John Thompson comments

[DJessen33@aol.com]

I'll have to say it was interesting listening to John Thompson do the Celts 
game on TBS. He made reference to that he had a good conservation with Pitino 
in the morning. He commented, after watching the first half, that he now sees 
the defensive problems that Rick was talking about. He talked at length about 
the point guard position. He said, with some inference to his Pitino 
conversation, that Boston needs a veteran point guard who can get the young 
players into what they need to be doing. After it sounded like he was really 
dogging Kenny, he added that he thinks Kenny is a player who COULD do the 
job. After Keeny launched a couple of quick threes, he said that even if he 
is open, Kenny shouldn't be sending the message to these young players of a 
shoot-first mentality. He said that Barros is the backup point guard but 
really is just a shooter and that is another of their point guard problems. 
He pointed out, like Tommy, that VP gets into trouble when he puts the ball 
on the floor. He also pointed out with mirth several times that Walker seemed 
to limp heavily when on defense but little affects when playing offense.  He 
defended Pitino often and said he must really be hard for Pitino to have a 
team that is so poor on defense when his forte has always been defense. This 
is a summation of what I heard although I have to admit I only watched half 
of the game switching back and forth between channels. In summation, it 
really sounded like both Pitino and Thompson felt that we were severely 
lacking at the point guard position...

DJessen33