Pat Riley interviewed

Drew Voros interviews Pat Riley -- a few snippets:

...[Head Coach] Erik Spoelstra is one of the new state-of-the-art technological coaches. He believes in these numbers. He uses them to set up the offense and defense, especially offensively, and who are the best players to complement LeBron and Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, our best assets. Numbers and analytics play a big part in true field goal percentage, or how we can space the floor. The numbers tell us that Shane Battier and Rashard Lewis play better when LeBron and Chris and Udonis Haslem are on the court...

...We spent four years planning the 2010 free agency [that brought Lebron James and Chris Bosh to the team, and re-signed Dwayne Wade]. All we wanted to do was make sure our team had enough money, to be able to go out and sign three marquee free agents, because we knew these free agents were going to become available in 2010. So we pointed toward 2010 as a goal, to be able to really build our team...

...We don’t like to build through the draft. If you’re going to do that, then you’re probably going to have to lose for two or three or four years in a row, and get high lottery picks. In my 19 years here, we’ve been in the lottery three times. We ended up getting three good players out of that...