Re: Coaching

["Jaime Salud Castillo, Jr." <jaims@philonline.com>]

Nobody is picking on anybody.  I didn't mean to make you think like that.
Just explaining what's in my mind.

Anyways, thanks for your views also.

----- Original Message -----
From: Cecil Wright <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>
To: Jaime Salud Castillo, Jr. <jaims@philonline.com>; R. Bentz Kirby
<bocelts@usit.net>; Celtics <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: Coaching


>
> ----- 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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