Re: Early trouble in Pitino's place

["Greg Odegaard" <gmodegaa@longvred.rmc.com>]

The RP system will not work without near 100% support.  If these details
are true, how big of a problem do we have?  Can the captains step up and
keep the team positive (especially AW having played for RP before)?

Does anyway believe this, take it as seriously as me, and have ideas on the
critical matter.  

Greg

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> From: Phe Meas <pmeas@channel1.com>
> To: celtics@igtc.COM
> Subject: Early trouble in Pitino's place
> Date: Monday, November 10, 1997 1:55 PM
> 
> http://CNNSI.com/basketball/nba/news/1997/11/07/macmullen_insider/
>                 Posted: Fri November 7, 1997 at 2:18 PM ET
> 
>                 The Celtics are trapping,
>                 pressing, pushing the ball,
>                 shooting threes -- and losing.
>                 Blood-thirsty Boston fans are
>                 already getting impatient, and
>                 coach Rick Pitino is begging
>                 them to back off a bit.
> 
>                 His players, meanwhile, wish they could tell Pitino to
> show
>                 some patience of his own.
> 
>                 Sources say the team is upset at how rookie point guard
>                 Chauncey Billups, who has been the subject of trade
>                 discussions with New Jersey, Philadelphia and Denver,
> has
>                 been treated. Billups, who would be a junior in college
> had he
>                 stayed in school, has struggled mightily trying to
> adjust to
>                 Pitino's system, and did not play in the second half of
> a loss
>                 to Miami on Wednesday.
> 
>                 Boston general manager Chris Wallace
>                 insists the Celtics haven't given up on
>                 Billups, even as league sources report
>                 trade discussions are continuing. In the
>                 meantime, teammates say, both Billups'
>                 confidence and his morale are shot.
> 
>                 And Billups is not the only one.
> 
>                 Sources say that when Boston traded
>                 forward Tony Massenburg just before
>                 the start of the season, he ran down the
>                 hallway cheering and pumping his fist,
>                 thrilled to be leaving for the expansion
>                 Vancouver Grizzlies. As one unhappy
>                 Celtic told me, "I wish I could go with
>                 him."
>