Re: Cavs loss

[David A Wickerham <aw623@freenet.buffalo.edu>]

Kenny was not shooting well, but he was not taking bad shots.  Two of his
misses came on a blown layup (in traffic), after which he got the rebound
and missed a putback.  He only took a handful of outside dhots, but he
seems to be front rimming them.  I thought I remembered Pitino
substituting Brown in at least once during the last 2 minutes in an
"oiffense-defense" situation.  Not sure why he didn't continue the
pattern, but it might have been the flow of the game.

There are a lot of reasons to be unhappy with KA, but he hasn't played as
badly as most people seem to think.  Brown cannot play 30 minutes per
night without breaking down, and we shouldn't get too high on Herren based
on one pre-season game.  Remember, Issel traded him and took on a bad
contract because he didn't think Chrissie could crack the Van Exel - Pack
rotation.  I hope Herren does well, but I'm not prepared to designate him
our savior until he's had a chance to work into the system.

On another note, you can't fault Pitino for his player evaluation.  Alvin
Williams just dropped 20 points in back to back efforts.

****dave

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, OzerskyJA wrote:

> The moral I'm drawing from this (I didn't see the game) is that
> if Pierce or Antoine is having an off night, someone else has to 
> step up -- maybe Eric Williams, maybe Kenny, maybe Stith
> or Vitaly or Chris Carr.  But what I'm curious is about is to what
> extent these two disastrous first quarters have to do with Kenny 
> starting.  Pitino says nobody is movign to the right spots.  Is Kenny
> killing us yet again with his floor "leadership?"  Certainly his 3-10
> shooting
> must have something to do with us scoring in around 90 points in both games.
> 
> Josh Ozersky	
> Marketing Communications Specialist 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	David Darlington [SMTP:davied99@netzero.net]
> > Sent:	Saturday, November 04, 2000 11:10 PM
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> > Subject:	tough loss
> > 
> > 
> > Tough loss.  Pierce was really off tonight, hitting 2-11.  Walker's
> > percentages are not pretty, but he kept them in the game (8-22, 25pts,
> > 9rbs).  nice to see V get 12pts (although only 4 boards compared to
> > Battie's
> > 8)
> > 
> > How long before Stith replaces Williams in the starting lineup?
> > 
> > -d
> > 
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