Pat Riley Beat Quotations

He just got beat down there, didn't he? Phil is one of the great complainers of all time.

Basically, one guy beat us. ... Vince was unbelievable.

I was concerned a little bit. We know the NBA when you have a big win on national television. I've seen a half-dozen teams this year have those kinds of wins and the next day get beat by anybody. You just sort of let down. It's natural. We really tried to guard against that.

I said that already before. Of course they (ESPN) made big deal of it. That's what they do. But it's the same thing I've told to my beat writers.

We will get beat tomorrow night if we bring any of the defensive lapses that we had against Seattle.

Vince Carter basically beat us. He was unbelievable not only as a shot-maker but also drawing fouls.

We were fortunate that he (Deng) missed the shot. We didn't want Gordon to beat us.

The upside is there could be absolute power dominance inside. But the downside is somebody could say, 'OK, you're going to go big, I'm going to go with five guards -- one shooting center and four guards.' And then who's going to beat who first?

Somewhere along the way, for us to step up, we've got to beat good teams.