Re: BIRD AS COACH

["Jonathan Brainin" <jbrainin@planet.net>]

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From: Kim Malo <kmalo19@idt.net>
To: celtics@igtc.COM <celtics@igtc.COM>
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: BIRD AS COACH


>At 09:07 PM 5/13/98 -0400, Dorine wrote:
>>    I don't mean to be nit picking, but when I was reading how the Celts
>>are a young team and Pitino was the coach they needed, not Bird, I feel
>>I should point out if Larry had been the Celt's coach we would not have
>>had the team we had.  He would not have picked the same players, in most
>>cases.  Therefore, it's like comparing apples to oranges, isn't it?
>
>Not totally. Because we might not have been as young or have all the same
>players, but we still would have been a rebuilding team, recovering from a
>few years of negative development in acquiring players and in developing
the
>ones we had. That still takes a different, 'teaching' kind of coach, and
one
>who would get on guys' cases after ML's 'don't worry, be happy' approach.
>More Pitino's style than the laissez faire approach Bird used. Indy was a
>perfect situation for Bird -a veteran team where there was more need for a
>change in management style than in teaching guys how to play the game. The
>Cs, even with an unchanged roster from last year, needed a lot more than
>that. Which Bird may not have been as able or willing to deal with.


Don't forget that if Bird were the Celtics coach instead of Pitino that we
could still have ML as our GM.  I shudder to think of it.