Darian DeVries' focal points for his West Virginia Mountaineers this past week in preparation for the Battle 4 Atlantis were simple: Limit turnovers on offense,
Darian DeVries' focal points for his West Virginia Mountaineers this past week in preparation for the Battle 4 Atlantis were simple: Limit turnovers on offense, share the ball and most importantly, continue to be physical on the defense end, especially with regard to rebounding. It's not a coincident those are same area of the game their first round opponent,The Bulldogs tip off the multi-team event from The Bahamas on Wednesday ranked No.
DeVries probably doesn't need to look at all the numbers to know how the Zags tick. He's went through tape study on Mark Few's team once before as an assistant coach at Creighton back in 2017, when the Bluejays visited Spokane for a matchup against the Bulldogs at the McCarthey Athletic Center. To DeVries, the 2024-25 Bulldogs run very similar to the 2017-18 team that beat his Creighton squad, 91-74, in The Kennel that season.
While his team is scheduled to play three games in three days down in Paradise Island, DeVries is locked in on making sure his Mountaineers don't endure the same fate his Bluejays once did. "My entire focus is on Gonzaga," DeVries said on Tuesday.
"Yeah they are incredibly fast. And we certainly haven't played anybody with this type of speed. They're very, very good in transition. They're elite at it. They play to it every single game. That's a huge challenge as to, how do you try to slow them down? And I think the biggest thing is making sure you have to take care of the basketball number one, and then making sure you're getting good shot selection, so that you're not playing in transition all the time.
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