3 takeaways from Pitino's Miami Q&A

Here's the deal: Twitter and Facebook and other social media platforms are great places to get coverage of a team and for reporters to post their work or information about whatever they're covering.

But in doing so, especially on Twitter, there's limited space to get the full message of what you just witnessed. Today was a good example. After ripping his suspended point guard Chris Jones on Wednesday, Louisville coach Rick Pitino on Friday tried to detail his conversations with the since-reinstated Jones.

He told Jones how disappointed he was that Jones had put himself ahead of his team with behavior that resulted in the suspension. And I should note here, as many UK fans have tweeted or emailed me and asked about this, that this suspension isn't the same as others in recent memory, at least according to the double-digit number of people I spoke to about Jones.

Related:Lack of deflections bothers Pitino

Jones has had a few blips in the road with his attitude, and this week was the last straw. Pitino explained that he didn't hear about the last straw until right before Louisville left for Syracuse, so he told the senior guard to stay home. So with that context, that's why Pitino explained Friday that he told Jones that his behavior "cost your team a victory."

More on Jones: Pitino kept going from there ... "Not saying we would've won with (Jones) there, but he knows how I feel and he's very disappointed as well. He wanted to make that trip. We have to move on now. 'You can't do anything to erase your mistake, but what you can do is play harder and better.'"

As you'd expect, Jones was a popular topic of discussion at Friday's press conference. Pitino later said that "Chris Jones is a great kid ... You may not see it because his body language isn't the best. He doesn't want to get taken out ever. He wants to play all 40 minutes ... He has to understand other people like to play."

On Blackshear. Pitino made the earth-shattering clarification that Wayne Blackshear did, in fact, record a statistic other than a foul against Syracuse on Wednesday. The official box score lists Blackshear as fouling out without a point, rebound or an assist. Pitino said Blackshear had an assist on Wednesday that the scorer missed.

He also said, "He's playing great in practice. I mean great. He's doing things I haven't seen him do -- taking off, dunking on people, getting fouled ... He doesn't get in the flow sometimes. I think he stresses out when he gets fouls. He dominates practice. I expect him to have a great finish to the year."

On Quentin Snider. The freshman guard who started in Jones's absence posted 13 points, four assists, three rebounds and no turnovers at Syracuse. He later admitted he was pretty nervous, but he played well. Pitino said Friday that Snider's play was the silver lining in the loss. "He showed unbelievable offensive maturity. All of us were kind of taken aback by that."