Gonzaga’s Mark Few states he’s ‘never’ coached versus another gamer like Zach Edey

Purdue’s Zach Edey hasactually been a force of nature therefore far in the NCAA Tournament. 

The 7-foot-4, 300-pound huge guy hasactually been that all season and is poised to win his 2nd Wooden Award as the nationwide guys’s college basketball gamer of the group. But Edey hasactually taken things up a notch when the lights haveactually gotten brighter, publishing 26.5 points, 17.5 rebounds and 3 obstructs per videogame through Purdue’s initially 2 videogames of March Madness.

The Boilermakers have travelled throughout their veryfirst 2 videogames versus Grambling State and Utah State, however will face their mostdifficult difficulty yet in the competition in a Sweet 16 match versus Gonzaga Friday. On the other side, Gonzaga head coach Mark Few is totally mindful of the risk Edey positions to his group after havingactually gone up versus an Edey-led Purdue group twotimes in non-conference competitions in current years.

“In 25 years I haveactually been a head coach here, I have neverever dealt with a gamer, or an entity like him,” Few stated. “He is a truly, actually, truly great basketball gamer. And he does whatever well, I indicate he posts the right method, can rating. … And then at the other end he’s simply — we’re a group that likes to shoot and are really efficient in the paint, and like to shoot 2 — it’s difficult to get shots off in the paint. 

“The finest thing we got going for us is we played versus him a couple times, so we’ve at least felt it, it won’t be a shock.”

For Few, while Edey’s a huge issue in his own best, he believes Purdue has loads of pieces that might cause difficulty for the Bulldogs.

“But it’s not just that, Matt Painter is one of the fantastic individuals in all of sports, and simply as excellent a basketball coach as there is,” Few went on. “He does a incredible task of sets, and the things that they do offensively, and the individuals around [Edey] — their guards are so much muchbetter this year. That Braden Smith’s a actually, actually, actually great gamer. So it’s gonna be a hard fight, however it’s incredible to still be playing. And we’ve been ahead I believe at halftime and into the 2nd half both times we played ‘em, we simply sanctuary’t been able to rather surface it off.”

Purdue takes on Few’s Bulldogs for the 3rd and most crucial time in the past 2 years on Friday at 7: 39 p.m. ET.

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