Zag Sacre Ready For ‘11-12 Season

Robert Sacre was in ninth grade the first time Gonzaga assistant coach Tommy Lloyd saw him play basketball. “What you saw obviously is he had the great body, great energy level but he was pretty raw,” Lloyd said. “And you could see his personality back then.” In other words, all the things GU followers have witnessed from the 7-foot Canadian in his first four seasons – he redshirted in 2009 with a broken foot after playing in five games – with the Bulldogs. Roughly a year later, Lloyd was in a Vancouver, B.C., gym, again watching Sacre. “He scored a basket and he ran up court and put his fingers together and made a letter ‘Z’ on his chest as he ran by where I was sitting,” Lloyd recalled. “Afterward, I said, ‘What was that?’ He said, ‘The sign of the Zags.’ It was all him. I knew we were in pretty good shape”/ Jim Meehan , SR. More here. (SR photo: Dan Pelle)

• Gonzaga, EWU kick off season at Kennel tonight /Jim Meehan, SR

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