Re: Pitino Pissed Off At Walker: Jersey Red's Killer Column: Very Good Stuff Seriously

[Shailendra Mishra <shailendra_mishra@yahoo.com>]

It is hard to take these guys seriously, after all Holley went to
checkout Antoine in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. He wrote that
Antoine was in great shape and doing everything that was asked of him.
Now in a couple of weeks, everything has changed, Antoine has become a
lazy fat slug worthy of being traded.

Bulpett, JR etc need to take a break..guys the basketball season is
over, it will start again giving you all a chance to write again. I
also think Gaston should redo Pitino's contract and insert a clause
saying that he is not allowed to have a posse. His posse's are more
dangerous than Iverson's. They have  infilterated the media. All this
makes me yearn for ML Carr in his first year as coach who won 33 games
with inferior talent but atleast we didn't have to put up with all this
crap. - Mishra

--- damekmo@teleport.com wrote:
> This appears to be getting serious. Or am I wrong
> for taking JR seriously?
> In any case, a few thoughts. I don't think Pitino
> trades Walker before next
> season starts...or at least before training camp. I
> think it's insane not
> to give Walker a full off season to get into shape.
> His trade value isn't
> going to take a nosedive between now and the
> beginning of training camp.
> I'm a little confused however, because to be honest,
> I figured my cynical
> uncle would be all over a "Walker's a lazy fat slug"
> article after the
> Bulpett report. I mean...this is the kind of thing
> Uncle Peter lives for.
> So I'm not sure about all this trade talk.
> However....Let's pretend for a
> few seconds that JR has the inside track on this
> "problem," and Pitino's
> solution to it. This may be total wishful thinking
> on my part, but I don't
> think Wally Walker makes this trade. Wally traded
> four players for an aged
> Horace Grant because he believes he can actually
> compete now. Assuming
> Wally actually believes this, and the word "deluded"
> comes to mind
> considering the Sonics didn't even make the playoffs
> last year, who does he
> have to play center on that team? How does he plan
> to compete against teams
> like LA, the Spurs, and the Blazers without as much
> size as possible up
> front? Now, off the top of my head, I don't know who
> his sf is, because I'm
> not sure they're going to re-sign Schrempf...he is a
> free agent, yes? I've
> heard Wally interviewed and he continues to drive
> around the block when
> talking about Schrempf...but my impression is that
> Detlef's breaking down
> fast and Wally has no intention of keeping him
> unless it's on the cheap. So
> perhaps he and Detlef work something out. However,
> Wally's also said that
> the trade gives the Sonics cap room to sign a free
> agent. A sf,
> perhaps?...although I'm not sure how much $$$$$ he
> actually has. I don't
> know what Wally Walker was doing making that trade
> for Grant, but I can
> only believe it means that he's decided to make Gary
> Payton happy and delay
> rebuilding, which means he continues to fill in the
> blanks around Baker and
> Payton. I think you can forget Payton going
> anywhere. And of course, Wally
> didn't trade for Grant only to ship him to Boston
> for Walker?...Right? Now
> concerning JR's blurb about Vince Carter:
> 
> >      Don't forget, they (Toronto) also have the
> second-best player in
> >basketball in Vince Carter.
> 
> While I was never willing to believe Carter to be
> second best in the
> league, I was, until this morning willing to go with
> him as the best young
> player at his position. Now that it seems JR also
> believes this...Dear
> God!...What was I thinking!
> 
> Paul M.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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