Pat Riley

But that's where I think a lot of people miss what coaches do and what they have to do prior to games and post-games.

There are those moments that are definitely seminal moments that you'll take with you for the rest of your life.

You'll never forget that time.

But you also...

you know, talk about the adversity of the moment, you know, and I've talked about this all the time, and it's somebody else's writing that in my readings when I was younger as a coach, that in every adversity, we find and we must find the seed of equivalent benefit.

There has to be an equivalent benefit to this failure, to whatever it is, and out of that seed,

You replant it, you replant it, you replant it, and then it might grow 100 feet in a year or whatever it is.

And so, you know, failure is just as much a part of the NBA as winning is.

And probably it's more...

growth oriented than just winning games all the time i mean that's how you grow you you built your business on on failure too and you built your business on greatness and i think everybody who gets to where we have gotten to we all have to appreciate those moments when it was dark and that it was low and that and that you never felt you know good about anything so i have born been born out of that

even in the winning in la there were moments that were darker than than miami because the expectation was even higher and so here there was there was an expectation when i showed up and i felt like i i failed you know those first six years and then we had to do a two-year rebuild and then we got karan butler and then we got duane wade and we got lamar odom and we got

And Udonis Haslam walked through that door one day, and we got Udonis Haslam.

And we had Eddie Jones and Brian Grant.

And we put together now the next iteration of what the Heat was going to look like.

And then we got Shaquille.

He got here.

And we had to lose some players we loved.

And then we won our championship.

And you have no idea the relief.

Oh, man.