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Still a Heat fan
Here are my feelings on Spoles: Overall he is a good coach. Before the big 3 era Miami was a playoff team with Wade and a bunch of guys like Jermaine O'neal and a very immature Mike Beasley. He inserted Mike Miller into the lineup against the Spurs in game 4 in 2013 with us down 2 - 1 and we ended up winning 3 out of 4 games. The year before that he matched up Battier on Ibaka and Battier lit up the Thunder and forced Ibaka out of the lane for LeBron/Wade. He used the small ball lineup very effectively against the C's, the Pacers, and the Spurs. He even had Vogel and then the great Pops sit Hibbert and Duncan at key times because of matchup problems he presented with a flawed Miami Heat team. He has gone to the finals four times.. he has won 2 titles. He isn't getting fired anytime soon. He has honestly had one bad year as a coach, this year. A year ravished with injuries and the Heat overcoming the best player in the league leaving them. He has improved a ton as a coach since he was first hired and everyone outside of the most hardcore Heat fans said "who?". I complain about him. I complained at times when Riley was the coach. We need to get better at halftime adjustments. We do. I believe he will. The thing I always want to know when someone wants a coach gone is simple... who else? What free agent coach out there is better?