An Arizona State transfer, Sanon is averaging 8.4 points, 2.7 rebounds and shooting 35.2 percent from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith what he\u2019s learning this year, I think he can be great,\u201d Pitino said. \u201cHe\u2019s got stardom ahead of him. I think he\u2019s going to be a big-time scorer. He\u2019s learning to play defense, rebound, do other things. He can be a 28- [to] 30-minute-a-game player and somebody who\u2019s great at two different positions [next year].\u201d<\/p>\n
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St. John\u2019s Red Storm guard Joson Sanon puts up a shot over Butler Bulldogs forward Michael Ajayi. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Pitino said he met with Sanon before the Georgetown game for a half-hour, and had a long talk with him about needing to be more than just a scorer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018The reason you\u2019re not on draft boards is not because you\u2019re shooting a low percentage.\u2019 A pro scout said to me, \u2018Yeah, he looks to score, he\u2019s a one-dimensional guy,\u2019 \u201d Pitino said. \u201c[I told him], \u2018Not until the last game when you grabbed six rebounds and did other things in the game did people say, you\u2019re more than just a scorer.\u2019<\/p>\n
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\u201c \u2018If you want to be just a one-dimensional basketball player, you\u2019re never going to play a day in the NBA. But you are our most talented, gifted basketball player on this team. You have the most skills.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Sanon began to show off some of that talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s is going to have to replace its entire frontcourt in the spring, but it is expecting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,3426,217,1389,231,772,1544,1284,66,218],"class_list":["post-642268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-big-east","tag-college-basketball","tag-joson-sanon","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-rick-pitino","tag-sports","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116180041373217045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}