Jimmy Butler Was Right, It's Time For The Heat To Move On From Pat Riley
What the Miami Heat did last night was the most pathetic thing I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life as a Heat fan. Before the game even started, I said I wanted them to lose. I told Tate, "I want you guys to beat us so badly that it forces every Heat fan to feel embarrassed, embarrassed enough to protest outside the Kaseya Center, demanding either Pat Riley step down or Micky Arison sell the team."
But I didn’t expect that kind of beatdown. That was the kind of loss that makes you want to run away from home and plot revenge on your own father. What happened last night wasn’t just a loss, it was first-degree murder. And there’s one person I’m putting on the stand: the “guy with the silver hair.”
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Jimmy Butler was right. Now, he never explicitly said Pat Riley was the reason he’s not playing, but wait… actually, yes he did. Pat Riley is the reason our stars have either left or chosen not to come here. I said it before last night’s game and I’ll say it again: Pat is more concerned with sending messages and preserving this so-called “culture” than he is with actually winning games.
Well guess what, Pat? That "culture" just gave us a 37-45 season and zero playoff wins. We got beat so badly that Coach Spo called it irrational to even think we had a chance in this series. That’s how ugly it was.
And beyond the people in charge, the effort from the players was flat-out disgraceful. There was no culture. No fight. No dogs. No Dade County goons. Just a bunch of mentally checked-out, defeated individuals already thinking about their flights to Cancun. I don’t care about individual stats. Tyler Herro having a -44 plus/minus means nothing to me. What matters is that not a single player showed even an ounce of fight in a win-or-go-home game.
I’ve never seen a Miami Heat team quit like they did last night. It was absolutely pathetic.
Change needs to be made.