RE: RP on Barros

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

I seem to recall similar statements about Fox & Billups.


On Thursday, April 09, 1998 8:55 AM, Theresa Lee [SMTP:tjoyce@mit.edu] wrote:
> During the pregame show last night, Pitino talked about Dana Barros. He
> said that is the best backup point guard in the league and he would not
> trade him for any other point guard in the league. He went on to say that
> Dana has worked hard and learned defense and that he had great value to the
> team. Dana was requoted as saying that if he had had this type of coaching
> earlier in his career, who knows what would have happened.
> 
> On the face of it, I could believe Pitino. Or, this could be a way of
> increasing Dana's trade value. I personally hope not, but then we've seen
> Pitino's public praise result in a trade before.
> 
> Hmmmm.
> 
> Theresa
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