He blamed his assistants for bringing in the wrong type of players. He isn't owning up to anything, he's trying to publicly absolve himself from blame.
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Rick Pitino blaming everything but himself for first-year St. John’s failure is terrible look
Rick Pitino lamented St. John’s facilities, he bemoaned his team’s lack of toughness, he suggested that his assistants had flunked him by failing to import players whose talents were perfect matche…
You lose the NY Post, you lose NYers....
Exactly, he picked them and he's coaching them. If he needs someone to blame he should look in the mirror. Narcissists never take responsibility. They blame others for their own mistakes. Slick Rick thought he would pimp walk his way back into the Big East and start taking names. He ate up all the prodigal son returns media hype and even talked some junk. Now that he's failing to live up to the hype, he's embarrassed and publicly blaming the players lack of physical attributes who he himself hand picked.
Hurley regularly rips his players to shreds during the game. He was ripping the defense apart ("wet tissue" comment) to the media like a month ago, and has no problem saying that we were playing like trash in halftime and post-game comments. But it works, because Hurley built the culture and expectations that allows that type of thing to work
Alleyne was gone before the portal opened up so dont think what you're saying is accurate. Even if Hurley had made it known that we would be looking for another shooting guard in the portal, chances are it would be a Joey C or Timberlake level player. Alleyne could have been starting for us.
