Rick Pitino Stuns Fans with Thunder defense

As one of the largest coaches in the history of basketball at the faculty, Rick Pitino is all that video. Although it is usually not a fan of how the NBA teams defend, Pitino offered one of its biggest compliments Oklahoma City Thunder.

One day after Thunder beaten NBA Finals with a game 5 wins over Minnesot Timbervolves, Pitino praised the defense of the team suppression On K, Previous Twitter. Coach St. Jovana 72-year, said defending Marka Daignealta is the only one who has ever shown any of his teams during film sessions in his four decade career.

“It is interesting, in my 40+ years I have never shown the recordings in my NBA defense teams,” “Pitino tweeted.” Offensive sets and individual moves, but never defense. Until this season. We watched the thumb at least 3K per week. Their switching, loading for help and rotations are great. And they are still young!

Pitino tweeted his praise after Oklahoma City held Minnesota to only 94 points in his closely victory. Timbervolves is on average an average of 113.6 points per game, but only reached that sign once in five games against lightning.

Thunder held teams to 107.3 points per game in the regular season, the third best in the league. Their aggressive defense of switching forced the most turnaround. They first ranked the margin in evaluation even though they allowed the least opposing color points, opponent’s points and the lowest percentage opponent.

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Showing that his team clips of the defense thunder apparently helped Pitino Turn St. John in Prime Minister Defensive Team In college basketball. The red storm succeeded at the end of the Court in 2024. until 2025. year, relying on his defense to encourage them to the state championship.

St. John is only allowed 65.8 points per game in 2024-2025, 25. Best in the country. She exceeded the opponents on average 12.7 points per game, ninth-best margins. Like Thunder, Red Storm was powered by forcing the turnaround, causing opponents to cough the ball in the ninth highest rate in the division I.

Pitin’s detachment included likes from defensive Aces of Kadari Richmond, RJ Luis Jr., Teeth Ejiohor and Deivon Smith. St. John had an average of six players over a look at the game, headed by Richmond 2.0 of 2.0 per competition.