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Rick Pitino Said Greek Basketball Makes The Final Four Look Like Church And, Well, After This Video I Think He's WILDLY Underselling It

Imagine playing in this environment? I mean we hear things about crazy college hoops venues and rightfully so. But I don’t see fucking fireworks going off. I don’t see that chanting. I have no idea what they are saying but I’m pretty sure it would make me piss down my leg immediately.

I believe this is Aris Basketball Club in Greece. Which I don’t know much about but quickly looking at the roster it has guys like Gary McGhee (good to see he’s still able to play after Kemba Walker), there’s Ramon Harris, there’s Gary Bell. Dudes that played in college.

I’m not sure how one even plays with all this fire and fireworks going on. I mean that has to stop during the game, right? Hell of a way to distract someone shooting free throws though. Going up for a one and one and you have a damn rocket going off.

At least Rick is still able to coach out there:

Remember he said this about Grand Canyon too: