The content isn’t literally the same, but the point both coaches made are. They wanted fans to understand they’re frustrated with their teams fight/toughness. Does it even matter if Hurley thought his team was a contender during the off season?
Would be wild if little Pitino acts like a minor league system and sends Donovan Dent to him this year to fill the Kadari void. The kid is really good and only a junior.
They're 24-4, a few teams in front of them lost. Where would you like them to be ranked?
That’s how you want to see it. Pitino came into this year with the lone pressure of making the tourney. Hurley was going for a three peat following the most dominant two year run maybe ever. If Pitino was writing checks, Danny was using a black Amex. Better yet, he he season isn’t over. St.
And you can also rank teams based on how well they show - and StJ looks really good right now. Their 4 combined losses by 7 points. Also teams after about 6 in the AP poll are pretty interchangeable, those in the top 6 will be given benefit of the doubt given lot's of quality wins. Also a very new roster this year, took Pitino a bit to get them conditioned up and clicking. I've never seen Kadari this fit.
If St John’s underachieves in the tournament I’d love to see if the people who get on Hurley for his “mess” of a season despite winning the last 2 titles in runaway fashion will have that same energy for Slick Rick.
National media has literally written this team off. I’m not sure there is much of an expectation for any tourney noise out of this team. Which is a nice position to play out of honestly. Kinda why I like the idea of flaming out of the BE tourney, resting and going all in on one last run.
