Pat Riley Foresees Refunds, Armageddon

You'd think by now Pat Riley would be getting used to this losing business, right? And as team president, he might start to adopt a big picture view and appreciate the team's march toward Michael Beasley? Well, it hasn't happened yet. After getting smoked by the Raptors on Wednesday, Riley called out both his team and his coaching performance yet again, but this time Miami fans might want to actually listen. From the Sun-Sentinel:

"Just a lack of effort and a horrible attitude," Riley said after his team fell to 11-47. "The attitude they showed, I should write a check to each season-ticket holder.

"I should write the check and not even them, because I can't get them to play hard."

[...] By now it is clear that the offseason overhaul will be extensive.

"There'll be a day of reckoning," Riley said. "They'll be somewhere else.

"I've got to ferret out the guys who really don't care."

He's obviously not serious, but if Riles were to put his money where his mouth is, what would a refund cost him? The Sun-Sentinel reports the team's single-game gate is about $1 million. With that kind of jack, don't you think Riley might be able to do a little better job? At the very least he'd get creative.

While his "day of reckoning" talk sounds tough, it's possible an "end is near" attitude is exactly what's infecting this team: they're burnt out playing for a dictator coach on a team that obviously has nothing to look forward to but the future. And seriously, of the players healthy and able, only Dwyane Wade and Shawn Marion are worth building around. Former first-round picks Dorell Wright (who just went down with a season-ending knee injury) and Daequan Cook are as big of a question mark as they were before the season started, so there's really no telling what this roster looks like in five months.