Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway let his frustration out on some reporters throughout a post-game press convention.
After his alma mater’s third straight loss Thursday night time (Jan.21) in a troublesome 70-62 residence defeat towards SMU, Tigers head coach Anfernee Hardaway let reporters really feel his rage. He was triggered after a reporter requested if he ever misplaced religion in his capacity to get the job finished as a result of the crew hasn’t appeared to enhance or land high recruits throughout his four-year teaching tenure.
“I believe the one factor I can say to this media as a result of this media will get form of f—ed-up generally relating to me,” Hardaway mentioned. “We don’t have our full roster. Y’all know we don’t have our full roster. Cease asking me silly f—ing questions on if I really feel like I can do one thing. If I had my roster like they did, then I really feel like I can do no matter I wish to do. I’m teaching actually arduous, my boys are enjoying actually arduous. I’m not embarrassed about nothing. We now have 4 freshmen beginning. Y’all must act prefer it.”
“Act like we’ve bought 17, 18, and 19-year olds out right here attempting to learn to play towards 22, 23, and 24-year-old guys. Come on, man. Cease disrespecting me, bro. Don’t do this. I work too f—ing arduous. I work manner too arduous for that. Y’all write all these all these bullshit articles about me, and all I do is figure. We’ve bought younger children on the ground,” he additional added.
Hardway’s clearly seen frustration may stem from his crew’s poor play following a 4-0 begin. Granted, his Tigers are lacking its main returning scorers from final season in Landers Nolley and Deandre Williams, each out resulting from harm. However, he nonetheless has senior guards Tyler Harris and Alex Lomax and two juniors in heart Malcolm Dandridge and wing Lester Quinones. The 2 freshmen Hardway identified he began, Emoni Bates and Jalen Duren had been five-star prospects.
We hope Penny Hardaway can proper the ship. We’d hate to see him get the boot.
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