Re: Celtics

["Jon Michael Hamm" <jonmichael@honors.educ.ou.edu>]

At 05:51 PM 5/5/97 -0700, Roy Enrile wrote:
>
>On Mon, 5 May 1997, Alex Caporicci wrote:
>
>> 
>>         What I wanted to ask, what was Pitino's style in New York when he
>> coached the Knicks? I never got a chance (or remember) to see Pitino coach
>> in the NBA. Will he implement a type of pressure system (similar to Phoenix
>> in the first 6 or 7 minutes in Game 5 or the defence he's famous for in
>> Kentuck) or will it be a standard NBA man-to-man defence. I know he can't
>> play zone (illegal defence), but what will Pitino use? Any ideas?
>> 
>
>     I think when Pitino was coaching the Knicks, they were famous
>for their fullcourt/halfcourt presses, and the # of 3's they
>took.  It was Patrick Ewing and the bomb squad(Mark jackson, 
>Gerald Wilkins, Trent Tucker, Rod Strickland).

That's about right. Pitino utilized athletes such as Kenny Walker and Johny
Newman (back when they were, well, good) to press quite a bit. Seems like he
also depended on the vets alot (Kiki Vandeweghe, Sidney Green), and I think
he also put some development into rookies when he could.



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