Re: Coaching

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jaime Salud Castillo, Jr. <jaims@philonline.com>
To: R. Bentz Kirby <bocelts@usit.net>; Celtics <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Coaching


 > We are just saying that Pitino should learn about instincts and not be so
> technical and robotic about substitutions.  Well, definitely, players get
> tired, but you don't put down your guard because you are leading and
winning
> at the moment.  Sure, you have to bring in fresh legs to hustle but do it
> one by one or slowly not changing players by battalions.

Please don't think that I'm picking on you Jaime cuz I'm not.  But didn't
Pitino mention in the game recently where the starters stayed on the bench
for most of the 4th quarter, that they second unit was playing well and
there was no reason to take them out?  Coaching stategy must be adapted to
the situation.  If 3 guys are tired, you don't leave them on the floor for
continuity purposes.  Some of the time, players inform the coach that they
are tired and in need of a substitute.  Should they be forced to remain on
the floor anyway?  I know I have made players stay on for longer than they
would have liked.

Cecil

>
> Anyways, I am glad that you got to vent your anger out.  Hey, we won!  Be
> happy.
>
> Nice to chat about this things, huh.  Thanks.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: R. Bentz Kirby <bocelts@usit.net>
> To: Celtics <celtics@igtc.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 12:45 AM
> Subject: Coaching
>
>
> > Coaching is a hell of a lot more than just guiding a team through one
> > part of one game.  There are not many coaches who could get what Pitino
> > is getting out of this team.  O'Brien couldn't do it if he had all the
> > responsibility.
> >
> > As for substitutions, this has always been Pitino's theory.  That is
> > keep fresh troops coming at them until you overwhelm them.  Sometimes it
> > works, and this list was falling all over itself talking about how smart
> > Pitino was to leave the second team in and keep Toine and others on the
> > bench.  Sometimes it doesn't.  But to think that the assistant is a
> > better coach because he was doing what Pitino told him to do is absurd
> > and a fantasy.  (That's why we are called fans btw.)
> >
> > Get real folks.  There is an old saying, "Even a blind hog finds an
> > acorn once in a while."
> >
> > Do you really think that Pitino was not directing the assistants?  Do
> > you really think they got together and said, "Let's do just the opposite
> > of what Rick wants us to do?"
> >
> > We get carried away sometimes, but this line of thought is absurd at
> > best.  Let's see, and when KC played the starters too much it was, damn
> > you gotta substitute, you are wearing them out, they'll get injured.
> > Now that we sustitute, it is play the starters 48 minutes a game.  I
> > mean, they only have about 67 games to go!
> >
> > If only we could tell Pitino how to run this team.  Damn, I bet we'd
> > have Hughes and DNP Ratliff instead of toine and be playing them 46
> > minutes a game and have a 15-0 record!
> >
> > Sorry, but I just had to vent that.  I feel better now.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Bentz Kirby
> > bocelts@usit.net
> > http://www.public.usit.net/bocelts/
> >
> >
> >
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