Re: Coaching

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Weak case. Pitino lost a game and maybe 2 because of his ability to adapt
to reality. All I know is we won a big game against a big team with an
assistant Mr. O'Brien. Maybe the Fleet likes Irish coaches. Pitino's
mistake was assuming the fresh troups we have could carry the day. Wrong.
Today'a modern theory is "no one is to blame". Someone has to be
accountable. Thus the judgements on Pitino and Walker. Tonites game against
Philly will tell us more about our coach. 

At 11:45 AM 12/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
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>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."
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>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?"
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>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.
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>Bentz Kirby
>bocelts@usit.net
>http://www.public.usit.net/bocelts/
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