I mean, hey, it's just a
just an overwhelmingly great.
A group of people, man,
they're just in, in their own way.
They got their own personalities.
I mean, obviously proves
personalities as big as anything.
And then you got Ross here.
That's very reserved.
But I mean, you kidding me?
Really rolls into our community and and.
Starts just this awesome charity
you know no worries gathering
up and helping people from the
jump and and and then Malachi's
got a a great positive upbeat
personality that this team.
Really needed.
And I mean, antons
have been kind of the unsung hero this,
this. This year and this season with
just a you know what he does for us?
What do you think Jerry ranks in terms
of just the most accomplished players
who have come through here as far as the
way things, the production, everything is. I
mean, I think you gotta, you gotta put him.
I mean, he's definitely.
At the top of the list or close to it?
I mean, I don't know if we're just what
he's done at Gonzaga. I don't know.
Especially when you factor in he's close
to breaking the all time scoring record.
I don't know where he's at with winds,
but that was impacted by COVID,
some of the wind stuff and and just how
long he was ranked number one and and.
Again, just his ability to just
deliver time and time again when we.
When we always need it and his durability,
I mean, I don't know that he's missed
a practice or certainly hasn't
missed a game or or anything so.
I mean, if he isn't at the top,
he's he's, I mean a sliver below it.
But I mean, I he's he's.
Mark, obviously there's
still games to be played,
but what are you going to take most from
this senior class as far as the joy you get
from coaching these guys? I
mean hey, I get you know,
joy at all the guys that come through here,
but you know, obviously, hey,
they they're all unique in their
own way and and like I said,
they've been wonderful guys to coach.
And they bought into our.
Team philosophy and and our family
and they've they've had fun you
know nobody's more fun than Drew
Timmy and they they've just been
really really easy to coach
which is a you know that's what
I always remember and cherish.
Parkdale League came out I think Drew
was Co Al Qaeda 6th man Julian first team
and time was just honorable mention.
Any reaction to to the overall picture then
I don't really get into all that stuff.
So I mean obviously true should
have been player of the year as we
were hoping Anton would be defensive
player of the Year but there were
some good defensive players of the
year when you got Logan Johnson and
and Bowens a heck of a defender
too so you know those things are.
So why we get into it?
What do you want to schedule this game that,
I mean, you guys usually go 8 or
9 days without a game between.
No, it didn't have run too much to do.
It didn't have anything to do with that.
It's just we had the PK 85, we had the.
The aircraft carrier games,
that really shrunk our date availability
down to like one or two specific dates
where we had to find a game where a
game short we tried and tried all the
way into September and then we just,
you know, we've done this in the past.
You know, as long as you finish
in the top two in the league,
it turns out pretty good.
So we took our chances there
and it turned out great, so.
What did you think of the response
to after everything that happened
Saturday and then with the senior night,
I think they did great especially,
you know what we played good deed
for the 1st 15 or so minutes,
really really good D and then really
had a phenomenal one second-half
there on both sides of the ball.
And obviously, you know it's hard and
and like look Chicago state doesn't
mean they play hard and they got you.
You guys saw him.
They got some nice athletic guys that
can take you off the bounce and they shot
the three well in the first half and the.
They do a nice job of switching everything,
which is different than what you see.
They switch all your
actions and so it's hard,
really hard to run offense.
So I thought we handled it well.
Coach getting the boys until Monday,
do you like, you know, being able
to take those couple days with the
team or is it would you rather,
you know, see a scenario where
no, I think you got to get
an advantage for, you know?
When in your league or whatever,
you need to have an advantage
rather than it just being, you know,
straight socialism or something
or you don't have to do anything,
you get any everything so.
I I think. It's hard.
The one hard thing about it is.
The team will play,
will have a game with, which is just,
it's just a different field down there.
You know, the league tournament.
Some of these teams are playing obviously
with a desperation ourselves in Saint Mary's.
No, we're in.
So I mean they're playing for their lives,
you know, it's a neutral court setting.
But then also they get that game to get kind
of the nerves and stuff out and then they
get a day to rest and then they play us.
So you know, it's,
it's kind of a little bit of an
advantage to be in that spot.
But I mean so far the buyers have worked
out pretty good for us over the years.
So number two, more for
coach. I mean, you don't know who
you're going to play, the shortest path,
the kind of dialing on them. If we
just work on ourselves for a while
and then we'll kind of spend a
little bit of time on who we think
we might play, but by and large.
And then you know that we can actually
practice here Sunday before we go down.
So we'll know who we're going to play.
So.
Marked with all the seniors today.
Are they at least for sure, because of
the COVID eligibility and everything?
Are they for sure not? Or maybe
it'll be. That'll be up to
them and that'll be decided.
My experience with that is it's
decided long after. Games like this,
and even after the season, you know,
we need to see what their options
are and see what they're feeling.
And all that it's usually.
It's never really decided, you know?
Right now you know unless.
Guy like drew or something.
I ain't gonna lie,
and that's really hit me yet.
We have so much left to do that
it's kind of just like it was
like another game to me, but.
I think maybe later when the
adrenaline wears off and it's like,
damn, that was really my last game,
I it's gonna be weird.
But it was cool.
I mean, to just like,
get all the love and support for,
like, all of us, like,
it's pretty special,
and I think it's just a testament
to how great this community is.
What has this community event for you
in a nutshell again?
Um.
I ain't gonna lie,
did not think I was gonna like it
up here when I first came up here.
Pretty biased to Texas.
And as much as I I hate to say this,
this place has been a great second
home to me and it's a place that
I could definitely see myself.
You know, in the future just
hanging around and stuff because
I I just loved everything about
it up here so much and.
Yeah, it's pretty much as great as I can say.
I didn't want to like it,
but I ended up loving
it. Let you guys answer
that question, yeah. Like
for me, the community,
like like Drew said,
feels like a second family.
Just like everywhere you go,
like restaurants, everyone's
like just acknowledging you.
And you know,
just especially with me being
like really far from home,
you know, it feels good.
Like there's people I earn my
corner and I have my back, so. I
ain't gonna lie, I forgot the question.
The communities and like,
I mean, you're the hometown kid,
but what does it mean to you, that
reception you get here at home and just
this whole community growing up here?
Yeah, it means a lot just because I've
grown up here and just seeing, you know,
how people have watched me and, you know,
watch me grow as a player and as a person.
So there's a lot of people who
have faith in me and believe
in me as a basketball player.
So, you know, that's that's just all loving.
That's why I give love back.
The community and it's really,
that's just how it goes.
I would just say the love and support here,
especially from the basketball
side has been great.
You know, transferring in last year and
just didn't accepted me as a player,
you know, into this, into this,
into this program.
And then as far as the Community
service work has been a lot of,
there's been a lot of fun just being
able to connect with the community and
kind of be out there with them and you know,
to be able to help and try to leave
this place better than I found it.
So it's been,
it's been a lot of fun for me.
You guys have a chance
to come back if you want.
I think you both are eligible.
I think you guys are both misstated.
I got nothing left.
I'm just focused on the season right now.
Control, I just had the same
view on my feet are sore,
my feet right here, right now.
So focus on that and then that
stuff will take care of itself. The same way.
Thank you guys. Combined
for 56 and had the 1st 13
of the game tonight.
The kind of fitting that
the seniors are are playing,
playing this whole last home game
was like to see all of you guys
succeed at the same time tonight.
Great of you.
Umm yeah, that's that's what we love to see.
We know what we're all capable
of and it's senior night,
so everyone was kind of sharing the
ball and we're just having fun really.
And you know, that's a great way to end
our last game in the kennel together.
So yeah, we really just having fun together.
Have any of you guys had time to
reflect on how crazy the last
four years were for Drew Ranton?
You guys were?
Freshman and then you have the
NCAA tournament cancelled here.
The next year you're playing in an empty gym.
You make the national title game.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find
anyone you know in the history of college
basketball that's had a weirder 4 years.
Have you had any time
to like reflect on that?
I wouldn't say too much time to reflect just
cause it's gone by so fast and it's like.
You don't really think about it too much,
but I know when we're older,
we're gonna sit back and just
think about that a lot and just
talk about how crazy like these
four years have been for me,
from all of us, really,
and just like everything we've been through.
But, you know,
I think those are memories that
we're going to remember forever.
And on any disappointment with the league's
announcement today and the warrant,
I'm going to answer that one.
No, this dude was definitely the
defensive player of the year.
I don't know how they voted
or what happened on that, but.
That's pretty crazy.
This dude, God's the best player.
Every night he rebounds,
blocks, he does everything.
He's a big and he guards the guards.
Like, I mean,
I don't know who got it.
I didn't look,
but this dude definitely
should have got it,
no question.
Yeah, I don't pay attention
to it. I got it already.
Very few.
Maybe a little fuel, but you know,
I just keep my head down and just keep
doing what I'm doing and I know it's
going to pay off in the long run.
You know, I don't really pay
too much attention to all that.
For mount cameras here, you know,
it doesn't feel from an outsider's
perspective at all that you guys aren't,
you know, a part of this class because you
didn't start the your your careers here.
What do you lend to, you
know, how you guys were able
to gel with this team so quickly and
really feel like such a good unit. I
think just like coming here with
experience and being in different
a lot of different environments,
you know, like has helped us.
You know, like we can we know what
to bring to a team. You know,
I started my college career off the bench.
So now asking me to come off the benches
or something I'm not used to or anything.
And then playing a lot of different
environments, a lot of different roles.
Like it's a lot of like teams like this,
like these were like, you know,
these type of teams were the
games like I lived up, I lived,
you know, lived up for.
So, you know, coming here,
it kind of was I was able to
kind of bring like my own little,
you know, little thing
to the team, I guess.
I would just say I came in with an open mind,
you know, coming from Iowa State,
coming here, you know,
playing a different role-playing
with different team, you know,
different expectations of.
I was just really open and
listen to everybody, you know,
from Drew to coach field to,
to anybody, you know, anybody who had
a piece of knowledge about Gonzaga,
you know what we had to do with
the concept and things like that.
I was open book and I feel
like it helped me out a lot.
Cortana. Is it the tournament
in Vegas? Just from.
The potential seeding in
another match up with St.
Mary's and kind of going into
the NCAA's and the right
bike frame coming out.
I'm turning up working. So
it's huge. I mean that is a many,
many tournament you know,
you play a quick back-to-back kind of like
kind of like each, I don't even know.
It's called like little regional mashup,
you know, and it keeps going on and on
and it's that's kind of like the first
week of the tournament for us and it'll be
really important for us to lock down, I mean.
Whoever we play,
I mean even like Santa Clara first round,
like potentially like they've given us a
fit and then potentially potentially St.
Mary's again or whoever.
Like everyone,
everyone in this please give us a
touch tough matchup and it's going to
be hard to to combat people that have
played us three times in the same for them.
So it's going to be a real testament to
us and our prep and our focus will be
huge momentum if we can pull out a dub.
I think after the senior day
stuff wrapped up, he whispered
something into your brother's ear.
You remember you told him right
after something you can share.
We're not gonna figure that.
Yeah. Any more questions?
Andrew, I got this one for you
22 off I think now or just is,
is that something you've
been having the back of your
mind, it's 22. Thanks.
Um. The only thoughts I got on that is,
man, that dude's a walking bucket.
I've been here, I've been here a while
and I have a bunch of big games and I
still feel like I'm so far away from them.
But it's hard to process.
I mean, who knows if I'll get it?
I don't. No one does.
So, you know, just got to keep playing
and do whatever it takes to win.
That's all that matters.
You're gonna get it.
Hold on.
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