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Riley in planning mode for next season.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
MIAMI _ In the wake of Sunday's season-ending loss to the Knicks, Heat coach Pat Riley on Tuesday said he wants to re-sign point guard Tim Hardaway and expressed reluctance to make wholesale roster changes, but he did not rule out trading one or more members of the team's nucleus.
"We will definitely try to improve in some areas that we need help," Riley said after meeting with his players for about 40 minutes at AmericanAirlines Arena. "We have to get to another level, and probably the next level we get to is going to have to be with additional talent some way. . . . I'm going to give it great thought, take about a month to analyze everything and start making decisions.
"We have a great, great, great core, and you don't want to mess with that because you can go back to ground zero quick. . . . But we need to get more athletic and we will address that. There will be many opportunities this summer to explore taking us up to a higher level. We will explore to the deepest part of our soul.
"We got beat, so maybe we're not good enough. Obviously, we weren't good enough to beat that team. I don't know what it would be like playing anybody else."
Riley accepted blame: "If there's anybody who has failed, I've failed. I've known we've had faults, and I have tried to make the players better. As the coach, I have failed in correcting those faults.
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...the selection of a point guard in Thursday's...Heat coach Pat Riley said there was no...Perhaps that's why Riley downplayed the possibility...level exception at point guard, even with his...ve got a young point guard that we like...as that chapter, Riley said he ...
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- Newspaper article from: Blade (Toledo, OH) March 18, 2007 700+ words
...about her matchup with Andrea Riley, Oklahoma State's freshman point guard. She figures if the Cowgirls...the game in other aspects." Riley, the Cowgirls' second-leading...she's awfully talented." Riley has displayed an air of confidence...
