Love him or hate him, point guard Kerr Kriisa did it his way for the Arizona Wildcats over three never-dull seasons before entering the transfer portal.
Bruce Pascoe Several hours after announcing he was leaving the Arizona Wildcats, guard Kerr Kriisa was introduced on a podcast with a particularly rough version of the news.Sitting on a sofa with now-former teammate Pelle Larsson to record their “A Nameless Podcast” on Wednesday, Kriisa arched his head back and laughed.It was classic Kriisa.
Uh-huh. As a junior at Arizona this season, Kriisa apparently did some of the same sort of thing. He even drew this comment from normally soft-spoken Oregon center N’Faly Dante after the Ducks’ 87-68 blowout win over the Wildcats on Jan. 14 at Eugene:After intercepting one of Kriisa’s passes early in that game, Dante took it back and dunked over Kriisa so powerfully that Kriisa skidded on his back straight into the cushion of the basket’s base.
When Kriisa played 19 minutes in his debut against Utah, then-UA coach Sean Miller said: “you could kind of see his spark.” Two days later, Kriisa made it even more obvious: He jumped in front of veteran Colorado point guard McKinley Wright on a fastbreak to take a charge. At McKale Center, not surprisingly, he took it all in. Kriisa blew kisses and outstretched his arms, while always wearing a No. 25 jersey that carried his first name — at his request — having embraced the fact that legendary UA point guard Steve Kerr already had a No. 25 jersey hanging on the McKale Center wall.
He ditched the headband for UA's Nov. 7 season opener after shooting poorly in the Red-Blue Game and a preseason exhibition, but that didn't work. By then, the headband had become his signature, featured even on NIL T-shirts marketed in his name. Kriisa had actually been taken out of that game with 3:02 to go, with UA en route to a comfortable 97-77 win, but at that point Kriisa had only 21 points, 10 assists ... and nine rebounds.“Totally not my style,” Lloyd said. “But I thought, ‘OK. Kerr Kriisa is probably never gonna be in this position again in his career to have nine rebounds,’ and he just needed one rebound for a triple-double. So I was like, ‘I’ll give him a shot.
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