Stan Van Gundy to Heat: ‘Don’t cry,’ you ‘brought this on yourself’

Stan Van Gundy is The Man, and not only because he’s a Ron Jeremy doppelganger. One of the most quotable coaches ever, today the Orlando Magic coach tells us what he thinks of the Miami Heat losing the NBA Finals, and this whole “Everybody hates us” attitude that the Heat adopted in the playoffs. Van Gundy, on 790 The Ticket in Miami:

“I’m not going to feel bad that you are struggling on a basketball court because you only get to within two wins of a championship. Come on there was nothing to feel sorry for. I got a little tired I’ll admit of the whole everybody hates us routine. I thought first of all it’s not true. Okay it’s the same as the Yankees type of thing. There’s just a lot of people interested, so there may be more people who dislike you. There are also more people that like you. There’s a great deal of interest. Second of all they brought it on…LeBron more than anybody. They brought all that scrutiny and attention on yourself. You went out seeking it then don’t cry in the face of it. That to me got to be a very tiresome story line.”

Van Gundy also said that he doesn’t agree that LeBron wilts in the fourth quarter (“He didn’t against us”). It’s just that the Mavericks made him look bad in the finals.

Audio here.

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