He is simply not an NBA coach.
Flashback him trying to hug Pierce at his last game coaching....rewatch it, players didn't like / respect him.
Better ? why bring Pitino up when we are going to the finals?
Pitino was so deeply buried in my unconscious, I would have needed psychoanalysis to dig him up, or some random thread about him - how out of whack is that - its been 21 long years, we've been through ML, King Rick, Obie Kanobie, Brett Szabo, Thomas Hamilton, Greg Minor, Pervis Never in Service, Dee for Three, Ding Dong Day, Barros, Joe "gone in 60 seconds" Forte, Gin Baker, Dino, Montross, Kederick Green (yeah that's on purpose!), Scala...oh wait he's still here..., Dominique, Jay Humphries, you name it, we've been there, we've suffered through lottery balls gone bad, Tommy losing his mind, Gorman turning gray, the sad passing of Red, the destruction of the Garden, the introduction of mascots and dancers and "who wants a t shirt?!" and here we are in the NBA Finals...the goshdarned NBA finals... savor it and foget all the bad... the time is now... Thursday marks the beginning of the rest of our lives, and we are all here to enjoy the ride, breath, relax, enjoy