Early Outlook

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

Yes, without a doubt the short term team building effort by Pitino hasn't
done well. We all know it takes time to develop a team to play as a team.
If Battie can continue to make the effort, along with Stith, the team will
be competitive this season. Not playoff calibre but a better team than last
season fundamentally, and that's not saying much. I don't see Anderson
making the team any better at this point. With the soft early schedule we
should be in better shape in the standings, but we're not. I am happy with
some of the teams success to date but not optimistic for the balance of the
season. We are seeing a pinhole at the end of the tunnel.

Dan

At 09:52 AM 12/2/00 EST, you wrote:
>We didn't get robbed by the refs. However, we didn't get the hometown calls. 
>It seems the refs only will give you hometown calls when visiting team isn't 
>clearly superior on paper....Do we really have a long term hope with the
lack 
>of defense from Walker and Pierce? Battie is showing that he is a real 
>player. So your long term guys are Walker, Pierce and Battie. But I just 
>can't see these three together long term because of the lack of defense...
It 
>appears that it is going to be a throw away year. I wish that Pitino could 
>give Moiso some time in that case. Moiso might show some incentive if he 
>actually got to play a little. The big guys take longer to develop...Billups 
>has seemed to find his niche. He was always a solid defensive player and 
>could take the blow and make the shot. He could always shoot the free
throws. 
>But he is now shooting from the floor better. He also isn't playing point 
>guard. As we look back on the trade and the Pitino years, it appears that
the 
>goal wasn't long term but short term. We always had to get good really fast 
>to keep the Pitino legacy in place. We have made some decisions (Anderson, 
>VP) because of that. Now when we are still where we were before those
trades, 
>it looks like we should have looking long term...
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