Especially when the small guard is much more interested in making contact instead of making the basket. Davison would have a basically uncontested layup and jump sideways to make contact with someone. I was disgusted watching his theatrics. No because it was dirty; more so because it was so dumb.
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I was actually waiting for Davison to invent the nut punch turn around jump shot - quick nut tap as he posts up, followed by the defender backing up in pain, just in time for Davison to turn and chuck up his 40% 8 footer.
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I figured one of Hall or Bingham would break out last year. Not sure why Hall didn’t, he seems to have the requisite tools to be a decent big, whereas Bingham looks like a lottery pick but seems lost on the court. Wouldn’t surprise me if the light comes on for one and a Hall-Hauser-Brown-Christie-Walker starting 5 is really quite good, though not a lot of size inside to deal with Dickinson, TDJ, Cockburn or Williams/Edey, so maybe it’ll be the kind of year where they’re a 9 seed in the tournament but win a couple games with better matchups.
Instagram told me that Brad Davison hit a three to beat the halftime buzzer in Wisconsin’s exhibition game tonight. I’m sure Andy Katz was strutting around the BTN studio like he’d just won the lottery.
I watched the Illinois exhibition against a ranked D2 team last night, at least I had it on in the background. Curbelo had a triple double, except the third category was turnovers. Trent Frazier banged his shoulder early and Williams/Hutcherson also didn’t play because of small injuries so it wasn’t their full squad. Overall they looked… pretty good but not incredible. I think they made a point of not just giving it to Kofi every trip. IUP made a bunch of midrange jumpers to keep the score pretty close for 30 minutes. Grandison and Plummer can shoot and Hawkins looks bouncier. I came away slightly worried about Curbelo making the leap but it’s one game. In addition to the ten turnovers he fouled out (including a technical), was 4-8 at the line, and I don’t believe he made a three pointer.
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Giving up 79 to a D2 team. 
(I reserve the right to rescind this comment if Michigan gives up a bunch of points to Wayne St.)
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That’s what I was thinking, but then there are three Maryland guys in the 11-20 group. I guess this is just Katz’s secret formula.
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He’s 21, so while he’s a good player who has some Franz Wagner “forward who can do a bit of everything” I wonder if he’ll improve a bit less than people expect and just be seen as having improved because he’s playing 10 minutes more a night.
The younger McCaffrey really popped to me last year. Toussaint might be one of the big swing players in the Big 10 because he’s fast and they should have really good spacing, but he needs to make a leap to capitalize on it and keep them from getting bogged down in the halfcourt.
Toussaint is not good
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getting nipped by an ed cooley squad cant be a good sign
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I gotta say I’m not clear on where the Keegan Murray hype comes from. He’s a good defender and a good athlete. But he is a full two years older than his class would suggest (4 months older than Hunter Dickinson - Dickinson is naturally an old junior, Murray a young senior), and 6 months younger than senior Brandon Johns, if he had stayed in his proper year he’d be a young senior. At least Dickinson took that maturity and dominated. Murray was…a pretty good role player.
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Still room on the Purdue Is Overhyped bandwagon.
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It’s true he’s old so a leap isn’t as likely as some are making out, but if he’d kept the same numbers at 27 minutes as he got at 18 he’d have thrown up 11 and 8 with 2 blocks and 1 steal a game. He’s probably not going to be a 15+ point guy, but I think he’d probably beat out Johns for a starting spot with extra rebounding, versatility and mobility.
But yeah, if his shooting doesn’t improve he definitely won’t be the first rounder some are projecting. He’s sort of the opposite of a guy like Liddell, who should be the best forward in the Big 10 but doesn’t project as an NBA bench guy, whereas Murray does if his shot (which people say looks good) pans out.
Yeah not saying he’s bad at all, but I don’t think he’s capable of being a good teams best player.
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Box score:
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The minute loads here suggest the two teams were not using this scrimmage for the same purpose.
The big news would be that Edey and Williams minutes loads suggest they mostly didn’t share the floor, save maybe 4 minutes, which would be the opposite of what Painter has been insisting.
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It was OT and their minutes equal 45:00 exactly so yeah.
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Yeah PC had their starters in way more. No one on Purdue played over 30 minutes
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Oh so 0 then
Still, Ivey, Stefanovic, Furst all under 30 in an OT game strikes me as limited workload.
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Maybe, but Purdue probably is a team that is gonna try to spread the minutes load more than usual?
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