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catmandoo
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posted 09-20-2014 08:46 PM
Pitino used the platform to defend Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has come under attack for allegedly gaining a recruiting advantage as the coach of Team USA.
“I don’t know that he does or he doesn’t, I really don’t, but if he does, he deserves it,” Pitino told SNY.tv after his clinic. “He’s earned it because of all the time spent coaching these guys. He’s coaching pros, he’s not coaching college guys. Billy [Donovan] and Jay [Wright] and those guys are coaching the younger guys, so I don’t know what advantage he has, if he does or doesn’t. If he does, I think he’s earned it. I don’t think it matters. It’s like when people used to say, I used to work the Five Star Camp, they said I had an advantage. I went there as a camper, I worked there as a counselor for 15 years, so I probably did have an advantage, but I earned that advantage.”
It seems that all of Coach K’s high-profile colleagues are closing ranks publicly to defend him, as both Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, an assistant on Team USA, and Kentucky coach John Calipari, whom Boeheim said privately complained about Coach K’s extra access, have publicly defended Coach K.
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posted 09-21-2014 07:57 AM
As usual, I totally disagree with anything that comes out of Rick Pitino's mouth. He is now in the ACC so I guess he figures he needs to defend the coaches in his new conference.
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catmandoo
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posted 09-21-2014 09:29 AM
Ray, Pitino is a ass always has been always will be.
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posted 09-21-2014 10:06 AM
I liked to watch his teams play at UK but did not care for him as an individual. He should have won the 97 National Championship game against Arizona and would have had he called of his famous press and played them a half court game. He has very little flexibility in his way of playing basketball, press and shoot three point shots is about it. Create havoc with the press and get easy baskets. I never considered him a good half court coach, never will.
I would not trade one coach Cal for five coach Pitino's.
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