BoilerDaddy said:

Take away his three point shooting struggles and Gicarri had a very good tournament. He plays with great effort. I can see why he is solidly in the rotation. I think that the shooting will improve as well once he gets past the freshman nerves because he’s taking good shots.

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I like that at least, he was willing to pull the trigger.....when he starts knocking 'em down at a better clip, going to put more opposition in bigger dilemmas. He's also learning on the fly on defense, but Painter definitely put him out there a couple of times to try and slow down Ole Miss/Didn't Miss wings in the 2nd half.

New Pal Boiler said:

Really ?

where the GM is in charge of everything? Coaching staff, roster, etc ?

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Seems like a way to get a big name around the program. However. It feels like the government. Bloating the athletic department and blurring responsibility to the point where its difficult to know whos to blame. Lastly, wheres the money come from. We cant afford to fire the worst coach in the b10 by a mile then we shouldnt be adding people to the payroll.

TKR IS THAT GUY…8th best player in the nation according to KenPom. Here’s how his stats rank vs the other bigs in B1G play so far and I’d wager that he has gone against the toughest non conf so far:

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Poprudy said:

Very true. Broome is very skillful.

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He’s a load. I bet paint lets him shoot it from 3 all he wants…may even let berg go against him to tire him out/use a few fouls.

Gonna be a fun one but we got 3 tough ones before!

PaBoiler78 said:

he was my pick for the player to have a break out year

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I was yelling it at the top of my lungs all last year 😂

They’re technically not supposed to but it happens for sure.

Don’t worry, Myles is not going anywhere. No way his fam would let him and I’m not sure why he would.

Boiler Up Time said:

They should be a 2 seed in my opinion, but it may come in as a 3 which was their seeding last year. I'm not sure it makes a substantial difference either way.

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Purdue looks like a team that is pretty set until the Sweet 16, but their struggles against those top 7-8 teams will make a breakthrough tricky.

Chi-Boiler said:

Woj retires from ESPN to be GM at alma mater

Adrian Wojnarowski has agreed to become the GM of the men's basketball program at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure.

www.espn.com

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I don’t believe Woj has total control of all basketball operations.

It’s very simple…Paint read all of our posts from this past summer that said our best lineup would be Smith, Loyer, Colvin, Heide and TKR. 😂 😂 😂

But in all seriousness, I think Myles was a bit timid and walking on eggshells a bit because he didn’t want to make a
Mistake that would lead to reduced mins. I think once he figured out that wasn’t happening this year, he has been able to play more relaxed.

With Heide, man I don’t know. I’m not sure if coaches got after him and told him to wake up or what, but it was VERY concerning the first few games we all watched. Not sure if he was hurt or didn’t want to make the wrong decision, but he seems more relaxed now too and playing his game.

Going to be a toughhh stretch from here on out and looking forward to seeing how these guys do. Hope they keep it up because they raise the ceiling for the team greatly.

Bleedinggoldandblack said:

Yesterday Myles started the game with a break away dunk and ended it with a fabulous two point in the paint , both of these guys have suddenly had the switch turned on ..
Was interested in your guys take on what happened from the rather quiet preseason first 3 games till post Marquette?

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I think you answered your own question. The switch turned on. I see it at work with new hires. We throw a lot at them, follow up and support them and sometimes someone struggles to hit their efficiency rate. Then one day they get there. They always say they don’t know what happened. Something just clicked.

POTFHBTFU said:

It’s early he needs to develop and let the speed come to him. And get conditioned. By end of year you hope he makes big strides. We will also play bigger teams and we will need him. We won’t be able to get away with Heide at the 4 as much as we did the past 3 games.

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I’m not so sure. Just like we will have to adjust, so will they. They will need to have their big guy guard Heide and pretty sure they won’t be able to keep up. So it’ll be interesting to see how we counter with two bigs on the other team. Worked well against Bama but they don’t play defense 😂 so against teams like IU (they don’t play defense either or rebound), Michigan, Nebraska etc that play with two 6’9+ guys in the front court, we may need to do some adjusting.

seminolesboilers said:

If Burgess plays little…it seems that he Is wasting an eligible year…not redshirting.

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Once you play any minutes, you give up the red shirt. With DJs injury we def need him and it’ll be great experience. Hope paint starts giving him 4-7 min more a game in the next few weeks

northside100 said:

Yes, I’m a complete dick. I’ll continue to be an asshole but I do appreciate your posts and wish you the best.

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Same

seminolesboilers said:

I think Smith benefited greatly from the big screens set by Edey…

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Still gotta knock em down though. And he hasn’t hit the open ones as much as he did last year. He has tried fading more and while he can hit it, he’s making it hard on himself. Pretty sure he will start to get more open looks once teams go to drop coverage more to stop TKR on the dive from the PnR.

My only hope now:
Sunday press conference from bobinski to announce Walters firing and hiring of Tulane coach and entire staff

Chi-Boiler said:

More schools are doing this, on the football side and the basketball side.

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Really ?

where the GM is in charge of everything? Coaching staff, roster, etc ?

I would suggest we offer Mr Brees a similar position at Purdue…

Quix0te said:

If USC beats Notre Dame, does a two-loss ND get in over a one-loss IU?

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It does. They beat some good teams (A&M and Louisville). Also indiana doesn’t show up. You can get tix to todays game 50 yard line for $13. Indiana has bad tv ratings too. Only 1M watched the Washington game. No way does big ten get a 4th team that is indiana and ND get left out. It probably means ND loses their home game though.

WHS70 said:

Kiffin throws the ball a lot as his current QB just became the leading passer in history passing Eli Manning at Ole Miss and has another QB in the NFL he coached at Ole Miss. IMHO he fits the bill to a T and maybe interested in getting away from the Big Dawgs in the SEC.

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It was directed at the Georgia tech HC comment

It’s early he needs to develop and let the speed come to him. And get conditioned. By end of year you hope he makes big strides. We will also play bigger teams and we will need him. We won’t be able to get away with Heide at the 4 as much as we did the past 3 games.

Burgess may have conditioning problems. I am not sure, but I do know he just needs to get more game exposure before he will be ready to play any significant minutes in games like Ole Miss. He will get there. We need him, because Berg is not the answer.

I think Painter has put the most talented and experienced five on the floor with Kaufman-Renn, Heidi, Colvin, Loyer, Smith. I think Harris and Cox and Burgess are talented as well…but lack the experience as freshman. Going forward…the only question is the bench support and college development of the freshmen.