Heat general manager Randy Pfund was an assistant coach under Pat Riley in Los Angeles, and he remembers watching Riley set the bar for himself as a head coach.

''I remember the difference between the years that you would win [an NBA title] and didn't win,'' Pfund said. 'All summer, people said congratulations. Everywhere you went it was, `Way to go. Congratulations.' The years you didn't win, even if you got to the Finals, it was, 'Gee, that's too bad. You didn't get it done.' And, `Maybe next year.'