Fwd: Sports (NBA) - Pitino gives Beantown an earful after loss - 3/2/00

["Cecil Wright" <cecilw45@hotmail.com>]

Here are Pitino's comments after the game.

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>PITINO FRUSTRATED IN POST-GAME COMMENTS
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>(AP) - Rick Pitino's frustrations over a last-second loss to
>Toronto came out in his postgame comments Wednesday night when he
>criticized Boston fans for expecting too much from his young
>team. The Celtics blew a 20-point, third-quarter lead to the
>Dallas Mavericks on Monday and lost 96-94 on Wednesday night on
>Vince Carter's buzzer-beating 3-pointer to drop to 23-34 for the
>year. Asked what he said to his team after the latest loss,
>Pitino said, "Well, we've played hard the whole year. We're going
>to be positive every day. You are the people being negative --
>you and the fans. Larry Bird is not walking through that door,
>fans. Kevin McHale is not walking through that door, and Robert
>Parish is not walking through that door," Pitino said of the Big
>Three that won three NBA titles in the 1980s. "... The only thing
>we can do is work hard, and all this negativity that's in this
>town sucks."
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>*** For the full story, see
>http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564679980-86b
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