Re: Pitino tells Players To Be Careful

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

Wow, what great advice from the one and only Rikky Pitino. Watch where you
go, be very careful. Make's one wonder how these dopes got this far in
life. The pacifier was dispatched much too soon. Maybe Rikky could take
them home at nite and tuck them in after some porridge and a tale.
Evidently the alien like McCarty doesn't have a clue yet either. I have a
feeling we haven't heard the end of Celtic frolicking. How about a team
nanny, instead of cheerleaders.

Dan

>Boston Herald
>Pitino tells Celts: Play safely
>by Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
>Thursday, September 28, 2000
>
>Boston Celtics forward Walter McCarty, who was upstairs at the Buzz Club
>when teammate Paul Pierce was stabbed seven times the other night, said
>yesterday coach Rick Pitino has warned the hoopsters to be ``very
>careful'' when they're out on the town.
>
>``He wants us to realize that the situation that we are in, people are
>going try to do certain things,'' said McCarty, who claims he has no
>idea about the motive behind the stabbing in the Stuart Street club.
>``But we're just looking to have a good time. We can't sit in the house.
>
>``This just shouldn't have happened in the first place,'' he said.
>``Paul's a good guy, never any trouble. But we'd hate to have to stay
>in. We're all 26, 23, 24, so we're going to go out.''
>
>Pierce, 22, is recovering at New England Medical Center from stab
>wounds, one of which punctured his lung and another which penetrated
>seven inches into his back.
>
>Last night, three associates of local rappers Made Men - one of whom is
>the group's bodyguard - began turning themselves in to police to answer
>to assault charges.
>
>McCarty said he knows ``a couple'' of the guys, including leader Raymond
>``Ray Dog'' Scott. He even chatted him up at the Buzz on Sunday night.
>
>``They're pretty good guys,'' he said. ``We have no problems.''
>
>But what about the Made Men's posse?
>
>``It's like in the NBA when you travel in these big groups, some guys
>don't know how to act and it's always the star in the group that gets
>blamed for it,'' he said. ``The player has no control over what the
>people around them do.''
>
>Then maybe it's time for the posses to be benched.
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