Kraziness in the chenil sold in record time this year, proof that even the most ceremonial night of the program continues to draw the same devotion and anticipation which defines the community of Gonzaga. Sean Farnham returned as a ceremonial master, his energy has always launched somewhere between the touch journalist and the deputy director in a pep assembly, and although it is difficult to read too much in everything we have maintained this evening on the field, it is also impossible not to do it. So that’s exactly what we are going to do now.
The night started with players’ presentations, and the lights and smoke machines have generated enough enthusiasm to make the entrance to each player. But everything seemed to rely on the first wave of real excitement when Tyon Grant-Foster appeared in a Gonzaga jersey carrying the number 7.
The three-point competition followed with Mario Saint-Supery, Adam Miller, Braden Huff and Steele Venters. The presence of Mario alluded to the growing confidence of the staff in his sweater, Huff for the will of coaches staff to focus on the spacing in the first zone. Miller pulled with a fluid and without haste, while Venters – focused and composed after two lost seasons – delivered the noisiest applause of the night. When he surpassed Miller in the final, the crowd’s reaction showed how much this community fired for Steele.
Between the competitions, Farnham interviewed Graham Ike and Braden Huff, both relaxed and measured, before the Arena lights decrease for the first of Large man uA new media threshing video translating the line of professional Bigs from Gonzaga: Holmgren, Sabonis, Timme, Rui, Collins, Karnowski. A short clip by Chet Holmgren praising Mark Fe fe fe Firt has played while Sam Funches, one of the most coveted recruits in the country, has looked at shortly, a recall that even entertainment serves as recruitment.
The only strange moment came when Saint-Supery, Emmanuel Innocenti and Ismaila diagnosed tried to juggle a football ball at Half Court. The diagnosis and innocenti have succeeded decently. Mario did not do it. He read as comedy rather than a failure, but the security problems of the Saint Supery ball would reappear later. From there, the night moved to its true substance: the fray, the rhythm, the chemistry and the glimpse of what this list could soon become. The ten came out.
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10. The return of 3
It has been a long time since the kennel saw shooters who are also eager to let it fly. Steele Venters went 3-in-4 from Deep, Adam Miller 3-en-6, and each blow came quickly and clean. The two looked free, confident and ready to shoot. The crowd responded, the pace has risen and the offensive has opened in a way that has not been seen for years. Gonzaga finished 7-in-23 of three, with six of those of Venters and Miller. After a season of slow goods and prudent sets, it looked like a team that is anxious to put the “pistol” in the Run-And-Gun.
9. Davis Fogle is coming
Somewhere between the eligibility updates of Tyon Grant-Foster, the media threshing of Mario Saint-Supery, and the silent relief of having Huff and Ike, people have forgotten that Gonzaga has brought its best-classified recruit from Nolan Hickman. Davis Fogle looked at Really Good in his 16 minutes for the white team alongside Smith, Warley, Miller, and diagnose. Its line was quite simple: seven points on 3 out of 5 shots, two rebounds, a decisive pass. But each possession with him had the impression that something was going to happen. He moved the ball very well and created shots with a calm that did not look like the first year energy. Movement, vision, length, everything translates. After a summer spent wondering that could be eligible or available, seeing a first -year -old student safely looked like the best surprise of the night. Fogle is ready. And we can see it much more than we planned.
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8. Braeden Smith controls chaos
Five assists in seventeen minutes is the elite, no matter how you cut it. The shot did not fall (1-4 on the ground) but his order from the offensive was fully exposed. Smith played quickly, pushed the tempo and kept the defense to guess the first possession. Gonzaga looked faster, lighter, more unpredictable. Some passes crossed the traffic so quickly that the teammates did not have time to react. These will start to connect once everyone will adapt to their own pace. Smith wants to play in transition, to live in this vagueness where the defense has not quite found its place. This is where he is the most dangerous, and this is where the ZAGs look most alive.
7. Mario Saint-Supery learns the leading strings
Mario Saint-Supery played every minute in the lead, although he expected to spend more time on the ball once the matches are starting to count. He had command and rhythm bursts that showed how dangerous he could be, followed by sections where everything accelerated and turnover came too easily. Five of them, against three assists, told the story. Braeden Smith finished with the opposite report on the same shooting line. Saint-Supery has skills, vision and confidence, but the HE system takes place on precision. The tools are there, but the place of the main guard is comfortably spoken. I hope he has a chance as a goalkeeper out of ball before the confidence of wire in his balloon safety decreases.
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6. Tyon Grant-Foster shows what could come
Tyon Grant-Foster had barely unpacked his Spokane bags, and most people thought he would not play at all. Instead, he started in Kraziness for the white team alongside Huff and Ike and immediately seemed to belong. His athletics was absurd. At the start of the fray, he threw a boom outback dunk in the track (although he did not count), then tried later to dip on Ismaila diagnostic on the basic line and almost succeeded. (Blocked more by the edge than by diagnosis). He did not score, but his spacing was intelligent, his defense locked himself up and his ability to reduce in head gave a lot to be excited. If it is cleared, it gives Gonzaga an absurdly gifted athlete who can keep, cut and raise over traffic. If it is not, this brief overview of Kraziness will sting for months.
5. The Huff – Ike connection
Braden Huff and Graham Ike looked like a finished product. Huff scored 17 on 8 shots out of 13 with six boards, cleaning the track each time Ike drew a double. IKE added eight points, 11 rebounds and no turnover while attracting constant attention inside. The balance between them was easy: a breath reading space, an IKE absorbent contact, both feeding. Few have called this perhaps the best return area in university basketball. Even this could be a conservative assessment.
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The ball has zipped overnight. No one has held it, no one hesitated. Huff and Ike took him out of the double, Fogle and Innocenti swayed it through the arc, and the guards crossed the space instead of waiting for resets. The rhythm was constant: catch, read, move. The result was clean basketball: fewer waste wasted, faster decisions and a team that already looks like what he likes to share the ball.
3. Jalen Warley does a bit of everything
Jalen Warley filled gaps overnight and made it easy. He scored nine points on a shot of 4 out of 6, switched between the positions without losing a rhythm and defended with a real goal. From the wing, he attacked the dribble, by descending and forcing the aid. When he slipped into the four next to the diagnosis of Ismaila, he is properly integrated into the range and kept the space spaced. Warley looked like a player who can connect to any range and keep it stable, and this kind of flexibility is something that Gonzaga has not had for a while.
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2. Adam Miller changes mathematics
Adam Miller played 17 of the 20 minutes and made every second account. He scored 13 points on 3 shots out of 6 – all of Deep – and went 4 -in -4 of the line. Each blow came quickly and clean, the kind of confident release that moves the whole pace of an offense. When the defenders chased him out of the line, he led directly into contact and arrived at the band. In a melee built on overviews, he stood out. Gonzaga has a real bucket again, and he was immediately shown.
1. Steele Venters returns
Steele Venters only played 11 minutes, scored nine points and hit all of its deep brands. Seeing him return to the field after two lost seasons felt emotional in a way that statistics cannot transmit. He looked strong, calm and completely rhythm all the time that he was on the ground. The shot was there, smooth like never before, but what stood out, how much he looked comfortable to create in the flow of the offensive, showing himself much more than a guy in the catch and shots. He moved without hesitation, attacked closing them and spaced the soil as if he had never left. For a program that needs shooting and for a player who waited for years to give it, it was cathartic. Venters gained applause every second he had, and probably a little more. The night belonged to him.
