Miami Heat: Erik Spoelstra Has the Ferrari, but Is He Afraid To Drive It?

November 24th, 2010 by Ronnie Hampston Leave a reply »
This season was headlined by the super team put together by Miami Heat brass Micky Arison and Pat Riley. With LeBron and Chris Bosh joining forces with Dwayne Wade this team is expected to win immediately. So far this season the Miami Heat have been decimated with injuries and chemistry issues and are off to an 8-6 start.

Fourteen games is too early to judge a team's success, but with the newly improved roster, excuses are not in favor of the Miami Heat in Erik Spoelstra. Fellow NBA players, coaches and owners have all taken jabs at the Miami Heat for their slow start. Memo to the rest of the NBA: Choose your words wisely—there are still almost 70 games left in the season.

One glaring issue with the Miami Heat has been the coaching performance of Erik Spoelstra. Spo is a young and up-and-coming coach who is at the helm of the Miami Heat. Pat Riley hired Spoelstra because he was a young, energetic coach with a great basketball mind. Not knocking Spoelstra, but I don't think he was up for the lofty expectations this season.

How can a coach like Spoelstra, with a resume as short as Mugsy Bouges, be in the same sentence as Pat Riley, LeBron Jam ...

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