Dan Le Batard
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That's all just length on the perimeter defending.
You've got just athletes defending in Orlando and Toronto, and you can win a game shooting 32% that way.
Yeah, but I told you about this.
Charlotte had trouble getting the ball over half court on him.
He's a problem defending the perimeter.
But let's talk locally about what's happening in basketball here because
I don't know that I've ever reacted to a Pat Riley press conference that way.
I was just wincing.
I was wincing at the state of the franchise, and I was wincing at some of the things said.
Now, I've been saying around here that that's a consortium of five that run the Miami Heat, that it's not just him.
But him saying himself yesterday, I'm not final say.
It's never been me as final say.
It's just conveniently placed to be saying that when he's never said it and the organization at large has benefited greatly from concealing that, from always making it about the mythology of Riley.
But I would say now less than ever.
does he have what you would consider final say it's always been five people talking but when he gets out there and does his annual press conference and says he's not retiring after a mean spent yesterday wondering whether that would be a retirement press conference for pat riley at 81 years old when he gets into a back and forth with barry jackson on saying i'm not trading bam there's
There's no circumstance under which I am trading.
Bam.
Zaz, how did you experience that press conference yesterday before we get to some of the sound from it?
When you say same old, though, I would go old same.
Like what's happening here with Pat Riley at 81 years old?