Not even Pat Riley could wiggle off this hook.

He said he wanted to give youth a try, but he now has a group of mostly 30-somethings as he enters his seventh season coaching the Miami Heat.

So surely Riley would admit he changed his mind and went back to a more familiar formula.

Think again. Riley is wily enough to even put a spin on a concept as concrete as age.

"It depends on how you define what young is," Riley said. "I've got some old guys who are young."

After the laughter dies down, Riley, now laughing himself, continues his not-so-convincing argument.