Re: Coaching

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

Amen Alex.  Down by 14 right now to Philly and Rick is making wholesale
substitutions.  Griffin has 3 fouls.  If not for Rick, he would only have 2
fouls ;-)

Cecil

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Coaching


> Dan F writes:
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> > 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.
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> One half doesn't prove much of anything. It's not like the Celtics
> haven't beaten Miami under Pitino and his supposedly irresponsible
> substitution patterns before, either. Even in this game, Pitino had
> the Celtics leading before he was ejected, so it wasn't like suddenly
> he was ejected and the Celtics, with their newfound substitution
> patterns started winning. And this "someone is to blame" for every
> single game is getting out of hand too, especially when the team WINS.
> Some people want to blame Pitino every time the team loses, as if the
> other team had a bunch of high school players with no talent who never
> outplay the Celtics, just outcoach them. The same people never give
> Pitino any credit for wins, only blame for losses. And now we have
> Pitino getting criticized because the team won when he got ejected.
> If the team had lost, he would have been criticized for losing his
> temper when the team needed him. I can understand the frustration when
> the Celtics lost three in a row, but we don't need all the negativity
> after what I agree is a big game against a big team.
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