The New York Post’s Stefan Bondy recently shared an interesting anecdote shared with him by former Villanova head coach Jay Wright about Boston Celtics backup combo guard Payton Pritchard’s recruitment. “Pritchard … was ready to commit to Villanova despite playing a similar position to DiVincenzo,” said Wright via Bondy. “They hit it off during Pritchard’s official visit and played one-on-one-on-one with Brunson, which eventually rerouted Pritchard to … Oregon.”
“We thought they could play together like (Ryan Arcidiacono) did with Jalen (Brunson),” he added. “And they played one-on-one, and I think Payton was like, ‘Oh my God, we didn’t know about this guy (DiVincenzo).”And then after that, they were like, ‘We’re still going to look around.’'”
Somehow, that bit got in front of the eyes of former Celtics assistant coach Damon Stoudamire — now the head coach of Georgia Tech — on social media, who wrote “I’m gone have to call PP about this.”
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It may have been a good story, and much of it may even be true. But when Fast PP replied to Stoudamire’s tweet, all he had to say was “that’s (cap)”.
For old heads like yours truly, that’s newspeak for “horse pucky”.
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