Pat Riley was at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday to scout the Big East Tournament.
Riley briefly agreed to talk at halftime of the Connecticut-Georgetown game. Riley was asked what is currently wrong with the Heat.
“Hey, look, tough times are good times for me. But don’t make me go there today. You know what’s going to happen if I do that? In New York, if I didn’t create a crisis with the Knicks, the crisis was created for us. In Miami, it needs me to help it along just by opening my mouth.”
Riley was also asked about Erik Spoelstra's job security.
“Write it off. Write it off. It’s the media being neurotic. It’s their need to make a story, create a story, and make that story come true. And that ain’t going to happen. Write it off. We’re just in a tough time right now, we’ll get through it.”
Riley expects Miami to figure out to score late in games.
“I know they’ll get it. But everyone has to overreact to things right now. We’re going through some tough times and we will get through it. It’s like anything else, like I always say, the playoffs will tell. Everything else now is just rhetoric. And we’re getting ready for that time. And I don’t really care what position we play from.”
