Re: Pitino lost Pacer game

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

A slump you say? Never heard of a 3 year slump. Mucho laughter. If you hate
when the team loses you must be in a bad mood most of the time then. Let's
see 82 minus 47 losses, get lot's of Tylenol. This team under this coach
finds a new way to lose every loss. This team hasn't learned any basketball
since the Pitino float came to town. Look for him and Gore in the
unemployment line. 

Dan

At 02:53 PM 12/9/00 -1000, you wrote:
>>From: Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>
>>
>>Why would Pitino make the decisions he makes? For the
>>lottery...................
>
>Are you suggesting that Pitino is tanking the games?  If you are, 
>that's just ridiculous.
>
>>Funny when other's and myself were critical of
>>the team's leadership we were ridiculed. The evidence was ripe long ago.
>
>What evidence?  You mean all the games you _don't_ watch?  This is a 
>lot like that theory that frogs come from mud.  There's mud, and then 
>there's frogs, so one must have come from the other.  Pitino's got 
>weaknesses (coaching issues, system issues, GM issues) and the team 
>is in a slump.  Must be Pitino's fault.  Plus, don't sell yourself 
>short, Dan, I think you were ridiculed for much more than being 
>critical of the leadership (sounds like a phrase you'd hear in 
>Congress, doesn't it?)
>
>I hate when the teams loses; both because they lost and also because 
>it provides seeming justification for all the knee-jerk negativity 
>around here.  Is there someone on the list who can honestly tell me 
>that they didn't expect us to have a .421 winning percentage at some 
>point?  That we would have injuries?  That the defense would give up 
>layups?  That we would lose games that were very winnable?    That 
>Pitino would continue to scream and yell on the sidelines?  That, 
>sometimes, the players would just not seem to "get it"?  Who's being 
>unrealistic here?
>
>It's like what I'm saying about the "Pitino Watch" folks: they 
>constantly predict that Pitino will leave, always picking out some 
>little thing to point to and interpret and say "See? He's leaving 
>because there are rumors that he wants to coach at Podunk State" or 
>whatever.  One day, they're bound to be right.  Even a stopped watch 
>is right twice a day.  You can be critical all you like, but what 
>real purpose does it serve?  (I've got a prediction that's going to 
>be 100% on the money: Pitino will stay until he leaves.  I'm so proud 
>of myself.)  If certain conditions aren't met at the end of the 
>season, I'll call for Pitino's resignation, too, but I'm under no 
>illusions that that will matter.
>
>Bill, Celtibus "tirdicana"
>
>P.S. Having said all that, the team really needs to pick up the 
>defense in a big way.  Not going to win games without it.  They're 
>actually making (slow) progress offensively.  Walker's playing well, 
>Pierce pretty well, Stith fairly solid, and Battie is actually 
>semi-consistent.  Not bad.  Now, if they could only keep the other 
>team from scoring more points then the C's... .
>-- 
>wm. l. bird
>mailto:birdw@aloha.net
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