Re: Pitino subsititution pattern - the problem?

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

Yeah, it's called tanking by the coach. Pitino needs the lottery big time
to re-establish his so called genius of basketball. He has been made to
look like an idiot amongst his peers and now the Sports pages are picking
him apart. If he wants to be "chief, cook and bottle washer" he must get
criticism for failure. I have never seen a team as unprepared for defense
as this one. Witness his playing of McCarty for the 3rd period as to who he
should play.

At 09:19 PM 2/19/00 +0800, you wrote:
>from the celtics ng on warriors loss.
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>What doesn't show in the box score:  McCarty played the entire fucking
>third period.  All of it.  Meanwhile, Fortson is sitting on the bench.
>This is after the Cs have gotten the Warriors in potential foul trouble
>during the first half, of course.  Let me repeat:  Fortson, the man who
>got to the foul line 19 times this game, sat on the bench all of the
>third period.
>
>I'll watch Potapenko play any time, though, seriously.  He's a total
>bull of a man.  I really think that Pitino's defensive rotations are
>hampering him; when he settles down in the key and guards it -- well,
>I'll just say it was a pleasure watching Dampier bounce off him like
>a child.
>
>Other thoughts... the offense sucks, and I'm pretty sure that all those
>plays I saw that start with the center taking the ball at the top of
>the three point line weren't random ad libs.  They need to figure out
>how to pass the ball inside; live by the outside game, die by Pierce and
>
>Anderson going 2 for 10 and 2 for 11.
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