games and sporting a mediocre 9-8 record, the players are privately grumbling about Spoelstra on several fronts.

Sources say the players believe he is not letting them be themselves, that they are questioning his offensive strategies, and that they think he is panicking because he fears losing his job.

Stein on Spoelstra's situation

The pressure on Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has been simmering for a while. ESPN.com's Marc Stein has some perspective on where we've been, and where we might be headed. Blog

In contrast to the popular view that Spoelstra has been hesitant to jump on superstars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, sources say the Heat coach has shown no fear in criticizing them.

Exhibit A was a recent shootaround in which Spoelstra told James that he had to get more serious. The source said Spoelstra called James out in front of the entire team, telling him, "I can't tell when you're serious."

"He's jumping on them," one source said. "If anything, he's been too tough on them. Everybody knows LeBron is playful and likes to joke around, but Spoelstra told him in front of the whole team that he has to get more serious. The players couldn't believe it. They feel like Spoelstra's not letting them be themselves."

It is not known whether the players voiced their concerns about Spoelstra during their players-only meeting following Saturday's loss at Dallas. Nor is it apparent whether the bump between James and Spoelstra during a timeout in that game was accidental or a result of tension between the two.

Following the loss Saturday to Dallas, Wade said: "I never would put anything on the coach -- win, lose or draw -- because they can give us the game plan but they're not on the court playing. ... Now it's time to take ownership. This is our team, even though we respect our coaches for what they do."

Spoelstra was not immediately available for comment. The Heat has a shootaround Monday morning in preparation for a game against Washington later in the day.

According to the sources, the Heat players believe Spoelstra's offensive strategies have been too simplistic. They feel like he is running nothing but pick-and-rolls and telling the Heat's secondary players to find open spots on the floor for catch-and-shoot jumpers.

The sources said the players also think the constant speculation about Spoelstra's job security is getting to the third-year coach and that he has resorted to nitpicking over minor details because of it.

"He's not a motivator," one of the sources said. "Instead of coaching he's at the point where the players are starting to sense that he's fearing for his job."

"I don't worry about changes," Wade said on Saturday. "I can't control them. Only thing we can control is our effort and the way we play."

Mike & Mike in the Morning

ESPN NBA Insider Chris Broussard says players on the Heat are questioning whether Erik Spoelstra is the right coach for the team and Heat players think Spoelstra is panicking about his job security.

Several people close to the situation said Wade definitely does not want team president Pat Riley to come down to the sidelines. Sources also said that while recruiting players this past summer, Riley insisted that he would not coach the team.

"Riley kept saying 'Spoelstra's a good coach and he'll grow into a great coach,' " a source said. "He said he got his coaching break [with the Los Angeles Lakers] around the same age as Spoelstra got his."

It is widely believed that Riley does not want to coach this season. However, one source said that privately Riley has at times been critical of the Heat's game-planning.

While expectations around the league have started to lessen for the Heat because of their struggles, the sources said the players still have a championship-or-bust mentality for this season and that they are open to whatever changes are necessary to get there.

While the players think that may mean a coaching change, one member of the Heat organization said the team is suffering from a lack of leadership from the players, not the coach.

"They don't want to step on each other's toes," the person said. "There's no leader on the team. Somebody has to speak up and be the leader on the team. They can't be afraid to step on people's toes. They need a vocal leader who's going to make everybody accountable. I don't think it's on the coach. It's on the players."

Chris Broussard covers the NBA for ESPN The Magazine. Information from The Associated Press is included in this report.

according to Woj, this is a BS report coming strait from Maverick Carter

Spo is going no where....you really think Pat wants to take responsibility now. He might have been considering coming to the bench during the off-season but, after seeing His Prissyness in full bloom why the f would he.

If things turn around he looks good and if things don't Spo is the one who will look bad.

Like someone said earlier....Unlike Bron.....Riley cares about his legacy :)

DurzoBlint wrote:If Bosh and Udonis are your enforcers where did you think you were going?!!

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