RE: Bulpett on Walker and Pitino

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

that's what D'ellsandro says to in TSN.  I agree with 
the BSG that this column is the best one on the subject
to date.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Berry, Mark  S [SMTP:berrym@BATTELLE.ORG]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:50 PM
> To:	'celtics@igtc.com'
> Subject:	Re: Bulpett on Walker and Pitino
> 
> Can't let this go without addressing the Pitino-Walker issue. Pitino asked
> Toine to bulk up to play power forward. He didn't. He asked him to slim
> down
> to play small forward, he didn't. He asked him to post up more and drift
> to
> the perimeter less. He didn't. He asked him to think pass before shot. He
> didn't.
> 
> To compound all this, Toine clearly is the leader of the team. The other
> players look to him and feed off of him. When he ignores everything the
> coach says and gets away with it (THAT was Pitino's big mistake), then
> they
> follow suit.
> 
> Pitino hitched his wagon to the wrong star.
> 
> Mark