PITTSBURGH — Zack Austin played effortlessly his best diversion since joining the Pitt Jaguars against Virginia Tech. He set season-highs in bounce back and pieces and included a scoring punch as well but it wasn’t anything to compose domestic around in his book.
“Fair playing defense, playing off of others,” Austin, in his to begin with season with Pitt after exchanging from Tall Point, said. “It wasn’t truly nothing uncommon, for genuine.”
Austin is recorded at fair 6’7 but he was a ruling drive interior the paint. He gotten 14 bounce back – four hostile and 10 cautious – and blocked five shots. He protected all over the floor – on any given ownership he might be found fronting centers Lynn Kidd and Mylyjeal Poteat or chasing Sean Pedulla or Seeker Catoor around screens on the border.
He’s carved out a part as a stick fellow for the Pumas, detecting what the group needs and filling that require as best he can on any given night. Austin was a diverse player at Tall Point – a high-volume shooter and scorer in expansion to a productive shot-blocker. Lowe knows he can still be a star for Pitt, fair in a distinctive part.
Man, I saw a insane competitor who can truly do this on any given night on the off chance that he needed to. So I’m attending to take that part. I’m aiming to tell him he has got to do this each night. But that’s what he does. That’s what we anticipate out of him. That’s what he anticipates out of himself. So him doing that today evening time fair truly appeared at what level he can play all the time and how he can influence the diversion.
The Jaguars accept they are a distinctive group when Austin is at his best and head coach Jeff Capel said he’s competent of being at his best each single night.
“I thought he was huge. I truly, truly did. I thought protectively, a few of the squares that he had, the athletic plays that he had,” Capel said. “Like Jaland said, he’s skilled. It’s fair getting that engine going all the time, and ideally typically the begin of that for him.”
