Rick Pitino threw his players under the bus. Rick took names. Look at the Pitino comments below.
At the UBS, Shaheen out coached Naismith Hall of Famer Rick Pitino at every moment.
Pitino called the Seton Hall players tough, while lambasting his own team’s lack of it.
“We just lack toughness...we don’t move our feet on defense,” he said. “It’s really all the toughness things where we give up big leads.”
Pitino called this a “lost season” due to recruiting.
“We kind of lost this season with the way we recruited,” he said. “We recruited the antithesis of the way I coach. It’s a good group, they try hard, but they’re just not very tough.”
He specifically praised Pirates point guard Kadary Richmond and the toughness of the Pirates.
“Every one of his kids are really, really tough,” he said of Pirates coach Shaheen Holloway, whose team is tied for third in the Big East after being picked to finish ninth in the 11-team league. “Every one of them....Their staff did very good job, we did not do a good job [in the portal].”
Pitino has said he targeted offensive-oriented players in the portal, but is now paying the price on defense. The team has blown halftime leads in its last four games.
“It’s not the job,” he said. “You could be at Missouri and recruit slow players. Believe me, it’s not St. John’s. We had to put together a team at the last second. We will never, ever, do that again.”
He compared St. John’s to DePaul and Georgetown, two teams that are a combined 1-27 in the BIg East this year.
“I’ve been disappointed the entire year,” he said. “I’m sure Ed Cooley is disappointed. I’m sure the DePaul coach is disappointed. When you lose, everybody’s disappointed.”
To make matters worse, several former St. John’s players are excelling elsewhere, including AJ Storr, who is averaging 16.5 points at Wisconsin while shooting 43% from deep.
“I tried to get AJ Storr, I tried to get others,” Pitino said. “There were circumstances that had to be done over, that were out of my control. We had to bite the bullet and clean certain things out, academically as well as athletically. It’s what had to be done to start over.
At the UBS, Shaheen out coached Naismith Hall of Famer Rick Pitino at every moment.
Pitino called the Seton Hall players tough, while lambasting his own team’s lack of it.
“We just lack toughness...we don’t move our feet on defense,” he said. “It’s really all the toughness things where we give up big leads.”
Pitino called this a “lost season” due to recruiting.
“We kind of lost this season with the way we recruited,” he said. “We recruited the antithesis of the way I coach. It’s a good group, they try hard, but they’re just not very tough.”
He specifically praised Pirates point guard Kadary Richmond and the toughness of the Pirates.
“Every one of his kids are really, really tough,” he said of Pirates coach Shaheen Holloway, whose team is tied for third in the Big East after being picked to finish ninth in the 11-team league. “Every one of them....Their staff did very good job, we did not do a good job [in the portal].”
Pitino has said he targeted offensive-oriented players in the portal, but is now paying the price on defense. The team has blown halftime leads in its last four games.
“It’s not the job,” he said. “You could be at Missouri and recruit slow players. Believe me, it’s not St. John’s. We had to put together a team at the last second. We will never, ever, do that again.”
He compared St. John’s to DePaul and Georgetown, two teams that are a combined 1-27 in the BIg East this year.
“I’ve been disappointed the entire year,” he said. “I’m sure Ed Cooley is disappointed. I’m sure the DePaul coach is disappointed. When you lose, everybody’s disappointed.”
To make matters worse, several former St. John’s players are excelling elsewhere, including AJ Storr, who is averaging 16.5 points at Wisconsin while shooting 43% from deep.
“I tried to get AJ Storr, I tried to get others,” Pitino said. “There were circumstances that had to be done over, that were out of my control. We had to bite the bullet and clean certain things out, academically as well as athletically. It’s what had to be done to start over.
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