<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">n addition to several of the answers that appeared in Sunday's camp preview, there was an attempt to get specific answers from Pat Riley on where Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade stand entering camp.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 1.2em;" face="Times New Roman"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span>Should have known better.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 1.2em;" face="Times New Roman"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span>Question: Is there a definitive timetable on Dwyane Wade's return from his May knee and shoulder surgeries?</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span>Riley: "Right now, that's not important. It's not important from the standpoint of we said, and it was said, six months. There is no doubt that it was six months. So try not to make it any more than it was made out. The timetable is mid-November. That's it. If it's mid-November, that's what it is. We don't know. If something happens if he's not ready in six months, then we will re-address that. He's not behind. Everybody says he's behind. The guy has been working very hard on his shoulder and his knee. Now he's working on his conditioning. We're very, very patient with him, obviously, because he's our franchise player. When you go through a rehab process, it's based on exactly how you feel as you move on down that road."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span>(Hey, we tried.)</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 1.2em;" face="Times New Roman"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span>Question: Will this be a year Shaquille O'Neal arrives to camp in shape, or will there again be a wait on his conditioning?</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span>Riley: "First of all, it's old news. I, as a writer, would finally get off of that with him. I laugh every time I read about it. It's like someone who wants to keep hanging something on a model's face because she covers up her acne with makeup or something. The guy is who he is. He's one of the greatest players to ever play the game. He's a big, big man. Ever since he's been in Miami, he's been in condition. What do you want him to be? 300 pounds. Come on. He's a big man. For everybody to ask him to say you have to be 320 pounds the first day of training camp I think is totally unrealistic for that. We've studied his mass. The guy probably is a 370 pounder. But everybody wants him to be 320, and so they hang this on his head all the time. He's led us to a championship. He's been hurt a couple of times since he's been here and it hasn't been because he broke. He got kneed; he got kneed twice, OK? I think it gets old. I get tired about talking about it."</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 1.2em;" face="Times New Roman"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span>(Again, we tried.)</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 1.2em;" face="Times New Roman"> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style=""> </span>Summary: Riley says Wade will be back when he's back; Riley says stop asking about O'Neal's weight.</div></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Source: Blogs Sun Sentinel</span></p>
