NEW YORK — Corey Fisher is a Superhero.
So says Sports Illustrated.
The Villanova senior point guard says he got a kick out of the recent cover featuring himself, Kansas State guard Jacob Pullen and BYU’s Jimmer Fredette.
“Coach [Jay Wright] and everybody got a hold of it and started making little jokes,” Fisher, a Bronx native, said Tuesday in advance of No. 7 Villanova’s game Wednesday night with UCLA at the NIT Preseason Tip-Off.
The former Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick star is sporting some serious guns in the comic book rendition.
“Everybody said, ‘I’m not that cut-up’ the way they made me,” said Fisher, averaging 16.5 points, 4.0 assists and 2.8 rebounds coming into the UCLA game.
Added teammate Corey Stokes: “It had a lot of freckles on his face. It looked just like him. It’s just great to see him in magazines and stuff like that.”
SI ran the subhead “Can A Streetball Legend Become a Champion?”
The question referred to a game this summer in which Fisher dropped 105 points in a single summer league outing.
Wright says it’s almost as if there are two Corey Fishers, the one who can dominate a summer league tilt and the one who deferred last year to Scottie Reynolds.
“Coach is always right about a lot of things he says, but Coach wants me to be a killer at all times,” Fisher said. “And that’s what I’ve been trying to do early in the season. As you can see, I’m trying to take over and be a leader of the team.”
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