Jay Triano

Or they want to run stuff, but they specifically don't want to get into sets.

So the time that you could actually sit down with the whiteboard, some coaches use a tablet, nor use a whiteboard, Jay Triano out there on the whiteboard.

Drawing them up.

That's Blaze's assistant, Jay Triano.

Back.

Back for another stint.

Or for the second year.

Because maybe not so much last year, but the year he took over for Mike, the circumstances that led to Doug Christie being the head coach, Jay Triano, Luke Lox, those guys, they did not They did not mess with Doug.

If you recall that year, Doug was talking about, oh, it stops with me.

The buck stops with me.

It was Brian, the one training camp I went to.

Brian was there with Jay Triano was the assistant as well.

And, um, Lenny Wilkins was the head coach.

Head coach.

Oh, no, absolutely loved it.

First of all, Jay Triano gave me the opportunity to be there for a year.

It was fantastic.

B.C. Brian Colangelo was at Eversley.

We didn't, uh, Jay made the mistake of putting me in charge of defense, and we didn't really stop anybody that year.

But I always thought he got a bad deal in a couple.

But Jay Triano is a very, very talented coach.

And, you know, obviously he's got on.

I get it as well.

Jay Triano's on that bench too.

He was the coach here for a long time.

Exactly.

And that play seems to be set up to me is that Holiday has a couple reads, and the last read is Dame, you know, moving, uh, moving to his right and coming off a screen to, to get a three-pointer, and if he do- it doesn't work, you flow right into a pick and roll, right? Like, it's, it, it has, it's ...

I, I've liked the Mike Norrie, Jay Triano experience so far, and I think that was an example of it.

But the reason that Toumani Camara gets that dunk is 'cause Dame sets a good screen and runs hard the other way.

He's running away from the rim.

Uh, M- Monty Williams coached the team for four seasons, and before that, Phoenix had one season of Igor Kokoshkov.

Before that, it was Earl Watson who started oh and three in his second year at coa- as, as head coach, but the losses were so catastrophic that Jay Triano was handed the reins.

So having Jordan Ott back for year two is significant in and of itself Now comes the challenge, uh, 'cause his, his role as head coach changes this year.

Ott's job last season was to fortify the identity established by the front office while implementing his analytical approach on the court.

Broken down, talking hoops and X's and O's.

But like I think that little flow is just that's where Mike Inori, Jay Triano's, Blazer's assistant coach, Jay Triano, who's likely doing a bunch of working with the offense a bunch.

Like those guys being getting everyone to play.

You know, you can't always call set plays, right? You don't you're not gonna be able to come down and say, hey, we're going to run elbow four, fist three, thumb two.