[外電] Open Letter to Riles

看板MiamiHeat作者zenwu (橘子)時間14年前 (2009/08/06 14:31)推噓8(8推 0噓 11→)

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Dear Pat Riley, I read about your latest comments on the outlook of your team earlier today. You essentially said that there won't be any major moves in the future, and that the only acquisitions that will be made before the start of training camp will be small one-year deals. You said that you don't see yourself using the mid-level exception. Additionally, you said that there have been no discussions regarding a trade for Carlos Boozer. You said that the ultimate plan remains to see internal growth from the team this season and then make a splash in free agency next summer. Fine, maybe you've learned your lesson from the 2007 off-season, when you attempted to salvage the summer with the trade that brought Ricky Davis and Mark Blount to Miami in exchange for Antoine Walker, Wayne Simien, Michael Doleac and a 2009 first-round pick. A trip to the bottom of the standings followed that trade, of course. And the trade still has its residue, with Blount scheduled to make $8 million this season and Miami lacking a first-round pick this summer. While that trade was a monumental miscalculation, would the Heat really be much better without it? Is it merely a coincidence that Walker, Simien and Doleac are not in the NBA anymore? How much better would Miami have been with Walker in place of Davis and Simien and Doleac in place of Blount? It's understandable that you don't want to make changes just for the sake of making changes, as you did in 2007. The painful truth is that what's already here is inadequate, though. It's inadequate for Dwyane Wade and it's inadequate for me, as a fan who doesn't want to see Wade carry the team on his shoulders to lead the Heat to a mediocre record. You are totally misled on the way you are approaching this off-season. You should be operating with confidence that Wade will re-sign next summer. Why? Because if you position your team to win a championship, your franchise player will stay in Miami. He publicly committed to that. Look at what Danny Ferry is doing for LeBron James in Cleveland. He's positioning his team to win a championship so that it can retain James. Even Bryan Colangelo got Chris Bosh someone who averaged 17 points, five rebounds and five assists last season in Hedo Turkoglu. There's little doubt that Michael Beasley could offer similar production when given the minutes, but Colangelo's counting on the contribution of veterans like Turkogu and Jose Calderon to help Bosh, not on inexperienced players like Beasley, Mario Chalmers and Daequan Cook. Hell, even Andrea Bargnani averaged 15 points for the Raptors last season. Does Wade have that type of offensive support? Everyone knows what your master plan is: to sign Bosh next summer. There is a big problem with this plan: it is very risky. Let's assume that Bosh will bypass returning to Toronto or signing with any other team -- both of which are completely plausible situations. So Miami locks up Wade and Bosh for the duration of their primes. If they both make roughly $20 million, that's about four-fifths of the possible $51 million salary cap next season. If the Heat decides to keep James Jones, Michael Beasley, Daequan Cook and Mario Chalmers -- all who have team options for the 2010-11 season -- that would put Miami at the cap with just six players under contract. Heat owner Micky Arison has said that he'll go into the luxury tax if it is for a contending team, but how deep into the tax is he willing to go? Miami won't be positioning itself to be a big spender in summer 2010 if it doesn't get big revenues during the upcoming season. And I'm betting that, like last season, there will always be a sizable number of empty seats at AmericanAirlines Arena. Make no mistake, if the Heat doesn't get someone who can average at least 20 points a game next summer, Wade will leave. Say what you want about how much money the Heat has to spend in 2010 whether Wade stays or goes. Quite frankly, it will be devastating for the team and the city of Miami to see No. 3 go. Players like Flash don't come around every Draft, and anointing Beasley as the franchise player would require quite a leap of faith. I'd also like to address something that isn't brought up a lot. Your contract with the Heat ends in 2010. Do you really have it in you to go through another rebuilding project from scratch? During your tenure in Miami, the rebuilding project started with Alonzo Mourning's announcement that he had a rare kidney disease prior to the 2000-01 season. It ended with the championship in June 2006. At your age, do you have it in yourself to go through five years of hardships before winning it all? My guess is no. My guess is that if Wade decides to leave Miami, you will too. You're going to have to start thinking about the legacy you leave to the Heat. You made the team relevant with the trades for Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway . You shrewdly drafted Wade in 2003 when the pundits speculated that you would draft Chris Kaman to fill in Mourning's void. You traded for Shaquille O'Neal to bring the Heat from a playoff contender to a championship contender. And the following season, you acquired Walker, Jason Williams and James Posey to move Miami from a championship contender to a championship team. But if you don't get Wade the help he deserves, he will leave. Do you really want to be known as the person who drove away the Heat's unequivocal best player in franchise history? If that's the case, that will be your legacy to Miami. Forget about 'Zo and Tim. Drafting Wade will be washed from the memories of Heat fans. Bringing in Shaq, Walker, Williams and Posey won't matter. All that'll matter is that you let the one great player in franchise history slip from Miami's collective fingers. That's why I am pleading to you as a die-hard Heat fan to get the man some help. Now. ============================================================================== 這篇文章是當地一位熱火的專欄作家寫的... 他說出了大部份球迷的心聲哈哈 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 210.208.154.17

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