On the Madison Square Garden floor, the clock hit the triple zero, and there was a celebration when St. Jong's victory on Saturday afternoon.
However, inside the Johnny Locker Room, Rick Pitino took a half -air approach.
“I think they jump up and down, saying,” What a wonderful victory. ” After a three-second remaining Kadry Richmond's jumper sending the 15th place St. Johns to the 68-66 victory, he said. “If you don't pay attention to your job, you lose the game, they didn't pay attention to their job. We were very lucky and won, but we were very disappointed with the way we went down. It is not aggressive, but defensive.
PITINO spent most of the press conference after the game. Redstorm (19-3, 10-1) coughed at 8:32 on the left and coughed. Their fourth place defense was canceled by the incredible three -point shooting of Providance and falling apart. The monk hit six three -point shots at the last 6:28 and was 28 to 12 from the distance of the game.
Even after Richmond's shot, Pitino did not defend the final ownership. If Providence was shaking the ball, he might have had an open shot, not the prayer of Benzly Joseph's half coat.
“I don't intend to be too disappointed. It's a small thing that is bothering me,” he said. “As in the last play, I don't pick up a man running on the left side of the left side after making a bucket. [not backing] Under the professional 3 point line. What you can control. You cannot control the missed free throw. You cannot control the shot you missed. But you can control them, we didn't control it, and it's a shame for me. “
PITINO felt that he had begun to worry too much about his shots and free throws that his players missed, and was inherited by unstable defense.
They gave three high -quality three -point shooting teams to open looks and paid for almost any losses.
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This group had no personality. Johnny frequently won defense this season.
But as they have all year round, Redstorm has found a way to win.
“It's always better to learn from winning than to learn from losing, so I learned valuable lessons,” Pitino said. “This will help you. If I go there and smile, and when I get happy, we will not listen and work, so I will take” L “somewhere. If you do not work defensive, you will lose. We must clean it, and we will learn our lessons with victory. “
