“Somebody said, ‘How would you want to die?’ ” Pitino told The Post. “I said, ‘Calling a timeout on the court.’ ”
ALBANY — Rick Pitino has never wanted to be anywhere else but on a basketball court, whether it is putting his 13th-seeded Iona Gaels through the paces at MVP Arena on a Thursday at noon before a Friday West Region March Madness showdown with UConn, or on any court anywhere against anyone with a basketball team he gets to teach how to win and learns to love.“I said, ‘Calling a timeout on the court.
For Pitino, there is no calling timeout on Passion, Hunger, Drive. If anyone is Forever Young, even at 70, it is Pitino. I ask him: How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? “He has the tactics and the player development,” Hurley told The Post. “Some coaches can make players better players skill-wise, and some are just really good tactically. Not many are tactical and help people become better basketball players.”
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