It hasn’t been all roses and sunshine for St. John’s.
The Vice TV docu-series following the seventh-ranked Johnnies — “Pitino: Red Storm Rising” — is providing a behind-the-scenes take a look at their magical season, and supplied a peek right into a contentious locker room second early within the yr.
Late in a Jan. 4 win over Butler at Carnesecca Area, sophomore guard Simeon Wilcher tried a windmill dunk within the last seconds when the end result was in hand.
It drew coach Rick Pitino’s ire.
Vice offered The Submit with an unique clip forward of the third episode on Tuesday evening wherein gamers are bickering and assistant coach Taliek Brown went off on the staff.
“Yo, shut the f–k up, man. Shut the f–k up. What the f–k is wrong with ya?” Brown, the previous Connecticut star, mentioned.
“All ya mother-f–kers. I’m tired of all ya motherf–kers. Shut the f–k up. What the f–k is wrong with ya. We here for one f–king goal, that’s to win. We all here for one another. We don’t got time for that bulls–t.”
Pitino publicly criticized Wilcher on the time and apologized to Butler. He thought of suspending the gifted guard, however opted in opposition to it.
Pitino mentioned then he requested the staff, and it felt it wasn’t worthy of a suspension.
There have been folks yelling at Wilcher to attain from behind the St. John’s bench and he tried the dunk after initially wanting like he was simply going to dribble out the clock.
In St. John’s subsequent recreation, Wilcher got here by means of with 15 factors and three assists in a formidable highway victory at Xavier. St. John’s hast misplaced simply as soon as since then, at Villanova.
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Final week, Wilcher mentioned he has solely seen clips of the present, and wasn’t fearful about reliving the second.
“It’s in the past, I don’t really care about it,” he mentioned.
