----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 11:22
AM
Subject: Re: It's not Pitino's
fault
We really should do what we can to get Walker to
Chicago for Brand. They are the only team that can make this move that I am
aware of. If we can get Crawford and Bryce Drew I would be very happy. Brand
is an old school 4 and would be a perfect fit.
Then we get hopefully get rid of Anderson and
Battie or Potapenko and get a Szczerbiak & Peeler, Jerome
Williams & John Wallace in Detroit, , James Posey, Wes Person, Darvin Ham,
Cedric Henderson, Bobby Sura, Gugliotta players that are down on the
depth charts.
Hell, I love Paul but Pierce to get Rahim or
Bibby I could probably live with that.
Although limited I have liked what I have seen
from Jamal Tinsley.
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 7:30
AM
Subject: It's not Pitino's fault
Bottom line Pitino's system works. The problem
here is that he is surrounded by a bunch of over-payed stiffs. What can
Pitino do if Walker and Anderson WON'T PLAY DEFENSE? Pitino's biggest
mistakes were that he was counting on drafting Tim Duncan and he assumed
that players like Walker and Anderson would play up to their potential.
Walker is having a pretty good year, but he will never reach his potential
if he doesn't start to think about the team first.
If Pitino does leave, the team may turn around
for a month or a bit longer, just to prove that the problem was Pitino, and
not them. In the long run, these stiffs will continue to show up with their
attitudes, and big undeserving wallets ready to accept a loss.
When Pitino inherited the team, he had one
player who belonged in the NBA (Walker), and two draft picks in a somewhat
weak and unpredicatable draft, and no players to trade. He has brought
players in who SHOULD be winning more games than they are (this team should
be in the top two of it's division). Now we have four players of high
talent, as well as three draft picks next year. If Walker and Anderson
weren't such stiffs, Pierce and Battie would have motivated veteran players
to look up to. But since they are stiffs, Pierce and Battie are learning to
be stiffs also. So Pitino has made oves that should have made this team a
playoff team, it's not his fault that he believed in Walker and Anderson.
When he is gone I wish that he would publicly rip Anderson and Walker, but
he has too much class to do that.
If I were Gaston, I would tell Pitino to trade
Walker and Anderson for whatever he could get, but if there were no takers,
I would tell him to put them on the injured list and bring in some players
who will listen. I don't mind losing a gave if the players hustle, I can't
stand losing and watching a bunch of talented stiffs walk around the
court.
John