Pat Riley Makes Nice With His Players
Pat Riley is really quite a genius. An evil genius, that is. The man is a master manipulator.
Here’s what he does: The Heat crap the bed for a few games, an exasperated Riley meets with the Miami press corps and he absolutely rips into his team, calling guys fat, threatening to bench superstars and generally sounding like he’s just about ready to leap off a tall building somewhere. Word quickly gets out, people make their jokes, and the players are sufficiently humiliated.
Eventually, they begin showing signs of life (as evidenced by the surprisingly close game in Boston, and the win in New Jersey), and Riles attacks the press claiming they misrepresented his statements all along.
This way, the players can’t really mutiny because he looks like he has their backs and is sticking up for them, when just a few days beforehand, he had just thrown them under the bus.
I suppose that’s why he gets paid the big bucks.
18 Responses to “Pat Riley Makes Nice With His Players”
Nov.20 at 3:37 pm
Ken says:
First
Nov.20 at 3:37 pm
Ken says:
Riley is as slick as his hair.
Nov.20 at 3:38 pm
white hot eboy says:
Mutoni, you Canadians are SO easy to bamboozle. Now if we could only figure out a way to steal your country’s free healthcare idea, we’d be able to right a lot of wrongs here in the good old U S of A.
Nov.20 at 3:45 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Now who’s the first draft pick word is born an’
not a Christian Laettner not Alonzo Mourning
that’s ok not being braggadocious
supercalifragelistic shaq ialidocious
peace I gotta go, I ain’t no joke
now I slam it, jam it and make sure it’s broke
Nov.20 at 3:49 pm
white hot eboy says:
“Baseline fadeaway like Bernard King”
Nov.20 at 4:01 pm
Cheryl says:
um…
Nov.20 at 4:12 pm
FlaxSeedOil Buress says:
Shoot, Pass, Slam! is now Food, Fat, Damn!
Nov.20 at 4:12 pm
SMK says:
Also he cleverly timed his “coaching” to coincide with Dwyane Wade getting healthy. Riles = always thinking
Nov.20 at 4:15 pm
white hot eboy says:
Dummies.
Nov.20 at 4:19 pm
Tommy Patron says:
Arsenio Hall Show.
Nov.20 at 4:23 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Shaq should go back to rapping.
Nov.20 at 4:30 pm
JohnnyRebel says:
I’m waiting for the Shaq and Aron carter follow up single!
Nov.20 at 4:34 pm
TADOne says:
“I am a true…what!…I am a true fu scnick!”
Nov.20 at 4:47 pm
Chief says:
i thought the heat with Davis and Smush would be gangbanging but i guess not.
Nov.20 at 8:51 pm
Sesa says:
interesting
Nov.20 at 8:52 pm
Sesa says:
C’mon Mutoni, why don’t you put a ittle bit of Kobe in your article?
Nov.21 at 12:20 pm
Rubens says:
good one russ
Nov.23 at 9:17 pm
real says:
Penny 4 life!