Re: They stunk it up!

[W <titans@ihug.com.au>]

Josh Ozersky wrote:

> Not to say that he doesn't deserve the heat, but I
> never thought I would see the day when I would hear
> that Pitino was a competent GM but a bad coach.  As
> convincing as Dan Jessen's post is, I still feel like
> I can't second-guess Pitino in terms of x and o
> coaching.  He must see something we don't out there.
> Hubie didn't seem to think he was coaching badly, and
> he should know, as the ultimate X and O guy.  From
> what I gathered, he thought they were just playing bad
> -- bad spacing, bad defense, bad rebounding.  It's
> really confusing to me.  Pitino's Knicks teams were
> ultra-professional on both sides of the court.

Josh,

For the first time in my entire Celtic and Rick Pitino following life
*grin*
I've never thought of it like this. There is only very few X and O
coaches in the world better than our Rick Pitino. That is far from the
problem with him.

The problem with Rick Pitino is the constant pressuring that he puts
on his players. Whenever they do something wrong hes talking to them
at the very next break from play, be it during free throws or what not.
He
simply has to let his team learn by themselves. Let them take the hard
bump, dont call them over to daddy and tell them it'll be alright if you
did
this that and the other thing because I'll tell you right now that
players
simply will listen to that for so long and so long only and after a
while they
will stop listening to the coach and when that happens it doesn't matter
how
good an X and O coach you are, it wont get through to your players.

At times during the match against the Kings it was blatantly obvious
that it
had happend. To cap it off I saw Walter McCarty and one other player
laughing
while the team was 20 points down. Puh-lease.

W