Could Pat Riley please fire his replacement Stan Van Gundy now. It's only one game into the season and he's proven to be incompetent. In the game, rookie Dwayne Wade took a first half charge injuring his hip. He played in pain and was ineffective in the second half. Van Gundy shouldn't have played Wade and the Marquette star agreed. "Honestly, I probably should have taken myself out because I was no factor to my team in the second half. I only hurt us, I thought. It hurt a lot, but I played on it so I should've played better," said Wade. To add insult to Wade's injury Van Gundy slapped him on his hip. Understatingly, Van Gunday said, "He didn't really appreciate that."
What was Pat Riley thinking? It's one thing to retire from coaching, but to put someone with no good track record as a head coach is puzzling. In his last head coaching job, Van Gundy turned a promising Wisconsin Badgers team into a mediocrity going 13-14 in 1994-95. Does Riley know the team will be so bad that it isn't worth having a real coach leading them?
"Heat Start off on the Wrong Foot"
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Stan may not be the right g... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Paul White | December 13, 2003 1:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Stan may not be the right guy but let's give him a chance.
1. Posted by Paul White | December 13, 2003 1:00 PM |
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Posted on December 13, 2003 13:00
2. Posted by Victor | April 19, 2004 7:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, now they've got their home court in the playoffs. Couldn't have been all that bad a decision after all, huh? Or do you think Riley underestimated his successor?
2. Posted by Victor | April 19, 2004 7:06 PM |
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Posted on April 19, 2004 19:06
3. Posted by Sean Hackbarth | April 20, 2004 5:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
He certainly proved me wrong.
3. Posted by Sean Hackbarth | April 20, 2004 5:07 PM |
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Posted on April 20, 2004 17:07