Gonzaga head coach Mark Few reacts to the Bulldogs' 101-74 victory over the Toreros
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00:00 >> Mark Benny just in that role, he thrives on it.
00:06 >> Yeah, great call, Jim.
00:07 No, he came in and gave us energy right from the jump.
00:11 And just making positive plays on both ends of the floor.
00:17 And I thought that was huge.
00:19 I also thought obviously Ryan, really, really fast paced game.
00:25 And then switching their defenses all the time, made a really good feel for that.
00:29 And then Nolan's put together two really, really solid games.
00:32 It was a really huge force.
00:36 >> But the defense, especially in the first half,
00:39 disrupting a lot of their passes and passing turnovers for them.
00:42 >> We tried to, we wanted to get up into them, especially in our own gym here.
00:46 I thought we did a decent job of that.
00:49 I thought in stretches it was really good.
00:51 Probably that first eight minutes was pretty good.
00:54 Then we had a little lull.
00:55 And then we had a fight really, really good.
00:57 And that last two minutes or something wasn't good.
01:00 So we just gotta tighten some things up.
01:03 And especially some of those rotation guys need to come in and
01:06 help us a little more defensively.
01:09 >> What does it say about Ben,
01:10 just that he embraces that role that he has so fervently and plays that way?
01:16 >> Yeah, I mean, that's what he does.
01:18 That's who Ben Drake is.
01:20 So we're lucky to have him.
01:23 And he does buy in and he understands how important it is for him to do that.
01:28 >> Mark, another nice night from beyond the arc shooting three.
01:31 Has anything gone into the turnaround there?
01:34 >> I mean, guys, we work on it.
01:35 We've been working on it all year.
01:37 We shoot, we shoot a lot.
01:40 We shoot in the summer, we shoot.
01:41 Sometimes they go in and sometimes they don't.
01:44 I mean, that's all I can tell you.
01:46 Fortunately, Ryan's a good shooter.
01:49 Just got off to a miserable start.
01:53 And a little bit of it was shot selection early, but then lately,
01:57 he's had a pop court and how, in and outs.
01:59 Threes, under further review, become twos and things like that.
02:05 I mean, it's been tough.
02:07 So it's been nice to see him.
02:10 I mean, it shows you how mentally strong a kid he is.
02:16 He just powers through it, kept shooting, the next one's going in.
02:20 And I think that would have broke a lot of guys out there.
02:24 So I'm proud of him.