It’s been a superb lengthy whereas since St. John’s has embraced this totally the weather of being the town’s basketball crew. Consider it: They’re a ferocious defensive crew, one which will get after you from opening bounce to remaining buzzer.
They’re relentless: No deficit appears too nice, and so they have misplaced their three video games this yr by a complete of 5 factors, two of them due to the help of a no-call on the buzzer and deplorable clock administration on the scorer’s desk. You wish to beat them, you’d higher play the complete 40.
There’s this, too. Al McGuire, SJU ’51, as soon as stated this about New York Metropolis guards, of which he was a proud fraternity brother: “If a guy isn’t afraid to shoot a ball in the wind on the playground by the beach, he’s not going to flinch if you ask him to take the last shot of the game indoors in a gym.”
And let’s face it: If you watch these Johnnies shoot, particularly from lengthy vary, it generally seems like they’ve in some way imported the winds that used to seize the McGuire brothers’ set pictures again at their previous playground at 108th Road in Rockaway Seaside.
