This year's Gonzaga squad 'built to hit'

When coach Mark Few uses the word "finesse" to describe last year's edition of the Gonzaga Bulldogs, he doesn't quite assign to it all the distasteful connotations a football coach might. It isn't necessarily a four-letter word to him. A little finesse can be a wonderful tool for a basketball player. Robert Sacre is Gonzaga's leading rebounder. But, yeah, you can have too much of a good thing. This is not a problem for the current Zags. They have several skilled players, but no one will use the word "finesse" to describe them at any point this season. "We're built to hit, I'll tell you that," Few said. "I noticed that in practice. "I think we've got some different avenues we could go. We can play off our brawn. Last year, we just had to play off our skill, and we were really skilled." The 2008-09 Zags were out-toughed just often enough to end up with a No. 4 NCAA Tournament seed – in the same brac...