Re: ANTOINE'S CONTRACT

[Mike Dynon <mdynon@ix.netcom.com>]

Dear Kim,
You must have a lot of time on your hands lately, because you've written
at length numerous times to share your knowledge about so many topics. 
If you want to accuse me of changing your meaning, which may have
happened, but was unintentional, that's fine.  If you don't want to
believe Pitino, although as I watched his press conference it certainly
seemed to me he was speaking from the heart, that's fine, too.  However,
you are undeniably WRONG about one thing.  My name is "Dynon," not
"Dyson."  Thanks for your consideration, and have a nice day.

Kim Malo wrote:
> 
> At 06:52 PM 4/26/98 -0400, Mike Dyson wrote:
> >Kim Malo wrote:
> >>
> >> This BTW is at the core of my disgust with people constantly saying to make
> >> allowances for him, because he's young.
> >
> >It's not just some list members who've said that.
> 
> Didn't say it was. Look at what you quopted.
> 
> >  Pitino himself said
> >it at length after the last home game.  I transcribed and posted the
> >comments, in which the coach mentioned players such as Mark Jackson who
> >had grown out of their immaturity.  Since Pitino knows Walker personally
> >and we don't, his opinion should carry more weight.
> 
> And you snipped my post, changing what I seemed to be saying, by eliminating
> the central point. Which was NOT just that people say to make excuses for
> him because he's young. The part you snipped said that I had a problem with
> people saying to simultaneously make allowances for him and brush off his
> questionable actions because he's young and still developing but pay him as
> if that wan't the case, and he was a mature sure thing. That's not what
> Pitino said, either.
> 
> I've no problem, to a degree, with making allowances for his age. It's a
> valid point. But his immaturity is not just chronological, and if it's a
> valid point in accounting for his behavior, then it's a valid point in
> deciding whether he's worth locking that much money and cap space up in.
> 
> He may very well grow out of it. Some do, as you and Pitino point out, but
> more don't. For every Mark Jackson, there are several Todd Days. And while I
> agree that Pitino certainly knows him much better than I ever will, it's
> been pointed out here before how unsafe it is to take anything Pitino says
> for public consumption at face value.
> 
> -Kim
> Kim Malo
> kmalo19@idt.net