On Davonte Gaines and what he must do in practice to earn minutes in game
“Going back to the word consistency. You know? What are we going to get? Does he understand the scheme with everything we do? Shooting the ball. We just know what they’re going to do, and it goes back to the consistency. For the guys that you haven’t seen play, that’s the word that I would put with all of them, consistency. The guys that are playing have shown more of a consistent type performance day-in and day-out where we have an idea and that’s not to say they’re perfect. Guys that probably get their names called too much in practice for not doing the right thing. There’s not a guy this team that we don’t believe in that we don’t think can get better. Some guys want to be stubborn. Some guys want to keep fighting it and if they keep fighting the system, then they won’t play. I mean it’s plain and simple. We have a proven formula here that we believe in and the quicker guys buy into it, the quicker they will play.”
On where Santiago Vescovi has made strides
“I think the big thing with him is that he’s deceptive. I think when you look at certain guys on the team, they get down and guard that’s impressive but he’s a very deceptive and very intelligent defender. Same thing offensively. Terrific with pass fakes, ball fakes. Quicker than you think. He understands angles better than most guys, but defensively again, he understands the mental preparation, he understands what he needs to do. He does his work early. Very clever in the gaps. He’s in that gap and you think he’s kind of just there but he’s playing, he’s active in the gaps most of the time. Offensively he has a solid idea of what we are trying to get done. What is good about him, I think as time goes on, it’s going to give him a chance to play off the ball too which I think will help him because he’s so good with moving without the ball. It’s more that we can get guys settled in, handling the ball where you can get him away from it is going to help him add to his game.”