Re: Pitino being tuned out... finallly

[damekmo@teleport.com]

>Pitino isn't blameless in all of this, but don't kid yourselves into
>thinking that a new coach is going to magically change the selfish,
>egotistical mindset of Pierce, Walker, Anderson, and the rest.

I'm beginning to think that either Pitino has absolutely no clue, and I
mean literally none, zero, nothing upstairs, or Mark is right. What the
hell did Ricky do when things started to fall apart? Did anybody see any
adjustments, did any of you see any player who knew what the plan was, what
they were going to do when they got the ball? How many open shots did the
Mavs get down the stretch? I can't believe that Ricky is that stupid,
so....I don't see why Pierce is a keeper through all of this, trade 'em
all. At this point, nobody is untradeable. That was a truly horrific
performance. And by the way, Dan's right when he says the starters run out
of gas and the bench does nothing. Yes Tony hit the boards, but nobody on
that bench can come in and help scoring. NONE of those losers. Pierce and
Walker get traded along with a couple stiffs on the bench. I'll say it
again, Odom right now is a better player than Pierce and he's going to
continue to get better. If you can get him, do it. Walker and Pierce go for
a couple real players and a few backups who have something resembling an
NBA game. It would be nice if one of them was big, but I'll take anyone to
get rid of McCarty, Battie, Fortson and the rest. (I think it's official at
this point, the Mercer trade was a miserable mistake.) VP and Anderson go
for a young big man and anything else including draft picks. And by the
way, I don't think it's so absurd to think that the Clips would trade
Olowakandi. How about Pierce and ? for Olowakandi and their first pick.
Walker for a couple players...something! It's time to start over. These
guys need to move on and actually hear a different voice screaming at them.
Maybe they'd listen.

Paul M.