Daniel J. Kaplan, MD, a Sports Orthopedic Surgeon for NYU Langone Health, joins Brandon London to explain how Giants’ star LT Andrew Thomas is using the NFL offseason to recover from Lisfranc surgery.
But on Sunday, the senior point guard, somehow, helped ninth-ranked St. John’s knock off the Bluejays 79-73 at a sold-out Madison Square Garden.“Biggest shock. I was shutting him down,” Pitino said. “, ‘Deivon, when you’re 100 percent, you’re back in.’ He said , ‘Coach, do you mind if I try a player development session? I feel good, ready to go.’ It was one of the biggest shocks of the year for me because I thought we were looking at the earliest after Connecticut .
He pushed the pace and defended well. His presence enabled St. John’s to press for most of the game, and that appeared to wear out Creighton, which was held to 16 points over the final 14:51.“His speed offensively and then defensively, they have a lot of good defenders, I think he’s their best on ball defender,” Creighton coach Greg McDermott said. “He’s hard to screen. His closing speed is so good.
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