Re: With Fifi I and II, How Can The Celtics Lose...

[Alexander Wang <awang@MIT.EDU>]

There's some truth in this post, and a lot of gratuitous garbage.

>The Good News:  Knowing that his team is awful on the road
>and with a tendency to party the night before games, Pitino
>has instituted a 1:00 A.M.  curfew for back-to-back games.
>
>The Bad News: Like most of Il Duce's moves, this one has
>very little substance to it. As Peter May points out in the
>Boston Globe, only 17 nights this season meet the curfew
>criteria, and in most cases, the Celtics won't be in their
>hotel rooms by 1:00 A.M. any ways.

Well, you can usually count on Peter May to misrepresent the facts in order
to make his targets look bad. What does the "only 17 nights" argument have
to do with it? Those 17 games were the ones that we lost almost all of last
year. And what is May saying, that if they aren't going to back by 1:00
A.M. anyway, that they should just skip the idea of a curfew? "Oh, hey,
we're not going to make it in until 1:15 anyway, so let's skip the curfew
and let them stay out until 4"? May's argument makes no sense... as usual.
Can't believe that someone's quoting this argument, it was bad enough the
first time.

>The Bad News: The C's wasted the eleventh pick on Jerome
>Moiso, who, lacks direction, desire, fire, and intensity.  It doesn't
>shock me one bit, that Pitino has basically written him off for this
>season.
>
>And you might as well write off Moiso's entire Celtics career, because
>with Pitino likely gone after this season, the new GM and
>Coach aren't going to be too amiable to taking on any of Pitino's
>projects.  Especially one most suited for a Pitino system, that
>will most likely be junked under new management.
>
>And toss in the fact that Alexander and Claxton -- two players
>that most definitely filled Celtics needs more than Moiso -- are
>wowing them respectively in Dallas and Philly.  Then you
>understand what a colossal blunder Moiso was.

Am I the only one who's tired of this? Players aren't drafted by their
expected production over their first summer league and training camp, and
they shouldn't be judged that way either. What is important is their
contribution over a complete NBA career. It's way too early to be writing
off Moiso. I'm sure that the people who were bashing Pitino for coveting
Nowitzki are distancing themselves from their original opinion now that
they've turned out to be completely wrong. Shows the danger of judging
based on a single season. This evaluation based on summer leagues and
training camps is that much more ridiculous.

Alex