Purdue’s Zach Edey on UConn’s Donovan Clingan: 'We’ve got a game plan for him'
Zach Edey and Matt Painter strategize on how to handle the UConn center, while Dan Hurley and Donovan Clingan discuss ways to stop the Purdue big man in Monday's NCAA National Championship game.
Video Transcript
ZACH EDEY: We're going to attack them differently. We're definitely going to stay-- look, we got a game plan for him. They're obviously a great team. He's a great player. He puts you in some binds. But we got a game plan.
MATT PAINTER: Cligan is really good. Like, he changes the game defensively, but offensively, he's a good player too. But he's just going to keep coming. He's going to be a fabulous player. He's got 15 to 20 years in front of him. But don't take anything away from other guys on that front line, because they're all good players.
DONOVAN CLINGAN: On offense, I feel like they're going to try to attack me, try to get me in foul trouble at times. You know, so I just got to be real technical with my technique and wall up at the rim. You know, on offense, they're going to try to slow me down in the ball screen game, really just try to take me off the offensive glass. And you know, I just got to play through the contact, play through the physicality, and give it my all.
DAN HURLEY: He understands the challenges that he's dealing with. With Zach Edey, it's just a unique matchup. He's played against some outstanding centers in Soriano and Kalkbrenner, but this is a different animal. And they use him in a much, much different way.