Chris Cote

When is there smoke blowing up?

Anything?

I think it feels good.

Sunshine, at least I understand.

No.

You have talked for many years and you have accepted that his standard is the highest standard.

It's the one that he taught everyone around here.

And when he doesn't meet it or reach it or doesn't come close and they're not as relevant as you like, you get very frustrated with him.

It's not like your standard is any higher than his.

than his standard.

What Samson is saying, though, as an executive who knows how hard these things are to do, is for 30 years, Miami has had the third best winning percentage in the entire league.

That's really hard to do over 30 years when you've got a situation that your players are always changing.

Like, it's the Spurs, it's the Lakers have won a little bit more, and that's it.

It's 30 years.

The entire time he's been in charge, they've won a great deal more than they've lost.

They've got the...

Third best winning percentage in the league.

And so Sampson is saying to you, that's hard to do.

Respect it.

Be grateful for it.