Pat Riley
Pat Riley
Patrick James "Pat" Rileyis an American professional basketball executive, and a former coach and player in the National Basketball Association. He has been the team president of the Miami Heat since 1995 and head coach in two separate tenures. Widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time, Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams, four with the Los Angeles Lakers and one with the Heat...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 March 1945
CityRome, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The first three or four minutes, they fronted him and put a guy behind him. Then they started to play him straight up and straight down. Then they started to double-team him, and he not only scored, but he picked their defense apart.
Alonzo had a huge impact on the game defensively, rejecting eight and he probably changed seven or eight others.
Alonzo had a huge impact on the game defensively. I think he gave us the defensive lift when we needed it.
The guy was absolutely on a torrid pace. We knew that, but we didn't come out and jump on him and shut him down. As a matter of fact, we played him rather passively.
You've got to have some wins like that.
You've got to have all your weapons against that team.
You've got to give him credit. He just stepped up. You could see he wasn't really mobile.
I think the overall health is OK. Everybody has something wrong with them but it is not debilitating. We just have to keep our fingers crossed everyday that we can keep everybody on the court.
I think you're going to see that kind of series.
I was confident. I haven't had to use my legs since the eighth grade. I just want to go to states and place.
We pounded that ball down in the paint.
It is like a game-to-game thing. Back-to-backs have been a little bit difficult for him. We might look at it differently as to how we do that.
Late in the fourth quarter, everyone hit a critical shot. Tony Parker hit one, Bowen hit a couple and Brent Barry had the one which pretty much was the nail in the coffin.
I think they have great respect for New Jersey. They are a very effective team right now and they're developing a lot of confidence.