Re: interim coach

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

Tommy Heinsohn obsolete? You must be kidding. He forgot more about Pro
Basketball than Pitino knows. Were only talking about the balance of the
season while Pitino finds a new rock to hide under. Bird knew he had a 1-2
year shot with that bunch and that was a long shot. I don't believe he has
the patience to coach a green team. He belongs in management.

Dan

At 07:46 PM 12/15/00 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/15/2000 3:37:44 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>jim.shane@alexstewart.com writes:
>
>> How about Tommy Heinsohn as interim coach while they wait til next year.
 It
>>  couldn't hurt for the boys to get a dose of a multiple world champion 
>player
>>  and coach for a while.  It would also probably lead to hiring a Celtic
as a
>>  permanent replacement for next year.  Comments ?
>
>     I imagine many had thought about this, especially with Pitino playing 
>videos of Tommy's comments to the team.  But I have some concerns.  First, 
>Tommy may be obsolete, a coach who simply cannot relate to today's 
>players/corporate egos.  Didn't Bird quit in part for that reason?  And I 
>have often quoted McHale's comments about how winning is not high on the
list 
>of priorities for today's players.  Second, after he coached the Cs, I don't 
>recall ever hearing anything about Tommy being offered other jobs.  That 
>gives me some concern, if no other team in the league was interested in
him.  
>Why not?  Now maybe he did get some offers and rejected them, in which case 
>please ignore point #2.  
>      Other than that, though, why not?
>
>