Re: McDonough: Keep Pitino, C's Bad, Not Improving For A Long While

[Way Of The Ray <wayray@ix.netcom.com>]

Attack? I thought it was a decent critique of Pitino's skills and life in
today's NBA.  If you are in competition for a title, there
are free agents out there -- like Derrick Anderson -- who will
bypass the big bucks -- at least for a year -- and sign with you.
I'm more in agreement with your comments on the draft as I
think there could be two or three franchise types available
in the upcoming draft, and the C's should have a chance at acquiring
one of them.
Ray

OzerskyJA wrote:

> what crap.  This is no smarter a commentary nor any more likely to
> happen than the kids on the ESPN boards who say that the next Celtic
> dynasty is around the corner.  As far as free agents go, money talks and
> bullshit walks, and when we can pay more than other teams instead of
> less, we will get a better caliber of free agents.  As for the draft, no man
> can say what is going to happen there.  BTW, Cousy would never attack
> the team like this anonymously, and I can't think of any other Celtic of his
> stature who would either.
>
> Josh Ozersky
> Marketing Communications Specialist
> Corning Museum of Glass
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Way Of The Ray [SMTP:wayray@ix.netcom.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 10:23 AM
> > To:   Celtics
> > Subject:      McDonough: Keep Pitino, C's Bad, Not Improving For A Long
> > While
> >
> > (Who was McDonough talking to? Sounds like Bob Cousy maybe.)
> >
> > http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/260/sports/In_praise_of_ailing_Armstrong
> > +.shtml
> >
> > Search for Green pastures
> >
> >
> > One of the Celtics' greatest players ever had this perspective on the
> > team's upcoming season and the future of Rick Pitino:
> >
> >
> > ''Rick has not done the greatest job in the world as a general manager.
> > He's made poor moves and hasn't done a good job evaluating talent. But
> > he's a good coach. He can X and O with any coach in the league, and is
> > better in this department than almost all of them. If the season goes
> > bad, which it easily could, it wouldn't make any sense to fire him,
> > because they couldn't bring in anyone who could coach the team better.
> >
> >
> > ''What we have to understand around here, and try to deal with, is the
> > Celtic mystique is a thing of the past. It's over. These kids nowadays
> > don't give a damn about those 16 [championship] flags or what went on
> > here in the past. All these kids think about is making money and leading
> > a comfortable life. If they can play for a winner along the way, great.
> > But the other two are more important. This is why the Celtics will
> > never, ever get a shot at a great player in free agency. A Grant Hill or
> > a Tim Duncan would never play here. They'll go to an Orlando or a Miami
> > or a Los Angeles. Someplace where it's warm and nice to live and have a
> > good time. The only way the Celtics are ever going to get back to the
> > top is to have a terrible team and luck out with a guy like Duncan in
> > the draft. That didn't happen for them a few years ago and it isn't
> > going to happen to them for a long time. This situation they are in
> > right now isn't going away for a long time. So if [Paul] Gaston thinks
> > he is going to make things better by getting rid of Pitino, he's wrong.
> > He's going to have to pay him all of that money and he won't end up with
> > anyone nearly as good.''
> >
> >
> > Pitino has four years left on a contract that averages $7 million a
> > year.
> >
> >