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Mike Rice
Providence, RI — Rick Peteno vs. John Calipari, 5. It’s on it.
The two coaches who are decorated and the animated will be in the middle, when Pinino is the second top of St. John’s number 2 against Calipare and the No.
respect each other? of course.
a friendship? It’s not so fast.
“I definitely have a lot of respect for him, but we’re not really close. Everyone tried to talk like that” on Friday, the day after St. John’s 15-dominated omahai domined Omahai before winning the second half to win 30 and the game with Arkansas.
“I don’t know much about him, except that he’s a great basketball coach. At a very young age, I really knew him well… but it has passed for years and I don’t think we were once in our lives.
But they were on the margins as the head of the opposing college coach 23 times in general, and Calipari, which holds 13-10 edges.
On Saturday’s fifth match between Peteroi, 72 and 66, the second-time two lead coaches in competition history — One after Mike Krisiezevsky from Duck and Tom Izoo, Michigan. Pidino won the first two wins, Calipare in his last two games.
“He’s in the second part of his new book, we’re on the first part,” Calipare said, referring to the second season of Pidino in St. John and the first time in Arkansas, which took seventh place in Kansas on Thursday. “That’s both of us writing another story and we could go back here.
St. John has the number one defence in his country and has won nine consecutive wins. Arkansas (21-13) played one of the best games this season, which was led by Jonas Aydo on 22 points.
Both coaches were reflected on Friday on the story of how to communicate initially — in the five-star basketball camp when Calipare was caliphate and Petino was consultant. Calipari said he looked at Pitino at that time, and then he remembers that Peyno returns as speaker of parliament when he became an advisor.
Pidino recalled how Calipari advocates to build his first main task in Umass, Alma Mater, in 1988. He admitted that Caliparai had never imagined that the program that once lost to the top of the table, which included a last four games in 1996, when the miniopark of the minespark.
“We are both Italian. We both love the game. I think the similarities will end there very well.
Rick Pitino on John Calipari
Calipari’s time in Memphis (2000-09) and then Kentucky (2009-24) coincided with Peterno in Louisville (2001-17), which further added attractive parts to their history.
“He was in Louisville, I was in Kentucky — You won’t be a friend when you get those two things,” Calipare said Friday. “You won’t be an enemy but … you know, I respect the coaches who can really do this well, and if you can do it in long and long time, I really respect you.
Calipari said he had long studied Petino and said how his teams had always “to play hard and with a win. At the same time, the distance between them was visible when asked on Friday that Peterno asked Kentucky fans to return to Rup Arena for the first time since his departure in early February.
“I’d rather have a Christmas card, but that was a nice thing for him,” he said.
“We are both Italian. We both love the game. I think the similarities will end there very well,” Peterno said.