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There was a celebration on the Madison Square Garden floor when the clock hit triple zeroes and St. John\u2019s had escaped with a victory Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Inside the Johnnies locker room, though, Rick Pitino took the glass half-empty approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey think I\u2019m going to jump up and down, say, \u2018What a great win.\u2019 It\u2019s just the opposite,\u201d he said after Kadary Richmond\u2019s jumper with three seconds left sent 15th-ranked St. John\u2019s to a heart-stopping 68-66 win over Providence. \u201cYou lose games when you don\u2019t pay attention to your job, and they didn\u2019t pay attention to their jobs. We\u2019re very fortunate and very pleased we won, but very disappointed with the way we played down the stretch \u2014 not offensively, but defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pitino spent most of his postgame news conference critical of the performance. The Red Storm (19-3, 10-1) held a 19-point lead with 8:32 left and coughed it up. Their fourth-ranked defense fell apart, undone by Providence\u2019s incredible 3-point shooting. The Friars hit six 3-point shots over the final 6:28, and were 12-for-28 from distance for the game. <\/p>\n
Even after Richmond\u2019s shot, Pitino didn\u2019t like the final possession defensively. Had Providence swung the ball, it could\u2019ve had an open shot, rather than Bensley Joseph\u2019s half-court prayer that didn\u2019t come close.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t mean to be overly disappointed. It\u2019s just little things that irk the hell out of me,\u201d he said. \u201cLike the last play, not picking up a guy running down the left sideline after we make a bucket, not running the right spacing on an offensive play, defensively [not backing] up below the pro 3-point line. Those things you can control. You can\u2019t control a missed free throw, you can\u2019t control a missed shot. But you can control those things, and we didn\u2019t control that, and that\u2019s the disappointing thing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pitino felt his players started worrying too much about missed shots and free throws, and it carried over to lackadaisical defense. <\/p>\n
They gave a quality 3-point shooting team open looks, and nearly paid for it with a loss.<\/p>\n
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It was out of character for this group. The Johnnies have frequently won this season with defense, even on days when they shot worse than they did on Saturday. <\/p>\n
But, as they have all year, the Red Storm found a way to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always better to learn from winning than learn from losing. So we learned a valuable lesson,\u201d Pitino said. \u201cThis helps you. If I go in there and smile, be happy, we\u2019re going to take an \u2018L\u2019 somewhere because we didn\u2019t do our job listening defensively. When you don\u2019t do your job defensively, you lose. We have to clean that up and we\u2019ll learn our lesson with a win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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