Re: Great Paul Pierce Mag Cover!!

["Michael J.King Sr." <kingpin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:16 PM 11/20/2002 -0500, Lance Jacobson wrote:
> Mike, who is this guy,
He is a good writer IMO. I have read and enjoyed his take in the past.

> and why does he think he's talking about Jerry
> Stackhouse?  Pierce never passes to Ben Wallace; although it's slightly more
> likely than him passing to Chris Wallace.
Uh I believe the Scout was using Ben Wallace as an example of his World 
team teammates.



> Also, please realize that Obie's never going to publicly decry his players.
> He learned the hard way from Pitino that it comes back to haunt you.  But no
> article that's trying to refute Paul's reputation gains any credibility by
> quoting Pierce's mom or his coach.  It's just weak journalism.
'Sigh' Come on Lance. Face it if an article or a persons take doesn't fit 
your view/opinion of PP you dismiss it.  Isn't it possible that Obies take 
of PP is how he actually feels?   Obie in my observations will just deflect 
answers that might sound negative regarding his players and in the Dime 
article he didn't try to dodge anything and expounded on PP favorably.  I 
choose to believe that he was being genuine and obviously you do not. Just 
curious did you read the whole article or just the couple of paragraphs 
that I posted??   I will try to get the whole article scanned by tomorrow 
and I will then post it in its entirety for the whole lists 
perusal.  Lastly I didn't post it to "refute"  his reputation.  BTW  this 
supposed reputation  came out of the blue after nearly 4 years of pro 
participation.  It was mostly innuendo from teammates that didn't have the 
stones to go on the record.  To me that is weak. Yup then a few reporters 
run with the locker room comments and voile  instant credibility  is given 
to comments from a couple of disgruntled teammates without them even having 
to be men and comment on the record.  No i don't think PP is wartless but 
he is far from the antichrist that you seem to view him.  I wasn't trying 
to  change your mind regarding Pierce as clearly that ain't going to happen 
but to show you that some people in the know may view PP in a different light.
 I posted the url so folks could see the incredible cover photo and the 
photos showing the scars from the heinous stabbing. I'm curious to peoples 
take on his tattoos  and the other photos
http://www.dimemag.com/index.asp

Anywho these are my thoughts and as 
always  YMMV!!  Later.Mike