Re: New coach speculation?

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

There is a small window of time for a coach to build a team before patience
runs out. Pitino had his chance. How many picks and trades?? He's been
stuck in neutral and in fact hasn't used present personnel to it's fullest
value. While he tinkers we languish in the basement. What to do? Don't
know, but something has to ignite the juices again and soon. Usually new
personnel can camouflage a sinking ship for awhile.


At 09:29 AM 4/3/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I think Pitino's gone, and I'm disappointed about that. You bring in a new
>guy and you start completely from scratch, and who's to say the new guy has
>the answers? Pitino has seen this team for three years now and it seems to
>me he should be the most qualified person to design a strategy for the
>future. He knows, for instance, that we need interior defense at the PF
>and/or C spots. He knows that we need a bigger, defensive-minded point
>guard. He knows what he's going to get from Toine and Pierce. Paul's right -
>we need a plan for long-term success.
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>But, Pitino probably is gone. So, who's next? There will be a push for Bird
>to come back, but I don't see it happening with the animosity between he and
>Gaston. Cowens? Maybe, but does he really get you excited? Lenny Wilkens?
>Seems to be fine with veteran teams, but we're not one. Mike Fratello? I
>hope not. You keep hearing that Red's ties to Mike Jarvis might lure him to
>Boston, but he's a college coach. If we're considering college coaches, I'll
>throw a name out there: Rick Majerus. The guy has an NBA background and
>still follows the NBA. In fact, he's made no secret of the fact that he'd
>eventually like to return to the NBA in the right situation. Is it Boston? I
>don't know. I just don't see any more attractive candidates out there than
>the guy we have on the sideline now.
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>Mark 
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