Ronnie Burrell Media Availability | July 11, 2025 | Portland Trail Blazers

Ronnie Burrell Media Availability | July 11, 2025 | Portland Trail Blazers

All right. So, uh, Ronnie, first off, just your your thoughts on the team’s performance in general today. Uh, I was happy with it. Very happy with it. Um, we played our side of the basketball. We played fast. We played hard. Uh, the most impressive thing to me was we turned him over 19 times cuz we were pressuring the ball, which is how we play. And we also had 25 assists. So, the unselfishes we played with made the game fun. Obviously, Hansen’s performance tonight, I think, really eye opening for people. What did you think about his performance? I think he played um how some of us expected him to play. He showed a lot of facets to his game. We know he’s very versatile and skilled and I just like the fact that he was having fun. He was loose and relaxed. He played tough and uh he made some amazing plays tonight. Came into the pract or at the first practice you said you formulating a plan. You didn’t really put him in a position where he was demanding the ball or anything. Everything he did was just kind of in the flow. Is that kind of what you want to see from him? It was in the flow. We have an unselfish team and he’s also unselfish. So he created for guys and guys created for him. So it kind of happened organically. We put him in some positions to get the ball where he he kind of likes it or where we figuring that he likes it and then we let his skill set and um you know his basketball IQ kind of take over, you know, and uh he played really well. So I’m happy for him. I hope he feel good about how he played. He showed well for himself. It’s actually a pretty physical game. How you like his uh effort on fearless and do you think it tells some of his characteristic on you know he’s fighting within the paint? He he was fearless man. He didn’t have a problem with uh the fouling early in the game. the physicality, you know, he plays with a smile on his face, but he doesn’t back down from contact, which I love. You know, he’ll need that going forward. So, he played really tough for those passes. Did you saw that creativity within the practice and can you expect that like uh his leadership? Well, I I had heard about it. We saw it in practice and I just we all wanted to see it for ourselves. So, he made some great feeds tonight. Um his teammates kind of are getting used to playing with him, too. So, they know that if they cut, he’s going to find them, you know. So the style of player with him is is kind of a pass and cut kind of style of play. We have some offenses that have hit him really well. Is it kind of encouraging for you even even despite the language barrier to see him like out there calling stuff out like on offense like during the like is that something he’s been doing a lot in practice? He does. He’s he’s not a shy young man. You know, he knows what we’re doing. He understands quite a bit of stuff and he’s not afraid to talk. So he helps. He’s very smart and um we we understand each other. His teammates understand him as well. I was ask about Rion as well. Just your thoughts on his game tonight. Uh he was really aggressive. Rion, he um he was aggressive. He um but he let the game come to him. Um I will tell him I told him I want to see him crash the glass and rebound more, but I think he did a great job protecting the rim. He did a great job finding his teammates.

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