Re: Sick

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

Nevertheless, Pitino has difficulties matching up players, and his timing
isn't good either. We pay players to play certain positions, let them play
till we rid ourselves of them. It's not like we're in the running for the
playoffs. It's hard to believe a coach didn't get more out of this team.
I'm also shocked my 31 game win prediction is going to be close. 

At 12:54 PM 4/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Come on, it's not like Battie or Fortson have shown the ability-any
>ability-to be low post defenders. I think Pitino is just as sick as the rest
>of us of seeing Battie and Fortson fail so miserably defensively. How many
>points did Coleman and Mason have against Battie/Fortson/Walker/Pots? A lot.
>How many shots did they miss? Not many. And if Pitino EVER starts to rely on
>Pervis for anything, then that will be bad coaching. 
>
>You know, every time I see Anthony Mason play, I think he'd fit perfectly on
>this team. And I wouldn't care if he never scored a point.
>
>Peter D. wrote:
>
>I am so sick of hearing Pitino whine about his "interior defense." The
>man put a 6'5" player on Derrick Coleman and Anthony Mason in crunch
>time. Meanwhile, he's got Tony Battie and Danny Fortson, both of whom
>played less than 20 minutes and had just two fouls each, at his
>disposal. Not to mention 6'10" Pervis Ellison, who he's stashed on IR so
>he can give the legendary Walluh McDuh a DNP-CD. Earth to Rick: it's
>called bad coaching.
>
>Mark 
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