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Five wins. Thirty-nine losses. Humiliation. Ridicule. Riots outside the stadium. Awful players. Retreads like Rony Seikaly, the Heat's Great White Hope who cannot even shoot layups, have made Miami Coach Larry Rothstein look like a Great White Dope...
...Rothstein shouldn't mope. Lousy teams can gain respectability as quickly as you can say, "The Chicago Bulls select Michael Jordan...
Basketball powerhouses seem to magically materialize. Rothstein should look at the Knicks' journey as evidence that a little wisdom and a lot of luck can change the fortunes of even the sorriest teams...
...Heat, before Rothstein reaches for the Great White Rope, he can take solace that 1) the Heat's long-term success is a short-term possibility and 2) the Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic are slated to enter the league next year. So Rothstein should be able to cope. But compete with the Knicks? Nope...
...time. Perhaps if he had focused tightly on the team's inner dynamics, seen the unfolding tragedy entirely through the players' eyes and kept everyone else at a distance, he might have done better. But outsiders, ranging from ) sportswriters like Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn); Third Baseman Weaver (John Cusack), an appealing victim; and Kid Gleason, their manager (John Mahoney...