Re: more blaming the coach

[Kestutis.Kveraga@Dartmouth.EDU (Kestutis Kveraga)]

--- You wrote:
>From: Kestas <Kestutis.Kveraga@Dartmouth.EDU>

>>Alex, please. I don't think anyone is stupid enough to base his or her 
>>opinion of Pitino on this one shot .
>
>No, they wouldn't.  But that's not what Alex said, either.  He said that 
>SOME people were criticizing Pitino for losing the game with his coaching at 
>the end.  

No, he said "many". Read his original post. 

>This is indisputable since we had a poster on this list saying 
>that if only he had called another timeout, they would have won.  

One poster is not "many", unless that poster summarizes or otherwise represents the opinion of many, which I don't think he or she did. But it doesn't really matter to me. I know I didn't blame Pitino for this.

>I think 
>Alex's point is, and I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong, that Pitino 
>get's the blame even when he's done nothing to warrant it.  And, before Paul 
>M chimes in, you could say the same for Antoine.  How surprising it's the 
>two guys who are making so much money.  My explanation is that it's 
>jealousy, plain and simple.

I think you're misplacing the cause of this phenomenon. A much better explanation is that the two people who get blamed the most are, respectively, in charge of day-to-day operations of the franchise, and the "franchise" player and captain of the team - and who, by most accounts, happen to be doing a subpar job. People like Kenny are also making quite a bit of dough out of this scam (in fact, as much as Pitino, $50M), but hardly anyone has blamed Kenny for the team's freefall this year. 


>Now, Kestas, how about answering the direct question that Alex put to you.  
>Who are you talking about when you mention poeple that would believe Pitino 
>if he "spit on them and told them it was raining"?  

I answered this morning. It's been on the list since 11:10 am.


>This is such a joke.  I 
>keep hearing from the media about the "free ride" Pitino has had since he 
>took over, but that's a myth.  WEEI has been critical from the start.  I've 
>heard from many quarters right from the start that he would not succeed in 
>the pro game.  And every move he's made has met with at least some 
>criticism.  I'm not saying he's been treated unfairly, but he certainly has 
>not had a "free ride".

I don't know what goes on at WEEI, because I don't listen to it. I never said he's had a free ride from everyone, only something approaching that from a small group of hard-core supporters on this list. You just read it that way. The problem arises from the fact that people tend to "read" what they want or expect to read  in a post, and they tend to generalize a lot from what they just "read". I'm as guilty of it as anyone. It gives rise to these misconstructions of what people actually are saying in their posts; alas, that's just the way we're made. That's why we have these long exchanges trying to disentagle who said what to whom and what they meant when they said it.