{"id":230482,"date":"2025-10-17T02:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230482\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:36:08","slug":"st-johns-rick-pitino-wants-bryce-hopkins-to-be-great-and-passionate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230482\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s Rick Pitino wants Bryce Hopkins to be &#8216;great and passionate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Pitino believes Bryce Hopkins has more to give.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t necessarily been disappointed by the Providence transfer forward so far, but the St. John\u2019s coach thinks there is untapped potential in the former All-Big East First-Team selection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBryce is a great guy, but he\u2019s been good and solid the entire summer, and now I\u2019m not after good and solid \u2014 I\u2019m after great and passionate,\u201d Pitino said on Thursday, as fifth-ranked St. John\u2019s held media day at Carnesecca Arena. \u201cAnd once he reaches that mentality, you\u2019re gonna see one of the best players in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pitino is known to push his best players to a point they didn\u2019t know they could reach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Pitino believes Bryce Hopkins has more to give. He hasn\u2019t necessarily been disappointed by the Providence transfer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,4044,398,400,401,14601,99,358,14602],"class_list":["post-230482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-rick-pitino","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}