After a bad loss to a previously winless Seattle team, one in which Shaquille O'Neal did his best to latch himself to the bench with fouls and looked uninterested when he was on the floor, Pat Riley used words like ''nothing at stake'' and threatened ''massive changes'' if things didn't change.

"I said, yeah, we're 1-7, if I'm going to make changes, I'm going to make changes," Riley said Tuesday. "It could be massive. It could be two guys. That's pretty massive. It could be somebody out of the rotation. It could be bringing in somebody from the outside."