Pat Riley: The best Taobao master in the league
The Clippers haven't made it to the West Conference Finals in 50 years, and this poor business operation can't help but remind people of Pat Riley——— the best Taobao master in the league. Since the retirement of "Flash" Wade last season, the Miami Heat, which lacks star leadership, has not been optimistic, but it was not expected that the team that ranked tenth in the East last year actually achieved a good result of 44 wins and 29 losses this year, ranking fourth in the East with a winning rate of 60.4%, not only playing in the playoffs, but also expected to reach the Finals. With such achievements, the team president Pat Riley can be said to have contributed.
Speaking of Pat Riley, fans with more than 30 years of football experience are no strangers, this is a well-known figure in the league. Since the early 1980s, Pat Riley has coached the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks and Miami Heat, led the team to eight NBA championships, and won the NBA Coach of the Year award three times in 1990, 1993 and 1997. He led the team to a total of 1122 wins, is the fourth most winnable head coach in the NBA, and is known as the god operator. His iconic big back was all the rage in the league in those days.
Riley is not only a great coach, but also a great businessman. In 1995, he gave up his coaching career and became the president of the Heat, and under his operation, the clever hands were connected, making the Heat, a fish belly team for many years, gradually become the strongest team in the league. In 2003, Wade was selected in the draft, and in 2004, "Shark" O'Neal was a big bet, but Riley won the bet, winning the championship for the team in 2006. In 2010, Riley made a bigger bet, attracting the "little emperor" James and Bosh, and since then they have reached the finals for four consecutive years, and won the 2012 and 2013 championships, once again becoming the winner of the game.
In 2019, Wade retired, and the discerning Riley used his usual shrewdness to "Taobao" among a group of third-rate players, invited star player Jimmy Butler, and discovered a new group of three-point shooters such as Duncan Robinson and Taylor Hilo, making the team that has always been dominated by internal lines and lack of three-point ability transform into the most projection ability team in the league. This season, the Heat's three-point shooting rate is the first in the league, the average three-point shooting per game is the sixth in the league, and the playoffs swept the Bucks, the best in the regular season, and reached the Eastern Conference Finals, which is really impressive.
In the past 15 years, under the operation of Pat Riley, the Heat have won 3 championships, 5 Eastern Conference championships, and 7 Eastern Conference Finals. Looking at the current Heat team, the highest pick is Iguodala with the 9th pick, the second highest player is Taylor Hilo with the 13th pick in 2019, Butler is the 30th pick, Dragic is the 45th pick, and Nunn and Robinson are losing the draft... Leading such a group of star-studded teams to reach the Eastern Conference Finals, I have to say that Riley's operational ability and Taobao ability are really strong, worthy of the league's most prestigious ace manager and "Taobao master" in 30 years.