Inside St. Johns locker room for heated blowup after controversial Simeon Wilcher dunk

It hasn’t been all roses and sunshine for St.John’s.

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The Vice TV docu-series following the seventh-ranked Johnnies — “Pitino: Red Storm Rising” — is offering a behind-the-scenes look at their magical season, and provided a peek into a contentious locker room moment early in the year.Late in a Jan.4 win over Butler at Carnesecca Arena, sophomore guard Simeon Wilcher attempted a windmill dunk in the final seconds when the result was in hand.

It drew coach Rick Pitino’s ire.Vice presented The Post with an exclusive clip ahead of the third episode on Tuesday night in which players are bickering and assistant coach Taliek Brown went off on the team.“Yo, shut the f–k up, man.Shut the f–k up.

What the f–k is wrong with ya?” Brown, the former Connecticut star, said.“All ya mother-f–kers.I’m tired of all ya motherf–kers.

Shut the f–k up.What the f–k is wrong with ya.

We here for one f–king goal, that’s to win.We all here for one another.

We don’t got time for that bulls–t.”Pitino publicly criticized Wilcher at the time and apologized to Butler.He considered suspending the talented guard, but opted against it.Pitino said then he asked the team, and it felt it wasn’t worthy of a suspension.There were people yelling at Wilcher to score from behind the St.

John’s bench and he attempted the dunk after initially looking like he was just going to dribble out the clock.In St.

John’s next game, Wilcher came through with 15 points and three assists in an impressive road victory at Xavier.St.

John’s hast lost just once since then, at Villanova.CHECK OUT THE LATEST BIG EAST STANDINGS AND ST.JOHN’S STATSLast week, Wilcher said he has only seen clips of the show, and wasn’t worried about reliving the moment.“It’s in the past, I don’t really care about it,” he said....

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