Daily News | Brand new coaches but familiar look to Villanova-La Salle opener
LaSalle coach Fran Dunphy talks with Josh Nickelberry. “It’s all about defense with the coach over here,” Nickelberry said.Face slightly reddened, hands cupped around his mouth as he yelled to his players, jacket off from the start, right arm folded over his left as he watched standing on the sideline.
Let’s make the argument that the whole thing — even Neptune taking over for a Hall of Famer — somehow seemed normal because it is normal. If college sports is fundamentally about change and how you handle it, here it all was Monday night, in living color, building packed. Sure, Villanova doesn’t have Jay Wright or Collin Gillespie or Jermaine Samuels, who seemed to be at the school almost as long as their head coach.
For Dunphy to “debut” against this squad, that’s obviously diving right into the deepest end of the pool. You don’t get to wonder how La Salle could have fared if Clifton Moore hadn’t transferred to Providence and Jack Clark hadn’t moved on to North Carolina State. “You miss the juice,” Dunphy said. “You get agita all day long, but when the ball goes up, it’s just awesome.”“Yeah, I’m sure I was rusty on some of the things I did,” Dunphy said. “My assistants were telling me some things, but it was great.”“How many times did I get up?” Dunphy said. “It comes with the age. You think about this, think about that.”
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