Re: Weight for it....

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

I suspect that the confusion about Antoine's weight is
the same as last year, when word got out that he was
"forty pounds overweight."  They meant forty pounds
over his ideal, slimmed-down target weight, not his
actual playing weight.  Antoine probably weighs now
what he did at the end of last year, which is still
15-20 pounds more than the "Scottie Pippin body"
Pitino would like to see.

--- Jim Meninno <jim_meninno@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Theresa Lee <tjoyce@MIT.EDU>
> >There are many more focal points beyond Antoine.
> 
> >From: damekmo@teleport.com
> >Pitino says their execution at the end of the game
> was the best he's seen 
> >in two years. Walker's and Pierce's numbers were
> excellent. Their passing 
> >is much improved over last year. Progress
> everywhere. It's only game 3 of 
> >the preseason. Antoine's lost 10 pounds and he'll
> lose ten more if he needs 
> >to by the time the season opens. Progress....it's
> all good so far.
> 
> I agree with all of this, and I do expect
> improvement this year.  It's just 
> worrying me that everyone else seems to get it and
> has worked their butts of 
> this summer except, apparently, the Celtics captain.
>  If he's always going 
> to be the type of player who gives everything on the
> court, but doesn't work 
> very hard off it (this was how I compared him to
> Barkley, not the size of 
> his butt), does that have any implications for
> future success?   I don't 
> know.  I really think this uncharacteristic
> pessimism of mine is due to a 
> Red Sox hangover, but I really didn't expect Antoine
> to be 20 lbs overweight 
> when he was specifically told not to be.  And, I
> also didn't think Pitino 
> would cover it up ("everyone came into camp in
> phenominal shape").  I guess 
> that's where the talk started of stripping Antoine
> of his captaincy, and I'm 
> not sure that's a bad idea, but who else do you
> choose?
> 
> Jim
> 
>
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