Rick Pitino - Head Coach at St John’s University!!!

[Larry Wright]

Have to give Pitino a lot of credit. Guy who rose to fame with Billy Donovan and Providence shooting threes and had the Bomb Squad on the Knicks is 18-3 and 9-1 in BE winning with D and without any reliable shooters. Not many coaches could do that.

 

[paultzman]

 

[mattc]

Norm won that many?

 

[Marillac2]

Have to give Pitino a lot of credit. Guy who rose to fame with Billy Donovan and Providence shooting threes and had the Bomb Squad on the Knicks is 18-3 and 9-1 in BE winning with D and without any reliable shooters. Not many coaches could do that.

Some of his best teams struggled from three. The Louisville national championship team was 214th in the country in 3 pt %. They were 274th the year before. Offensive rebounds, steals, assists, and blocks always strong with his teams, though.

 

[19854ever]

Norm won that many?

The greatest coach in the history of SJU according to old fan 61 and BT

 

[L J S A]

Norm won that many?

Didn't our media guide at the time credit him with wins while he was an assistant under a coach who actually did win?

 

[mjmaherjr]

Didn't our media guide at the time credit him with wins while he was an assistant under a coach who actually did win?

in hindsight that queens college record was oh man a harbinger of shite to come

Jesus now I'm getting flashback anger that I thought years of therapy solved

 

[classof2010]

Norm was a nice man but he couldn’t coach. They gave him a lot of time.

 

[SJUNC]

Norm won that many?

N/M

 

[rlogazino]

Currently on KenPom, St Johns is 66th on offense and 4th on defensive efficiency which is good for 15th overall. I was curious to see if Pitino ever had a team similar to this gap in offense and defense and what the results were. In 2015 (two years after the national championship team), Louisville was 66th on offense and 4th on defense which was 17th overall. He went 24-7 in the regular season, lost the first game of the ACC tournament to UNC (team goes to the championship the next year and loses to Nova on the buzzer beater from Jenkins and then wins the year after that). In the NCAA tournament, they were given a 4 seed and he went to the Elite Eight and lost to Michigan State in OT.

This team is capable of all that! Let’s continue this great season!

 

[MugCostanza]

Don’t think Rick is gonna get his wish here