Dusty May
Key quotes
- “I don't see why we can't compete with every single team in the country on any given night.”Q21 ↓
- “And we've shot it at such a higher clip, there's not as many rebounds and we haven't been quite as good as I thought we could be.”Q12 ↓
- “I could see this being a group where we might have 6 or 7 games where we have a different leading scorer every night.”Q6 ↓
Transcript
Q6 Lineups and minute allocation
When you have a roster, this team, that can do this many things, it feels like maybe the, the main question is who works the best together. I know that was something that you guys were piecing together last year. Even though it's still early, are you starting to get some of those signs? Are there particular lineups, or how do you see sort of the minute allocation and that type of thing now?
The minute allocation, I don't know yet. We still have several weeks. As far as combinations, yeah, there's, there are certain guys that have played well with Maybe this point guard's played a little bit better with this center, or these two wings have played better together than these other two wings. But we still have a lot of information, a lot of data to gather before we make those decisions.
We do have a deep lineup. There's going to be shared sacrifice. You know, one of the mistakes I felt like that I made with that FAU team, that we brought everyone back, was that we talked about how we could increase tempo, we could increase our defensive intensity and we could find ways to generate more possessions and everyone would get a little bit more because we knew everyone would want more.
In hindsight, I should have done a better job of explaining that there wouldn't be any more individually. There's just not enough. Like, our more has to be more team success, has to be more fulfillment in our— the guy to the right and the left of me doing well. And so that has to be our team.
I could see this being a group where we might have 6 or 7 games where we have a different leading scorer every night. And our roster has to be okay with it because we're chasing something bigger than personal ambition or individual accolades.
Q12 Early team identity
I know it's early, but are you starting to get an idea of what this team's identity can be and what do you want that identity to be?
I want it— I want us to be one of the best defensive teams in the country because we're big and we're athletic and we have positional versatility. Offensively, we've shot it much, much better than we did last year in practice and much better than I anticipated this year. I— going into the summer I felt like we would really need to hang our hat on offensive rebounding.
And we've shot it at such a higher clip, there's not as many rebounds and we haven't been quite as good as I thought we could be. And so we're still trying to figure out exactly what our identity is going to be. But we know that we're going to share the ball on offense, we're going to play the great pace, and defensively we're going to put very versatile, determined defenders on the court and see what we can evolve into. Charles.
Q21 Expectations for this team
Couple more, Tony. Yeah, Dusty at the top. You said that we're not going to shy away from expectations. What do you see as the expectations?
I don't see why we can't compete with every single team in the country on any given night.
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