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CANADIAN CONTENT: Jay Triano in the Canadian media
Written by Romy Aquino   
Friday, 28 August 2009 08:32

Raptors coach, Jay Triano has been making his Canadian media rounds this past week.  Most recently, he was on CBC's The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos (link via Raptors Republic). One cool fact from this interview was that Jay Triano was friends with Canadian icon, Terry Fox, during his time at Simon Frasier University. The interview overall is alright, it's not done in the women's clothing section at a Wal-Mart but....just kidding... The interview is very cool as it highlights the Canadian aspects of the Raptors' coach.

Jay Triano also did an interview with TSN's Tim Chisolm.  It's a great extensive interview with two parts on TSN.ca, here are a couple of highlights and the links to the full interview:

 

PART I - click here

"TC: So then when did you feel comfortable that you'd be coming back as the head coach?

JT: I didn't feel very comfortable for a while.

TC: Really?

JT: No. I can't say that I was confident that I was gonna come back and I wasn't confident that I was gonna get let go. I didn't really know. You know, Bryan was always supportive through the tough times and I just kept coaching. That's the one thing I'll always do, I kept coaching. It was my job to be there and I was there working hard, whether we were trying to win that last game to get into the Playoffs or whether it meant nothing. I'm gonna prepare our guys all the way through and make sure that we're ready. I know I was under the spotlight but at the same time that's what I do. It's what I did when I was an assistant coach and I'm not gonna change. I'm going to work as hard as I can to try and make us successful. If I need to bring in people that will help me and augment my style, I'm not afraid to do that, either. "

PART 2 - click here

"Tim Chisholm: So then moving on to a guy like Turkoglu, who has a tendency to disappear from games when he doesn't have the ball in his hands, is there an opportunity in Toronto to let him run the point guard spot like he would do in Orlando?

Jay Triano: Absolutely, yeah. There are a couple of things I'll give you right off the bat: one, if he rebounds the basketball then he brings it up like he did in Orlando, and Jose is excellent off of the ball so he'll know where to space. The other thing that they did is they would run what they called 'thumb-down, five-special', which is just a zipper to bring him up to the top and then it's a high screen-roll for him. Well, now we've got Jose on the side, they zipper him up and get him [Turkoglu] at the top, spread the floor, and he goes. The day that we made the deal I said to Micah [Nori, assistant coach, NBA scout] and our coaches "thumb-down, five special", we're adding that one, put that one in our playbook! And I like the way that we run it equally as well as the way Orlando did it. They'd just zipper him up, it's a high screen with Dwight [Howard] and then Dwight rolls. Well, we're gonna put CB in that and they lifted Rashard Lewis, so we're gonna lift Andrea, we'll put Jose in one corner and Belinelli in the other corner – who are they gonna help off of on the screen-roll? That's why we're just gonna roll CB down, with shooters all around him, and he's going to have a chance to go right to the basket. It plays to his strength, it plays to Hedo's strength as a playmaker, to Jose's by catching the ball and making a play.

Jose's probably going to have to get used to not having the ball in his hands as much, but I don't think that that's a problem."


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