You gaze at the Heat's roster and wonder.

You ponder the Heat's off-season options and you wonder.

Then you look at coach Pat Riley, the architect of this thing, and you wonder.

Can he do it? Can Riley, the second winningest coach in NBA history, call on his cunning as team president and wit as a coach to fix this mess?

Was that a chuckle? You say you haven't seen that acumen as a manager or coach recently?

That's what this off-season and the next regular season is all about for the Heat: Whether Riley, given some tools, albeit somewhat limited ones, is still the man to plot the course for this franchise.