Re: Pitino's comments on Battie and Pierce

["Shailendra K Mishra" <skmishra@sprintmail.com>]

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From: jmc@ptc.com <jmc@ptc.com>

>I was quite concerned with Pitino's raving about Paul Pierce.  It either
>means that Pierce is indeed more than we hoped for, or he's pumping him up
>in order to trade him.  The only thing that makes me hopeful that Pitino
>wasn't exaggerating much about Pierce is that Red Auerbach said he was a
>real steal at the #10 pick, and Red's not one to play word games; he
>normally tells it like he sees it.

Magic too thinks that Pierce has the potential to be an all star and he has
scrimmaged with him.

> Another thing that lends some hope is
>>that the day before the lockout was over, on Wednesday, I went over to the
>Brandeis gym (I'm an alum of Brandeis so I can get in) and watched some
>of the scrimmage the players had organized, which they held out in the open
>instead of behind closed doors, and saw Pierce post up and score on Antoine
>on consecutive times up the floor.


Add Antoine to the list of players who is impressed by Pierce too.
                                                                - Mishra