Re: Pierce, Riley and Walker

[Vinny Natale <vnatale@map.com>]

In the post-game press conference someone asked Pitino if it was a must win
even though it was only the second game of the season.  Pitino admitted
that it was given that it is only a 50 game season.

Vinny



At 07:45 PM 2/6/99 -0700, Jim Meyer wrote:
>Monitoring the game from ESPNs gamecast, asside from a couple of key
>defensive rebounds by Walker, the only name I saw in the last 5 minutes was
>Pierce.  Bunch of nice clutch freethrows and tip in from an offensive
>rebound after Riley missed 2 free throws.
>
>Riley had 6pts, 11reb, 5blks in 40 minutes compared to Ilgauskas 16pts,
>10rebs, 1blk...not tearing up the offense but will he be "good enough" in
>the middle once he's really in shape and knows the system better?  We
>outrebounded them pretty good according to box scores.
>
>Hard to say you need a win on only the second game of the season...but I
>think we did.  We got it.
>
>Still some problems to work out and we need to work through some injuries,
>but me with my Green tinted glasses on...I'm pumped.
>
>Jimbo
>