[外電] Wade offers apology; Riley's focus on title

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MIAMI ?Dwyane Wade walked up the court, Detroit's Richard Hamilton sprinted, and the Heat guard's frustration when no foul was called on the previous possession cost his team a basket in Thursday night's 95-82 loss to the Pistons. "I apologized to the team for it," Wade said after Friday's practice. "You don't want to ever do that. I try not to say anything to the refs, but once in a while, I do. It hurt my team because they ended up scoring in transition." Coach Pat Riley recognizes that no apologies will be acceptable when the season is over, and he made it clear when discussing the team's play, officiating and the remainder of the season. He realizes the franchise's highly successful business model isn't enough. "Quite frankly, right now, there is only one ending," Riley said. "It is either going to be good, or it is going to be bad. There isn't going to be any in between. There are a lot of good things going on, but the expectation of winning a championship is all people want to hear about, and it's all I want to hear about. "One of our guys said the other day that we'll find out who we are when it really counts. Every year, there has been a story and an ending. Sometimes when the ending was bad, we were satisfied with it, even the city and fans were satisfied. We knew that it mattered and counted, and we were trying to do the right thing." Tonight's game at Washington begins with the Heat holding on to a two-game lead over New Jersey for the second-seed in the Eastern Conference. With an 18-20 record against teams over .500, the team needs to stop worrying about the officiating. "I think that it affects Shaquille [O'Neal] and Dwyane, but they have to be above it," Riley said. "We are the hunters, and sometimes the hunted get certain privileges and liberties." Against the Pistons, whom the Heat has beaten only three times in the past 15 meetings, O'Neal and Wade had 57 points but only nine in the fourth quarter. Better support is needed. "From 79-77, it was like the Four Tops record, It's the Same Old Song,'" Riley said. "Collectively, the better teams get it done against us better than we do collectively against them." The Pistons had 27 transition points, and the Heat didn't make a 3-point basket for only the second time this season. The complementary players to O'Neal and Wade were 10 for 34 from the field. "It isn't collective points," Riley said. "It is collective everything. It is collective loose balls, rebounds, getting back on defense, covering for one another. Collectively, we didn't play well enough to get the kind of shots for that we needed to score." O'Neal Fined The NBA has fined O'Neal $15,000 for publicly criticizing the officials after Sunday's loss at New Jersey. He claimed there was "a double standard" and blamed it on a disagreement he had with NBA Vice President Stu Jackson who assessed three after-the-fact flagrant fouls against him earlier in the season. "When you've got a guy like Stu Jackson at the top," O'Neal said after the 90-78 loss to the Nets, "it shows why those referees are the way they are. It starts at the top." Haslem injured Power forward Udonis Haslem said he suffered a slight left shoulder separation Tuesday against Milwaukee, but he plans to play with the injury ... Small forward James Posey did some running during practice, but he wasn't sure how much he will play ... The Heat is 8-6 on the front end and back end of 14 back-to-backs but has swept only five. The team is 28-25 on the front end and 28-25 on the back end of back-to-backs over the past three years. -- MiamiHeat http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=zenwu&book=56 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 203.217.124.144