Steele Venters and Ryan Beasley in Postgame

Does he ever give you guys limitations? I know he brought in Steele and Parker specifically for outside shooting, but do you guys have any limitations on just letting that route fly? No, I mean we emphasize gold shots. We're trying to get great shots and so if me and Parker are in those situations we can let it fly as much as we want. It seemed like in the second half, the post also opened up more for you guys. Just kind of with the way the three-point shooting was going, took that trap away from them. Just how that opened the offense up for you guys, the fact that you had that shot going, and just as the game went on, you were able to open up the post. Yeah, I mean, they were switching one through five, so we would sometimes get smalls down there on bigs, like Lathan, Nico. Also, we have good passing bigs. We knew when we threw it down there, the low man was a heavy help, so we were able to skip out and actually pass the shoe over three, so. I think playing off the post was big time for us tonight and in our preparation as well. Ryan, you had your first career double-double tonight. Obviously, you're hustling a lot down there on the boards. And that's something that Coach Brinkle emphasizes a lot coming into the year of getting guards down to the blocks. And what's it like for you as one of the veteran guys on this team to kind of set the tempo down there? Yeah, I mean, our guys play great defense and they box out and I kind of just come and clean it up. They really do the dirty work. So shout out to my teammates for that. But I just have a knack for the ball. Ball comes off the rim, I try to go get it. Still, this... You got going early with the threes, how big is that for you? I mean, it's big time. I think the team looks a lot different when I'm knocking down shots. And these guys make it easy for me, so yeah, it's big time tonight.