Should the Hurricanes Press?
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00:00 Do you think at any point this year, Jim Laranago will want to press, whether it's against Duke
00:08 or any other team, even if it's just a man press, to speed things up?
00:13 Because they're going to go against teams like you've mentioned and we've talked about
00:16 before, "Hey, this isn't the biggest team.
00:19 They're better in the open court."
00:21 Would it benefit the Hurricanes if they used some more press?
00:24 I think we have the athletes to do it.
00:27 Bensley Joseph and Wuga are by far our two best defenders.
00:31 I think Wuga's even taken a step from last year to this year.
00:34 I'm expecting that Bensley's an elite defender even from last year.
00:38 But because we're smaller, I mean, even Norchad can run the floor.
00:43 We have the athletes and Keyshawn is super tall, lanky.
00:47 Matthew Cleveland's athleticism was super surprising to me watching him play last night.
00:52 I definitely could see us using the press.
00:55 I think it could benefit us depending on the team that we play because of our size, we're
01:01 more athletic and I think we could tire players out.
01:04 And we've already shown we're really good at running the break just from the game last
01:08 night.
01:09 We were running up, we were running a NJIT up and down the floor.
01:14 I don't even know what our stats were with fast break points, but there was a lot.
01:18 So if we can create more turnovers, that's our game.
01:22 We have to be more athletic than the other team because we're not going to overpower