Re: patience and stability

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

Sadly, this same team will not compete for even the 8th playoff spot. We
need at least, a couple bench players that can give some consistency.


At 01:24 PM 4/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Do you disagree with him, Tom? Do you actually think that this team,
>withthis talent, is ever going to compete for anthing other than 8th
>playoffspot? I think he's made some horrible mistakes acquiring players and
>he'd abe a fool to come back with the same team. Red couldn't win with
>thatbench. Pitino's been a horrible gm. Perhaps the solution is to keep him
>onthe court and out of the front office. But I just don't believe he
>winsanything but the 8th spot at best with this current group. Anybody
>youbring in to replace Ricky is going to have to make some major changes.
>Morelater. I have to go to work.
>
>You know, a lot of Pitino's moves have been defendable. Chauncey for Kenny,
>even with Kenny as weak as he is, seems like an upgrade. Battie for Knight
>was a slam dunk before we signed Batgirl to his ridiculous contract. Vitaly
>was an upgrade over DeClercq. But Pitino's mistakes are made in haste.
>Toronto traded Chauncey to the Nuggets for a first-round draft pick that, I
>believe, became Vince Carter. He signed Battie before he had to when the
>free  agent maket is going to dry up after the top three or four players.
>Vitaly is better than AD, but is he so much better that we wouldn't rather
>have Andre Miller? Do you think the Cavs would trade Vitaly straight-up for
>Miller? The Celtics would. These deals aren't terrible, but they're not as
>good as they could have been.
>
>The Mercer trade was Pitino's one true disaster, but we won't get into that
>again.
>
>I've been a proponent of blowing this team up for some time now, and it
>sounds like Pitino has come to the same conclusion. That's good. My concern
>is that he'll again make mistakes in his haste to turn this team into a
>playoff contender right away. Alex made a great  point about some possible
>deals-Brown and Mashburn, Davis and ??-but he's right in questioning whether
>or not those deals really help our future. If Pitino is going to do this,
>he's going to have to commit to it all the way. But does he have the
>patience to do that? He hasn't shown it yet.
>
>Mark 
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