Celtic woes

[jmc@ptc.com]

Thanks, Warwick, for adding some sanity to this discussion.  
Rick Pitino knows basketball.  He coaches games well.  He teaches 
well.  He's made good player moves as GM.  His system works when 
applied properly.  His only problem is keeping players feeling 
positive when things go wrong.  He has trouble getting players out 
of ruts, and as Warwick pointed out, his style of teaching contributes 
to that.  

However, I've noticed that the team's morale is going down more slowly 
this year than last year during the losing.  Maybe Pitino is learning. 

Jon Mc

Warwick <titans@ihug.com.au> said:

> 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.