Re: Tim Duncan

[Kim Malo <kmalo19@idt.net>]

At 03:35 PM 11/9/98 -0900, Paul M wrote:
>I'll answer those questions, but first, I have a few for you/the group.
>Many was time last year when Peter May wondered when Pitino was going to
>discipline Walker for his shot selection. There was a time, after the
>All-Star game when Walker was shooting something like 34%. He was taking
>shots and missing everything. This went on for a while if I remember
>correctly. At any point did Pitino sit him down for a game? At any point
>during the entire season did he sit him down for a game? Did the discipline
>ever come. What form did it take.
<snip>

Per RP on his show, sitting him down for extra time outside practice and
talking to him and making him watch a lot of film of himself with every
mistake pointed out. The effect after RP said this was noticeable for about
2 games, then back to same old. Scary as it may seem for us to agree twice
within about a week, I'm with you on this. It's probably the thing that
bothered me the most about RP and not just with AW -how much of the dumb
play he seemed to let them get away with without putting a stop to it.
Overall dumb play lost more games than AW's shot selection (even if that has
to be included in the dumb play). I suspect from hints he dropped that with
AW there was a large element of being afraid of losing him altogether if he
yanked him out too much or something like that. Which is ironic given all
the reports out now about how they can't stand each other -I mean, if that's
true, what did he have to lose by doing so? But regardless of where we might
disagree on AW's maturity or lack thereof, I'm with you that RP doesn't seem
to thave done much to improve it. Scary, ain't it?

Nice to have what sounds like the old Paul back, BTW : )

-Kim
Kim Malo
kmalo19@idt.net