Re: more blaming the coach

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

Alex, you are a brave man :-)

Cecil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 3:30 PM
Subject: more blaming the coach


> I think I knew the instant Carter threw in the buzzer-beater that Pitino
> would take the blame for it in many people's minds. I mean, Carter 
> gets forced into a turnaround fallaway three-pointer in a situation 
> when two points would win. It's not like he got an easy look here.
> People ask, why doesn't he get double-teamed? Well, do you want to
> give up an open two pointer to someone else or a turnaround fallaway
> three-pointer to Carter? Who else did they have on the floor, Dell
> Curry, Doug Christie? These guys can shoot. You just know that if
> Pitino double teamed Carter, someone would get an open 15 footer
> and everyone would be screaming, "How could someone get that wide
> open with the game on the line?" 
> 
> I guess that Pat Riley can't coach worth a damn either. I mean, what
> is he doing allowing Walker to beat him with a three-point bank shot
> at the buzzer? Doesn't he know that the Celtics are going to Walker
> in that situation? And all those coaches that Bird burned with
> ridiculous degree of difficulty buzzer beaters, they all can't
> coach too!
> 
> You know, Carter misses that low-percentage shot and we could be
> talking about how we own Toronto, how Carter shot 10-23 in another
> subpar performance. We outrebounded the Raptors, outshot them,
> got to the free throw line more, but we shot 58% from the free
> throw line, and lost to a playoff bound team on a very tough shot.
> Does everything have to be Pitino's fault? Can we just give credit
> to Carter for hitting a tough shot, feel a bit bad about Potapenko
> choking on all those free throws, and move on?
> 
> Alex
>