RE: NBA coach needed

["John Lyell" <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

Yeah just wait until we win about 25 again before we do it.  It is pretty
obvious to most that even with Pierce this team can not compete with the
upper or even mid-echelon teams, on a nightly basis. We might get one here
and there but with the exception of a few players, this team is really full
of crappy players. We have not even hit the tough Western teams yet with.


I not necessarily saying it is all Pitino's fault, but with the exception of
Barros & Ellison, he built this team, so don't make any excuses for him. He
has just made some poor player decisions. Alex what is your excuse for the
losses to the Rockets without Hakim or Barkley  and teams like the Bulls ?










-----Original Message-----
From: owner-celtics@igtc.com [mailto:owner-celtics@igtc.com]On Behalf Of
Alex Wang
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 8:22 PM
To: celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: NBA coach needed


I wish that people would actually wait a whole season before
calling for the coach's head. I mean, what did you expect from
watching this game? The Spurs were 10-1 at home, we are missing
most of our big man depth and our top player, they are the
defending champs, we are in the middle of a grueling stretch
of games mostly on the road.

It's like one of us having a bad week at work because of some
sort of outside circumstances - say illness or a death in the
family - and getting fired because of it. Let's let the coach
show what he can do over the course of an entire season instead
of over a single injury-plagued stretch against tough teams
on the road.

Alex

> I'm probably speaking out of frustration of watching the Celtics-
> Spurs game, but I feel that its time for a change. I don't buy the
> excuse that we have a lot of injuries--at least we should be
> competitive. ML Carr's teams had about the same talent level as
> this current Pierce-less, Potapenko-less team, but they competed
> so much more. I thought Rick was supposed to be this brilliant
> head coach, even called the best coach in the business. If so,
> where's the results? I'm sure that someone like DJ or Ainge could
> do a better job. Rick should go back to college.
>
> -David
>