Re: Pitino... and I'll stop

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

Well, if he never benched Antoine for a game, Pitino obviously never did 
anything to improve his shot selection.  C'mon, Paul.  This is an 
obvious attempt to shift the blame for something you know the list 
didn't like from Antoine to Pitino.  I have no doubts that Antione was 
told to take high percentage shots.  If he doesn't know what that means, 
he certainly isn't ready to be given a hundred million dollars.  
Personally, I'd have like to see better shot selection at times from 
Antoine, but he was carrying the team offensively.  If he continues to 
do it when Kenny Anderson is creating better opportunities for him and 
others, then we have a problem.

Jim

>From: damekmo@teleport.com
>Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:14:15 -0900
>To: celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Pitino... and I'll stop
>
Let me give you one last example. Everybody
>thinks Antoine shouldn't be taking all those shots. Certainly shouldn't 
be
>taking so many threes. It's stupid. Walker took over 130 more threes
>playing for Pitino than he did for ML. He played big minutes taking 130
>more "questionable" shots under a guy trying to coach than he did for a 
guy
>who just let him go. Do you want the kid taking almost 300 threes a 
year?
>Well...if not...where was his coach? I don't think it's unreasonable to
>suggest that this might be an example of bad coaching


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