Miami Heat president Pat Riley in his season-ending media chat sent a bit of a mixed, vague message, I thought.<\/p>\n
He mentioned the need for changes — which you\u2019d certainly expect after being swept from the first round by Cleveland, losing the last game by 55 points and being outscored by 122 over four games. He specifically said the team would not \u201crun it back.\u201d<\/p>\n
But he also stressed praise for the core of Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo (especially Herro) as well as for promising young players like Kel\u2019el Ware, implying that was something to build around, not blow up.<\/p>\n
He also noted that, in the modern NBA, the Heat would need a possibly available superstar (like Giannis Antetokounmpo; my example, not his) to want the Heat, and then involve other teams to make a deal happen. It would be complicated.<\/p>\n
What I inferred was a likelihood Miami will build around Herro\/Adebayo, not go whale-hunting. I may be wrong. This offseason will tell.<\/p>\n
The question here, in our latest Poll Dance: What do you want the Heat to do or think they should?<\/p>\n
Vote as many times as you\u2019d like or until your fingers get tired.<\/p>\n
GREG COTE POLL DANCE: What would you prefer Heat do this offseason?:<\/p>\n
Previous Poll Dance verdict: Dolphins draft grade close, but \u2018C\u2019 edges \u2018B\u2019: We asked, \u201cHow would you grade the Miami Dolphins\u2019 2025 NFL Draft?\u201d You said: \u201cC\/Average\u201d 43%, \u201cB\/Above average\u201d 36%, \u201cD\/Below average\u201d 13%, \u201cA\/Excellent\u201d 7%. Overall it was average-or-below beating excellent-or-above average, 56-43%. (Extra-big response to this one! Thanks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Heat president Pat Riley in his season-ending media chat sent a bit of a mixed, vague message,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[1179,7,305,123,144,981,295,4249,189,3881,6,2483,492],"class_list":{"0":"post-26294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-bam-adebayo","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","12":"tag-heat","13":"tag-kelel-ware","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-dolphins","16":"tag-miami-heat","17":"tag-miamiheat","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-pat-riley","20":"tag-tyler-herro"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114492061989986149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}