Re: Fellowship of the miserable

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

My complaints with Pitino are with his substitution patterns and allotment
of minutes.
My complaints concern use of personel.


At 01:52 PM 11/27/99 EST, you wrote:
>If you listen to some of the more negative people on the list, you'd
>think that the Celtics somehow have a winning record despite having
>inferior personnel acquired by an incompetent GM directed by a
>clueless coach. It's a lot easier to complain about things that go
>wrong in hindsight than to actually do them well.
>
>We have people criticizing Pitino for trades he doesn't make, or for
>not making trades that we don't even know are possible. It's easy to
>look good as an armchair GM because you don't have to be realistic at
>all. It's easy to rip Pitino for not acquiring a couple of true centersMy
who can not only block shots but play strong man-to-man defense and
>score inside so that we can compete with the Spurs.
>
>We also have a lot of second-guessing of Pitino's coaching, which is
>fine, but remember that second-guessing is a lot easier than actually
>doing it. It's easy to say, the Celtics should pass the ball well, 
>take good shots, and play good man-to-man defense but getting the
>players to do that well is another matter. They're not exactly pawns
>on a chessboard that do the coach's bidding.
>
>Alex
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