St. John's media and fans saw the public Steve Lavin yesterday, wearing a natty charcoal gray suit, Clorox-white shirt, diagonally striped navy and off-white tie and a smile that looked like the giant Hollywood sign.
What few have seen, as Lavin has kept practices closed, is a demanding, relentless, approach to transforming the Red Storm from gritty contenders to winners.
Practice is no longer at 4 p.m., it's at 6 a.m.
"To be honest, the first time my alarm went off, I wanted to cry," said senior point guard Malik Boothe, not the only player to have been pushed to the breaking point by Lavin; his drill sergeant, Mike Dunlap; and assistants Rico Hines, Tony Chiles and veteran Gene Keady, who roared to Lavin in a recent practice that the players had such lousy spacing, one grenade could kill them all.
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