Re: Roster???

[Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

Bos3332@AOL.com wrote:

> I think since we can't make the playoffs now that we should give Mosio
> as
> much playing time as we can. Also give Herren and Palacio as much
> playing
> time as we can. I know it is only like 3 games left but just some
> experience
> would be good. What do you guys think?

I actually think/hope Boston has done the right job of getting through
to Moiso that he needs to work very hard on the techniques and mental
aspects of the game or else his career (1.5 ppg) could be very nearly
over, no matter what his original draft position was and no matter how
naturally suited he was for headless chicken basketball.

I think keeping him on the pine for the rest of the way might further
reinforce this. He's a complete mystery, but if I were Obie I would feel
this is a guy that needs to be made to feel a bit ashamed of himself. So
don't give him any minutes he hasn't earned. He's got this Caribbean
"don't worry, be happy" attitude mixed in with a lazy-ass Parisian civil
servent mindset (wait, that's me too!?). Maybe that's harsh or even
totally false. Some say he's underconfident. I say "whatever". At best,
he is a player who lacks hunger or any clear sense of what is at stake.

There is a lot at stake for frog boy. He's not some teenager or even of
an college underclassman age. In fact he's only 7 months younger than
Paul Pierce, a team captain. When you have Moiso's level of inertia, you
really need to take some drastic measures to light a fire under him.

I'm all for positive reinforcement, but I feel Poultrino went too far
comparing Moiso's talent to Paul Pierce's even later into training camp
when it was clear he was headed toward the end of the bench. When you
consider the magnitude of difference between the two not just in style
of play but in temperament, work ethic, productivity and innate
awareness on the court at the college level, this comments really seem
to have done a disservice to the kid and was just plain stupid in many
ways. I just want to ask Poultrino, "what wereyathinkin!?"

My own conclusion is let's forget about positive reinforcement. It
didn't work. Drop the whole approach and cut to the chase like Vince
Lombardi or Bill Parcells would have. Let the guy sit and reflect for 48
minutes on what will be season-ending 1.5 ppg. I want frog boy to just
sit there in his dry uniform and reflect on how Walter McCarty outworked
him and beat him out for those late-season scrap minutes. Great learning
curve there frog boy!  The coaching staff needs to make it perfectly
clear he's "on the outside looking in" as far as making the 12-man
roster next fall (even if its a bluff and even though he's talented).
What's with this touchie-feelie, "Paul Pierce talent" crap?

To the degree that most of us fans at some time played around at the
fringe of organized amateur basketball, nothing pisses me off more than
turning on a game and watching a wasted talent or a half-ass, wussy,
French poodle attitude in the NBA.

If you've got the talent to get into the NBA, well you damn well better
work as hard and care as much as we all would have. How hard is it to
work extra on something we all love to do? That's why I'm busting his
chops. Who let this frog out? Obie and Pond scum should let the kid
finally know what's on the line. This is America, pal, and as far as
immigrant work ethic, he's giving a lot of people a bad name. In fact,
I'd say bring him out to Fenway and have Nomo and Pedro take turns
beaning him in the ass. Those guys went over there to compete. He might
learn something.

Joe

p.s. On the subject of the Flakers and Shaq, one thing you've gotta give
him credit for he coined both the incredible phrase "monkey outbreak
system" and the nickname Paul "the [expletive deleted] Truth" Pierce.
Both have entered into our Celts list lexicon. That's something or
ruther.

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