If St. John’s win the title

[The_Answer1313]

Yeah, I looked at their offensive numbers in Kenpom and their offense is ranked worse than our defense....that's can't be good. They have the lowest ranked offense (75th) in the top 35 teams on Kenpom. I've always been a Pitino fan (secret...I didn't even dislike him that much when he was at UL) because he got to UK when I was in 7th grade....prime fandom as a kid.

Yeah.......very one sided. ELITE defense. Very good.

But.......as we've seen in one and done tournaments.........the one sided teams also tend to be the ones that get bounced earlier than their seed would suggest they do.

They did shoot it well vs Uconn the other day tho.

It was funny listening to Pitino during the in game interview. He knows they can't shoot. But he's like "well we just need to not air ball it so we can get into our offense" lol. Because it's true. They are very good at offensive rebounding. They also take good care of the ball on offense. So there are still some things they do well on offense.

 

[The_Answer1313]

Yeah, I looked at their offensive numbers in Kenpom and their offense is ranked worse than our defense....that's can't be good. They have the lowest ranked offense (75th) in the top 35 teams on Kenpom. I've always been a Pitino fan (secret...I didn't even dislike him that much when he was at UL) because he got to UK when I was in 7th grade....prime fandom as a kid.

Same. Pitino is how I got into UK bball.

My cousin when I was little took me to MSG during one of those holiday tournaments. We were going to see St Johns but the game before that UK was playing. I fell in love with the style of play and been a UK fan ever since

 

[TM2013]

Sign me up for St Johns winning the title and then Ricky P retiring to become the greatest assistant coach ever for Pope.

 

[TopCatCal]

Would you be happy, disappointed or could care less?

If we get beat out of the tournament. Then I will be pulling 100% for coach Pitino to win the NCAA championship at his 3rd different school.

 

[bthaunert]

Same. Pitino is how I got into UK bball.

My cousin when I was little took me to MSG during one of those holiday tournaments. We were going to see St Johns but the game before that UK was playing. I fell in love with the style of play and been a UK fan ever since

My first Pitino game was when UK played UNC at Freedom Hall in his first season. Tarheels ended up winning 121-110. UNC was up 17 at half and was pulling away in the 2nd half and had all of their starters out. UK went on a huge run and Dean pointed to the bench and all 5 starters got up to come into the game. The crowd went nuts that they had to put their starters back in.

Kentucky shot 48 3 pointers that game.

 

[CatsnRoses]

Amazing Pitino was banished to Greece and Iona for years when any major conference program could've hired him and pretty much assured themselves of historic success.

Guess they didn't want the blue checks on X to write mean articles about them for a week, though. Too big of a price to pay for an ATG coach.