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Message: [QUOTE="mussels, post: 5190508, member: 5722"] Good article in the Athletic on exactly that. In our game they went “9 of 26 shots at the rim, 4 of 21 3-pointers, and an absurd 13 of 18 shots between the paint and 3-point line.“ It wasn’t accidental. “Pitino’s team at St. John’s, just like his teams at Louisville and Kentucky, and at Iona and in Greece, and with the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics, spent early workouts going through individual sessions overseen by the head coach. Such one-on-ones are grueling to watch, let alone to endure. Fifteen shots in 30 seconds. Or timed attempts darting around stations scattered all over the court. Over and over. Pitino, the whole time, stands, hands behind his back, shouting directions until the player in front of him stands atop a pool of sweat. All along, every shot is counted and added to a tally. Those numbers, in part, determine how Pitino later decides who can shoot from where and when in what games. Sound strategy. He’s won everywhere. But then came this preseason at St. John’s. Every day ended with an autopsy revealing a fatal flaw. St. John’s couldn’t shoot. “The lowest metrics I’ve seen from my team, ever,” Pitino recently told me. Pitino and his staff could have very well taken the Sisyphean route. More reps. More shots. More 3s until the numbers changed. Instead, a far simpler decision. Shoot closer.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6123009/2025/02/08/rick-pitino-st-johns-college-basketball-2/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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