RE: Mercer's shot?

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

On Friday, March 19, 1999 8:10 AM, damekmo@teleport.com 
[SMTP:damekmo@teleport.com] wrote:
> >Mercer is lost and is beginning to show his failings,...
>
> So...suddenly he starts taking threes? 1-4? He actually shot four last
> night? Anybody want to guess why?

Maybe he has been reading the list and hearing some of us ride his ass for 
lack of shooting range & consistency ?  I don't understand him. Today in 
the first quarter he was scoring at will, then disappeared the rest of the 
way.

Our second string has nobody that can put the ball in the hoop. Minor, 
McCarty, Garnett, Bowen, even Barros, all suck big time.   I don't see how 
Jeff Sheppard can be worse than these guys.  The new york guards killed us, 
even Charlie Ward not known for his scoring.  Sprewell scored at will.

We need a Jerry Sichting, Chris Ford or Scott Wedman type off the bench 
badly.


The presence of the opposing shooting
> guard perhaps? Perhaps Pitino spoke to him about his range? Maybe he's
> trying anything he can to get out of his slump? Perhaps those are the 
only
> open shots he's able to get? Did he actually go 3-11 in the second half
> last night? As much as I've moaned and whined about his lack of range and
> the problems I think it creates for the offense...I really feel bad for 
the
> kid. His shot really has gone south pretty quickly. Let's hope he snaps 
out
> of it, because if the past is any indication, Kenny's shot should return 
to
> earth with a clank soon, and you certainly don't want your starting
> backcourt stinking it up on the offense every night. "At the scorers 
table,
> coming in for Mercer is...Bruce Bowen."
>
> Paul M.
>
>