Hey Mark...do you do lottery numbers?

[damekmo@teleport.com]

Mark wrote:

>One thing I haven't seen anyone on the list mention is Antoine's comment after
>Tuesday's game, when he said he was worrying too much about his shooting
>percentage in the first few games. I thought this was a great point.
>Although we
>all want him to shoot a higher percentage, I think we'd all agree we want
>it to
>happen naturally. The one thing we don't want is our best player
>second-guessing
>himself or worrying about missing shots. A coach once said to me
>"basketball is
>a game of risks, and winners take them." I believe that's true, the key is
>taking calculated risks. Anyway, it seemed to me that the more aggressive
>Antoine just seemed to loosen the entire team up.

Pitino on Pierce (from this morning's Globe):

>''He without question has what Antoine has, what Ron [Mercer] has, what
>Kenny has. They are not afraid to do things. They're risk-takers, and you
>like to see that.''

Very nice Mark.

Paul M.