Re: Pitino pushing the right buttons

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

Can someone explain to me how this team can win 7 of our last 8 and there is
still concern about the former coach?

Who cares about Pitino's motivation skills?  We have the 8th playoff spot
RIGHT NOW!!  We are getting healthy.  We are playing better defense and our
2 scorers are scoring.  Yet, this discussion is about Pitino?  I don't get
it.

Not knocking Jamey or anyone else but I would think there would be more
pertinent things to discuss right now than the former coach.  Like Dorine
says, he's gone.

Cecil





----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamey Rallis" <rallis@vgi.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: Pitino pushing the right buttons


>
> one of today's posts got me thinking.  What players did Pitino motivate,
> teach, or in some way make them play better?
>
> >From comments, quotes, or playing ability, I would go with these lists.
> I'm sure I'm forgetting lots of people, so feel free to fill them in.
>
> Motivated:  Marc Jackson, Tony Battie, Vitaly, McCarty, Stith?, Herren?
>
> Unmotivated, bad comments, played poorly because their heads were messed
> up: Walker, Williams, Billups, Mercer, Massenburg, Mills, Anderson, Brown
> (always looking at the bench), Ollie, Fortson, Fox (we had a deal),
> Wesley, Knight
>
> no opinion, unclear, leaning against: Blount, Moiso, Carr, Shinsplints,
> Overton, the other big stiff, all the other point guards that haven't bad
> mouthed him.
>
> I just got the impression over the last couple years that Pitino is not
> nearly the master motivator that he himself sells as his image.
>
> Am I way off, or are these lists representative?  I'm pretty sure I'm
> missing a few of the motivated list.  Pitino wasn't THAT bad.  Or was he?
>
> -Jamey
>