RE: Roster???

[kai_brunnen_g@ix.netcom.com]

Hello. Let me introduce myself. I am Chris Wallace and I start
shaking uncontrollably everytime Moiso's name is mentioned.
Ray

> ** Original Subject: RE: Roster???
> ** Original Sender: Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org>
> ** Original Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:38:17 -0700

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> 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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