Re: Don't stop with Pitino

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Unrest may be surfacing on the team with players because they need
supervision, discipline. 25-3 point shots, never, never. How can a team
learn to play and run plays with this type of offense. No one will improve
with this type of ball playing. Sure there will be a few games where the
long ones go in but far between losses. What ever the case, Pitino has to
take the heat. He built the team, regardless whether he never had much to
work with, he built it. Look to his draft and trade choices. Aren't many
teams firing players, the coaches go and rightfully so. There expendable.

Dan

At 08:44 AM 11/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>This team showed all the signs last night of a group that has quit on its
>coach. Pierce and Walker, our two captains, were the first to jump ship.
>It's clear they've decided to do their own thing and ignore Pitino; after
>all, why listen to your coach when you can shoot 30 percent and commit 11
>turnovers on your own?
>
>Pitino is gone after the season. That's fine. But I refuse to lay all of
>this at his feet. Some of it, sure, but these players just disgust me. I
>have no stomach for quitters, and that's what this group is. We all worried
>this might happen, ever since Pitino basically declared himself a lame duck
>after last season. He set himself up for this. I just never thought it would
>happen so soon.
>
>So, Pitino is leaving. Fine, but hold the door on your way out Rick. Let's
>clean house. Pierce, Walker, you name it. New coach, new GM, new players.
>Build with the three draft picks in the summer and position ourselves to be
>players in the free agent market. Fill the roster with low-paid,
>high-character guys and fill in the stars when you get the chance. Right now
>we have too many high-paid, low-character types.
>
>I'm just tired of caring about this team more than the players. At least
>Pitino cares. Too bad he hitched his star to the wrong wagon. I feel for any
>coach whose career is in the hands of these quitters.
>
>Mark
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