Is it time for Pat Riley to go? Is he no longer a selling point to join the team? Stephen A. Smith pitches in saying, "Change has to start with Pat Riley."
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00:00hard to say i don't know game ops even had a bad season when he was dribbling the ball up here
00:09you thought game ops had a bad season marco they had a failed pet boss yeah that's that's a that's
00:15not on them that's on heime uh you know they've had a failed bad couple of seasons remember the
00:20conor mcgregor thing uh that was a bad idea but that's you know look i understand you want to
00:26make a lot of money connor has a lot of bucks behind him terrible idea to do that uh in the
00:32middle of that i will say though yesterday is when game ops makes its money because they got to keep
00:38people happy and they send a lot of bribery t-shirts a lot of bribe pizzas oh they were shooting a whole
00:45bunch of stuff out of cannons golden oldies go twice twice for golden oldies we tired
00:52maybe that was just a starting lineup and you're confusing them are you sure it wasn't suppose like
01:00how old are you four perfect perfect get him out there somebody said i i missed the comment but
01:06somebody says tell somebody tell spo that evan mobley's 23. i know that's crazy right he looks
01:12older than 23. yeah well that's just because he looks like arms and legs and so and and the crazy
01:18thing is is that he went through his lumps last year yeah he did right and jared allen famously did
01:24a couple years ago then too right where everybody said he's young he's got to go through his why is
01:31kalel playing you know dude but here's the thing when you've had success for a long period of time
01:40that gets lost because you just think you can keep putting guys in there and just make it work and
01:47your young guys you can teach these young guys this lesson right whereas every other team is
01:53thinking let's get our young guys in so we can all grow together uh steven a smith has gone on first
01:59take today and he says it's time for pat riley to move on as president of the miami heat he says
02:05quote you have to get people who want to come to miami and pat riley's not that guy anymore
02:09really i think everyone's seeing it man i know it's hard but i think it's it's not it's not here
02:18i think people look at the team right and what big time players do now is they try to figure out how
02:32they're gonna fit on that team and so what i would say is if you trade for a big name star
02:43and have to give up assets when that star gets here how much better are you except for that star
02:50and so i think a lot of these players are looking at that situation and figuring it's not a situation
02:57where you say oh let's see i want to play with this guy i want to play with this guy i want to play
03:01you know what i mean like the thing was golden state has a whole different situation they do but
03:06let's take it back to when jimmy got here right like when jimmy got here uh it's not like there
03:12was this this vast destination of big players jimmy is a different because it's all about the money
03:18and that's okay i'm talking about the first signing though i'm talking about when jimmy came here from
03:22philly okay yes they did give him his money which you know philly was a little bit squirrely about
03:27giving him and they had some riff with the coach right but um you know they didn't they weren't
03:34loaded up here i mean the starting lineup that year had two undrafted guys in bam out of bio at 21 years
03:39old right now but again jimmy's a different situation because what talks first with jimmy
03:46the money the money yeah the money did but but also the but also he didn't like the situation in
03:53philadelphia as well yeah they know i didn't remember they wouldn't they didn't want to pay
03:58him it's it's not just that they want to pay him though like they had the whole riff with the coach
04:02the ben simmons thing like of of there was there was a lot of like locker room tension as far as
04:07ben simmons being a mope and uh and that and that being a weird fit so there was that too like it
04:13wasn't it wasn't just a money thing because people were going to pay jimmy his money regardless
04:16right you know so like when you're talking about getting people that i think the thing with the
04:19question here with the heat is you're this far off like you just got stomped like that
04:27are you really like is this a viable destination anymore like this is that that's the thing that
04:33has that the heat have to look themselves in the mirror and ask like it has of course prestige of
04:38its past and it has prestige of what it's done that's but that's one of the hardest things to do
04:43one of the hardest things to do is move on from what won in yesteryear and do what wins now
04:52um it's hard for everybody it's hard for a lot of people because they've had so much success
04:58and sports just had so much so much success that one of the guys who i think has been really good at it
05:08it has been pop right like he has a way of doing things but as each era has gone by he's been able
05:19to yeah but i mean like they kind of like pop had that that time after the whole kawaii thing like
05:25let's look at the spurs right they had the kawaii thing and they didn't want to go in the tank so
05:29they traded for demar de rose and they had lamarcus aldridge and they were you know kind of like this
05:34this was like their version of that eventually it came to the point where they had to set it off
05:40and blow things up now the thing that is tough for the heat is they do have this you know pick they
05:44still owe for the terry rozier trade but they are going to be in a situation and they have the 20th
05:48pick this year next year they'll have their own pick and you know like so is this a year where like
05:54they would do a soft reset take a step back get themselves in the lottery 2026 your cap space
06:02clears and if luka doesn't extend then you get into the game for him as a free agency like that
06:09that has to be asked or do you really think that there's going to be something in uh in in the idea
06:15of like if janice becomes available or if uh if if joker or whoever kevin durant if adding kevin
06:24of all the options kevin durant could go to if he could go to houston or he could go to miami right
06:29now houston you know so like these are the things that has to be asked one of the frustrating things
06:34about all of this is all those teams that you just talked about houston um you know some of these
06:46younger teams they throw their young players in and took take their lumps they also bought them out
06:52that's that's but that's that's the point that i was getting at is that they went wherever those
06:58young guys took them right and it wasn't good the first year um cleveland struggled a little bit too
07:05when those young guys because they made a lot of mistakes um i think that's where we are now in
07:13basketball is that let those young guys get some experience because guess what i think all we did
07:22this year is prolong the the the finding out whether kalal or or jovic can be those guys because
07:34you really fell in love with jaime and then you fell out of love with him deserved he stunk but but
07:42that's it's just because you have success early right as you get on in your career that's when you become
07:49more consistent it's spotty right now because they're young or they're new nba players 25 is
07:55right there with no new that's why i changed it
07:59i changed it right because i knew where you were going
08:04and you just blew by it like i never said nothing anyway these new nba players
08:13a lot of teams are just letting them take their lumps figure out what they have and move on from
08:19there like just because jaime had a good rookie year doesn't mean he's gonna build on it he's still
08:26gonna have some ups and downs because he's young and early in his career how's that that happens
08:34but like now all of a sudden he's on the bench because yeah his second year in the nba he wasn't
08:42as good as he was his first year it happens like we gotta get off of this like remember think about
08:52this everybody says jordan was the greatest right the greatest you know the first five years of his
08:59career everybody said he's not a winner he's just a score you're doing the jordan thing yes but
09:05because the person you want to make you want no no no no no i'm just saying no tom brady was great
09:09early football's different basketball they say you get into your prime 26 27 okay so let's get to
09:18this then though so is the answer then do the heat have a step back year because like it doesn't make
09:24sense i don't know because they didn't play their young guys so if they that's what a step back year
09:29would be now if they have to rely on them well i'm not i'm talking about a year they're not gonna
09:34they're not gonna be close like i'm talking about a year where yeah you're gonna be i mean hell
09:37they won 37 games this year what's winning 30 next year what's my 25 next year i i would say this
09:44if you give me consistent peller minutes jovich minutes kaleo minutes all right hymie minutes
09:55right whatever they may be that they ain't gonna win no less than 37
10:01do not maybe not i don't know i'm do not
10:0737 is the basement
10:12of what i think this team with this length and this youth could do
10:18we never saw it we never saw it because they're gonna be at a crossroads like put the pat riley
10:24stuff aside like i think i'm not even talking about pat riley i'm just talking about the team i know
10:29you're not the national heads calling him to step aside to me pat riley gets to go out on his own
10:33terms he created this if pat riley wants to stick around in my eyes he's going to stick around and i mean
10:38the same way with spo i don't your marcos wants to kick him upstairs well i don't think spell needs
10:44to be kicked upstairs but there does have to be a recalibration in the organization and i don't know
10:49what that is as far as do they want to go either a go take a real risk on some talent that maze has
10:57some baggage to it what much like jimmy did by the way uh jimmy could play but jimmy was always a player
11:03he may but he had added but he had attitude baggage and he had durability baggage but he was a playoff
11:08winner he was in philly this here i think with the youth that you have the one thing that helps
11:20getting youth forward into their careers is consistency i don't think you can have a leader
11:28who is inconsistent with his availability okay you gotta hope like hell you can win
11:35the kevin durant sweepstakes which nobody loses that sweepstakes more than the miami heat this
11:42would be the fourth time they've done that if they don't get kevin durant yeah and i don't even know
11:47what that makes you bam tyler and kevin durant don't even forget also put in that younger talent
11:54but you're gonna have to trade some of that younger talent to get them but kevin durant some
11:59of it you're gonna have to get rid of somebody what do you think i'm gonna do it you turned it to
12:03me you think you're gonna get it for hymie and terry hymie and terry no that's what you do now now
12:08all of a sudden wait now all of a sudden this dude got some get right i mean terry's a good trade
12:14you wanted to get zion for terry roger and and hymie i think we can do that trade see what i'm saying
12:21i think we can do that but when i say let's do that for kevin durant no but i think we know but
12:25i think we could do that trade huh 20th pick terry roger duncan robinson for zion yeah yeah you
12:33think they would do that hell yeah they got a first round pick and they get zion off their hands
12:38so let's see what this looks like
12:40zion
12:44who at some point during the season is going to get into an ashtron controversy no it is just going
12:50to be an empanada sitting on the bench right right okay so hold on so we got that or no we
13:00take a step back here i'm not jaz out of the question i'm not talking about okay okay he's he's
13:05in other categories so it's either baggage young guy who's going to look for a new destination make
13:10so we'll call that the trade jaz zion uh trade jaz zion category a young talented guy with a lot of
13:19baggage and big question mark yes the kd with a slice of maybe even though i don't know if you
13:26got enough to get him maybe or you take a step back maybe move on from tyler hero because he's
13:35going to want his extension here's let me finish let me finish let me finish and you play the young
13:40guys you figure it out you get the best pick that you can next year and you'll have a lot of money
13:48coming off the books and then maybe you make a run at whatever 2026 is maybe that's ant-man maybe
13:55that's luka whatever so those are their options okay