Roeder said:

That sums up an inexperienced, but extremely talented team in a nutshell.

Don't get too down Illini fans. If everyone is healthy I think you win @ Duke. Brad will have this team focused and the ACC is so soft this year Duke won't know what hit them. After that, the Illini will be everyone's Final 4 pick again. Maybe I'm crazy, but I could see it happening.

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That game is in NYC, not at Duke.

proudopete said:

Top 4 seed here

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where did L'Ville come from? saw them last yr and was one of worst teams I saw. So this yr I see they are TOP 25. I know they got Chukky in the off season but don't pay attention to their team this yr

DrEss said:

Hopefully the students hit the pregame heavier than they did vs OSU, and really blow the roof off. Needed tonight.

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didn't sound like the typical Mackey crowd, at least on TV

Bilal Marshall will be coming back to Purdue to be WR assistant coach.

SKYDOG said:

Every circumstance is different. Sometimes things will go wrong no matter how much preparation is planned. Others times like when Trump was shot, it was a lack of preparation and communication. People are fired when things get “jacked up”.

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So John Simpson could not of prepared differently to prevent Reagan from getting almost kilt.

BNIBoiler said:

I’m not talking about Cheatle. I’m talking about John Simpson, the secret service director that filed to protect Ronald Reagan. Since it’s not DEI. What is it called when a white jack stuff up?

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Every circumstance is different. Sometimes things will go wrong no matter how much preparation is planned. Others times like when Trump was shot, it was a lack of preparation and communication. People are fired when things get “jacked up”.

proudopete said:

Did you see the ending to that A&M game last night. Talk about a heartbreaker

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A&M's Buzz Williams is a guy who would scare the hell out of me if he was somehow lured to Gloomington... I'm very impressed with how his teams play.

Slow down their bigs and run their guards off the three line. Force them to turn the ball over and hit our threes.

Simple right?

krf3632 said:

Believe Ryan Kerrigan is on Washington staff too.

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As a resident of the DMV, I find that Blough's and Kerrigan's prominence on the Commanders staff has made that team MUCH more appealing --- a welcome departure of the $%it-show days of 'lil' Napoleon Danny Snyder...

Proof is in the results, as they say.

SKYDOG said:

Kimberly Cheatle was a white woman in charge of the secret service appointed by Biden in 2022. She worked for Pepsi before being hired. Prior to Pepsi she worked for the secret service.

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I’m not talking about Cheatle. I’m talking about John Simpson, the secret service director that filed to protect Ronald Reagan. Since it’s not DEI. What is it called when a white jack stuff up?

DwaynePurvis00 said:

Uhhhhh guarantee ole miss has as much, if not more money than IU. And kids don’t care about brand. I’m shocked you still think they do...but I guess you are an IU fan.

But If they did care about brand, Ace and Dylan would not have gone to Rutgers.

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Indianas NIL for basketball is like Top 5.

Purdue misses Zach’s finding and passing out to the perimeter shooters this season. That definitely helped getting more open 3 attempts.

SKYDOG said:

Kimberly Cheatle was a white woman in charge of the secret service appointed by Biden in 2022. She worked for Pepsi before being hired. Prior to Pepsi she worked for the secret service.

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I've heard audio, but have not seen video of Sharpton howling at the moon as a result of equality rather than favoritism. Also the other rent a riot, Jesse Jackson...not heard a thing, but sure there has to be something out there so they can keep the cash cow going.

ChoiceBeef said:

We have to take 3s and get that action moving early. I think we have to run offense around getting Wolf and Golden into mismatches putting them into defensive disadvantages which means driving to the hoop for Loyer, Braden and Cox etc.

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It seems to me anecdotally that more players are putting up "tough" 2 point shots this year on many teams. I contribute that to being ran off the 3 point line and not getting to the rim as much as a team would like and sometimes further compounded by the clock dictating that they must try to score NOW. I would love to see Purdue shooting well behind the arc AND getting open enough to actually do so. This is one of those times you would love a 4 man that could stroke it AND drive the ball, but I'll be happy if the four man can just stroke it.

Berg is getting 0 playing time. If played, I hope he has the best game of his life and can play physical without picking up fouls...and produce that three point shooting in video...

BNIBoiler said:

DEI this. DEI that. This is getting old. What about the white men in the secret service protecting Ronald Reagan. They failed that day Reagan got shot. So since they were white men what do you call their failure? Wasn’t DEI was it? White men fail also.

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Kimberly Cheatle was a white woman in charge of the secret service appointed by Biden in 2022. She worked for Pepsi before being hired. Prior to Pepsi she worked for the secret service.

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Gman544 said:

Tough game with the two bigs, athleticism and some good guards with size. Big game as well. If Purdue loses, the race for the BIG would be in Michigan. Purdue needs a couple of things to happen to win, 1. Shoot at least 35% from three, 2. keep Furst and TK out of foul trouble and 3. keep turnovers within reason. It would be nice to get one and of their bigs in foul trouble.

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It also needs at least one of Colvin or Heide to do something more than they've been doing.

We can't have both of them disappear.

pubill said:

With OSU loss this is biggest game of year. We will be 3-1/2 to 4 pt favs , but I am very concerned that this is our worst matchup in Big 10. They are biggest team, with 2 talented 7 footers with one of them who plays like Braden. Not sure how Furst and TKR shuts this down. They run PNR with these 2 bigs only often . Wolfe is an amazing playmaker for a 7 footer. Typically I always love Painter the game after a loss, but just don’t think we match up here, others thoughts?

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Does Purdue perimeter beat Michigan's inside game and how does Trey do in the short roll or at the rim? A concern for me is the automatic switching on 1-4 where too many times a Giccari, CJ and Braden are on a big that heads to the rim. It has NOT hurt Purdue near as much as it could have for whatever reasons, but that is a concern! I am unaware of Michigan's three ball, but if Purdue can go under screens then there will be less switching. I think Caleb is good enough on the perimeter to make it more difficult for Wolf to get in the lane off the dribble and front enough to hinder the high low. Cam giving up a few inches "should" be able to do this as well...and if Cam can stroke it, that takes away some help on Trey inside and so Purdue could use one of the better games from Cam. I look for them to take the ball against Trey, because if Purdue sits him due to fouls...Purdue most likely loses an inside threat and then the only hope is that small ball is hitting behind the arc.

FWIW, I watched Myles stroking it before and half time of the game and it sure looks like he jumps higher than he practices on his shot. I'm not close enough to the court to know for certain, but his warmup looks like an easy 4 inch jump or such where he appears to be balanced and more relaxed...somewhat similar to Jay Edwards who Knight said was a lazy shooter, but we all know could stroke it in a game

FiveWeight said:

Apparently earlier this month Jaden Ivey broke his fibula and was carted off the court. Hurts to see, but hopefully his play this year cemented a long future in the league after his recovery. He’s averaged 18/4/4 this year for the Pistons.

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this was a brutal injury that he was lucky was only a broken fibula

In this morning’s updated bracket, ESPN dropped Purdue from the 2 line to the 3, after losing to OSU. Win impressively tonight, and based on the rest of this weekend’s games, they could find there way back to the 2 soon.

Lunardi

BB62 said:

Hey, if you don't want to talk about it just say so. How do you communicate with people who want to hide from the truth? You answer with emojis or non sequiturs. Just cowards that can't bring themselves to say anything against that doesn't fit their politics.

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We’re laughing at you, not with you.

northside100 said:

I'm sure it will come across as an excuse but I didn't think Purdue got a great whistle at home, particularly in the second half. I thought that Thorton got some calls where he just put his head down and went to the rim that could have easily been no calls. Braden got trucked on the last inbounds play and didn't get the call.

To their credit, OSU played super physical on both ends, and Purdue, IMO, didn't match them. Purdue missed a ton of makeable shots and OSU hit some tough ones, but Purdue still wins if they don't get outhustled and outmuscled in the second half.

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I do not have any data whatsoever on highstepper, but it seems to me that Purdue struggle when he refs...and he "seems" to be doing more games this year in the BIG. It has been expressed that he is a fan of Duke as many are...and so he may like the more physical, athletic game...and none of this has any empirical support either way. Right or wrong...I don't like seeing him do Purdue games

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We'll never know. But I think him sitting so much got him out of sync and he never got it back in the 2nd half. He is so used to playing all the minutes, it's very unusual for him to sit so much. Broke his rhythm, I think. I'm not saying it is the sole reason we lost by any stretch. I just think we would have been better served to just let him keep playing as normal. On to Michigan!

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If I recall Matt did put him back in twice for a possession...maybe two. No doubt had Purdue not maintained the lead, he would be back in the game. Tonight will be a tougher game, but expect Purdue to come out more focused...which hopefully results in less misses when open, more 50-50 balls and so forth

BB62 said:

Or what you don't want to hear. Or you do know about it but don't want to admit trump has flip flopped once again, this time on HB1 visas. Or that it flies in the face of AMERICA FIRST and takes jobs away from Americans. Or that many MAGAites don't like the idea of him caving on his promise to get all the illegals out of the country. Or that he's bowing down to his billionaire business buddies like First Citizen Musk.

You don't "need to be told"? How about being informed? Don't your news sources tell you about such things? You........ the king of accusing dems of only believing what the liberal media tells them. You aren't any different.

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relax Bob...we shall see the actions later to have a better understanding. Long before we found out your media sources were all complicit in lying to the public, the media was talking about Trump getting a divorce...all due to seeing him not holding his wife's hand when walking.

Top 4 seed here

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