Re: It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

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

Pitino is best known for bringing in sets of players that don't compliment
themselves to the team.  Tommy H., for a few years now can't understand
Rikky's sub patterns.

Dan

At 07:48 AM 10/22/00 EDT, you wrote:
><A HREF="http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/itsalright.html">Bob Dylan: It's 
>Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)</A>
>Darkness at the break of noon
>Shadows even the silver spoon
>The handmade blade, the child's balloon
>Eclipses both the sun and moon
>To understand you know too soon
>There is no sense in trying.
>            *************************
>    From elation to dejection. 
>    Chris Herren started last night. He was in complete control of the 
>offense. Passes everywhere, Vitaly, Williams, Pierce and Walker all were 
>getting the ball in their spots and were all running and passing. The team 
>played as well as we have ever seen them riding out to a 14 point 1 st. 
>quarter lead, until coach? Pitino, as he so often did last season, subbed
the 
>most dysfunctional lineup we could ever hope to see on the floor together. 
>Myskinis, Moiso, McCarty, Carr and Elliot. Soon the lead was gone and as the 
>starters made their way back in the lineup, they really couldn't get the
same 
>magic going again. Then came the real bad news, late in the second quarter, 
>Herren stepped back on someone's foot and rolled his ankle. He couldn't put 
>any pressure on his foot and was helped to the dressing room, never to 
>return. Sprained ankle they said. 
>    Kenny immediately came in and played brilliantly. Washington was up by 
>one and the lead went to seven by half time. Anderson played well through
the 
>second quarter, but coach? left him in the whole game (except for 1 1/2 
>minutes late in the 4th) and he was beat. Washington kept running Strickland 
>and Whitney at him and they wore him out. Coach? didn't sub much at all in 
>the second half and the whole team grew weary, Pierce went out with a smash 
>to the ribs and Eric Williams banged his knee, so perhaps he didn't have a 
>lot of options, letting Washington back in the game to give us the final 
>scare/score.
>    The good news. Marc Blount can play. He is not much of a rebounder, but 
>he can score around the basket and plays defense; blocking shots and denying 
>his man, very gracefully, without drawing a lot of fouls. Vitaly, after a 
>good start, fueled by Herren's passing, became a foul magnet without another 
>basket. 
>    Chris Herren made the game fun. He gave the team his enthusiasm and 
>willingness to play unselfishly, that was contagious even to Anderson and 
>Walker.     Let's hope this is not a serious injury.
>
>