Voodoo Barn magic
Thatâs your play if youâre Painter? No screen to get him free?
There was a screen. It likely fell apart somewhere
Oh, Minnesota. So good at home, so iffy anywhere else.
Bizarre pass by Stefanovic.
Feel like they could have set up a better play with dribbling it up court with 7 seconds left and running Stefanovic off of a screen or two
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Benefit of hindsight but I almost think a quick set to Trevion for a close 2, maybe an and-one if Robbins makes a bonehead mistake, then a quick foulâŚprobably not enough time, idk.
Definitely not enough time. Thatâs the Alabama situation all over again. I would have given them a two if I were Minnesota.
The previous play with the Trevion travel was my favorite SLOB play with the clock low. Brad Stevenâs âWinnerâ
Itâs interesting to see Purdue fans on Reddit and such hype up their team as a definite Big Ten mega contender for the next three yeras because of all the freshmen playing and doing fairly ok. Maybe itâs just me, but I could see this core being pretty average too. I watch the young guys and itâs often, âWow, theyâre pretty ready to play for lower ranked college freshmen/redshirt freshmenâ rather than âWow, itâs obvious that these players have high ceilings and are going to continue to improve drastically.â Next year seems like the golden year with senior Williams and Sasha, junior Thompson, and sophomore everyone else. And I guess I just donât really view their freshmen as having very high ceilings to the point where itâs a much better team than this year. I donât know, I could be totally off. Painter is a good coach so they have that going for them.
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I think I agree with the reddit people. 10 Boilermakers have played 24% of minutes or more and none of them are seniors. It seems like a very deep and talented roster that is learning on the job.
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It does put me at some ease. Purdue still gets Nebraska twice and MSU and Indiana at home.
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I do wonder how much upside these guys have though. Their juniors are who they are. I guess a couple of the freshmen have potential. I think they are a top half of the league team, just not sure they have enough to be more.
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Hard to say for sure where all their ceilings are, but Edey is decent even though he was a project so improvement can be expected there. Newman looks like the next great Purdue shooter. Morton was about top 100 guy and I think has had injuries. Ivey is the swing guy as far as their potential goes. Heâs doing pretty darn well for a freshman. He seems to have a solid ceiling as a top 100 guy. If he can improve then thatâs how they become a contender next year.
They also have 2 top 60 guys coming in. So I can see why they are bullish.
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As much as the Purdue bench was losing its mind on the travel call (claiming a push caused the travel), theyâll watch the tape and just shrug. Meanwhile, I guarantee the officials left the floor seriously wondering whether they missed something major. Thatâs always the feeling when a bench goes crazy on a play. Fortunately, the crew will watch the tape and breathe a sigh of relief that they got it right.
Itâs a funny thing with coach/bench reactions. It seems like when thereâs a reaction like that, you canât wait to watch the tape, then you find that it was a pretty easy call that you got right. Then youâll notice a few that were questionable or that you flat out missed, and there was no bench reaction. You often end up wondering why coaches complain about plays that were simple calls, but donât complain when they would have every right to question you. Not to say that coaches are clueless or anything like that, because they arenât; itâs just weird and kind of funny.
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Big ten just does not care about Nebraskaâs feelings lol
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Just throwing them to the wolves to let teams rack up wins
Which proves. . . I dunno what.
So basically the Big Ten is going with BQâs âparade Nebraska around the conferenceâ model.
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