Re: The Holley Lama Takes The Celtic Players To Task

["I am. . . Anonymous" <ktoreed@yahoo.com>]

--- Way Of The Ray <wayray@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Getting rid of some baggage
> 
> 
> By Michael Holley, Globe Staff, Globe Columnist,
> 12/22/2000
> 
> 
> A few thoughts I found while unpacking the duffel
> bag I borrowed from Ty
> Law's multitalented cousin:
> 
> 
> Rick Pitino has certainly made his personnel
> mistakes, but I don't
> understand how anyone could call for his job after
> watching the Celtics
> absorb back-to-back blowout losses to Chicago and
> Sacramento. In the
> NBA, teams don't defend as much as they follow
> scripts. You know Reggie
> Miller is going to run you into several picks, that
> Rasheed Wallace is
> going to become a squatter on the baseline, and that
> Ron Mercer is going
> to operate on the wings, waving his arms so he can
> get the ball and
> shoot a 17-footer.
> 
> 
> All you have to do is anticipate. Because that is
> the case, a team
> should never be blown out by the Bulls. Especially
> at home. Ego and
> pride are enough to keep even the sorriest teams
> close. When
> professional teams quit on their coaches, the
> popular spin is that the
> leader is somehow inferior for letting it happen. I
> think it's just the
> opposite. If the Celtics have quit on Pitino and
> chose to display their
> indifference on the court, they are younger and more
> naive than most of
> us thought.
> 
> 
> Why? Because Pitino is definitely leaving, no matter
> what they do. The
> players seem to be under the Old West illusion that
> there is only room
> for one of them in this town and, come sundown, one
> man will go (Pitino)
> and all problems will be solved. Uh-uh. They are
> linked now. When Pitino
> leaves, a new management team will come in and torch
> what he has built.
> So Celtics players can privately join the brassy
> ''Pitino Must Go''
> symphony if they want, but all they are doing is
> calling for their own
> dismissals as well.
> 
> 
> If Pitino leaves and Larry Bird takes over, the
> leading candidates for
> the head job will be Quinn Buckner, Rick Carlisle,
> Danny Ainge, and Ty
> Law's cousin.
> 
> (I agree with what Holley said, and it points out
> another reason,
> why drafting Jerome Moiso was a mistake. He's
> Pitino's
> project....)
> 


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