Could be?? I know the NBA has been having issues as well. You might be correct with the speed of the game today and how most sports are geared for a faster pace and offensive oriented game that the human eye and/or the age of official's? Can't keep up.
I'm not equating close games to being tough - I'm looking at the players on the floor. We don't have anyone who can slow down, much less stop, Bradley or Miller from Bama; Ramey is lanky and athletic - it took Tubelis getting in major foul trouble, on the road, for Stanford to pull that off; Illinois has the pieces to beat anyone on a good day; nobody from our roster could slow down Wilson on even his average day. We need long athletic, tough dudes.
Just because your team wasn't tough enough to handle Zona. Doesn't mean Purdue isn't and quit saying "our".
my eyes needed readers around 40 or so. There is just soooooo much jammed packed with the few seconds allowed that there is tooooo much going on to see what is needed. Isolating Zach as an example where there is a post and a repost allows the ref to see Zach better than quick arms a swinging and a double doing it. Could you imagine one feed after another for 25 seconds rather than 6 or so how it would draw the officials eyes to be more focused on the post play?
Thanks for your contribution - let's continue to embrace mediocrity...as always, criticism on this board is not allowed. #sheeple
do you really think "mediocrity" is the real descriptive word to use in attempting to describe a team that almost the whole season has been rated number 1...a team that has lost 3 games...all of which a couple of things different it wins some of those...or all of those. I rarely see teams beat a team that is viewed as "mediocrity" and then storm the court if they beat the team that is mediocre. Matter of fact I can't recall ever seeing that. Disappointed, okay I understand. However, this is very much a team filled with youth
Mediocrity in March. We sealed our fates this summer when we sat on our hands when it was clear we needed more firepower at G.
March isn't here. Those games hopefully are on neutral courts. What do you think will be different that what this team has faced with officials and teams or do you expect a lot of swallowing the whistles which may happen...or the teams do something different than what Purdue has faced. I don't know what to expect other than ref might allow a lot of stuff to go on against Zach. Team may or may not shoot well. Hope no press is anymore effective than we see in Maryland after spending more focus on it. I have no idea what to expect other than Purdue needs to play solid the first three games and then a week of really playing well. If Purdue can win at Maryland that is a bigger win than the loss at Northwestern even though they count the same in teh standings
This has been my concern all season. Boilers generated plenty of wide open looks today.
That and how teams are allowed to defend (foul) Edey and more and more as the season goes on. There seems to be no cylinder rule for Zach when he has the ball.
Or is it? Purdue might have been in double bonus a lot sooner meaning every non call robbed them of a chance at two points that aren’t guarded. Had they gone to the line and missed 8 or 9 FTs down the stretch I’d say that’s not on the refs.
LOL. You mean we should have gone to the transfer portal for new starting guards, right? Big fast guys who have great handles, and who could start on the best team in the country, right? That strategy has worked so well for Ohio $tate. You really don’t understand who is in the portal and what they can offer, nor do you understand the kids we do have and what they are capable of.
Newman defended better than a lot of guys on the floor in white yesterday. Had a couple of rebounds, an assist, a steal, and 2 blocks (one of which was called a foul but was clean). Most importantly, no turnovers. A couple of open looks didn’t fall, but they were good looks and not forced. Newman wasn’t the problem yesterday.
Indeed. I was very impressed by Newman's play last night. He was playing incredibly inspired defense, but just didn't get the benefit of the calls (unlike Audige on the other end of the floor). Although his shots weren't falling I couldn't be more proud of him. The dude is a fighter. Eventually, he will start connecting on those 3's.
So, what you're saying is Purdue is a 1 man team. If a team can neutralize Edey in the tourney, it'll be a short tourney run.
similar to the Terps at Purdue game, lot of bad calls w/ a game in the 50's but the difference was Terps guards shot 3 - 21 or 22 from 3. Also the wide open 3's killed us. If Jenk's didn't make the 3 3's vs osu that a loss. We've been flirting w/ disaster for awhile now w/ close games the Neb, Mich,osu, msu, maryland and have been fortunate
don't remember Loyer shooting from the outside except for that forced late in the shot clock one in the 2nd half
The shot clock thing didn't seem fair but did anyone catch the weird play late in one of the halves were Edey got fouled under our basket? It almost looked like an intentional foul. It was odd. There was a stoppage of play and then the announcers said something about the scoreboard still being set up for a womens game so it still showed 5 fouls when Northestern really had 6. At the time I thought to myself what if the guy from Northwestern thought there were only 5 fouls and took the foul on purpose thinking they still had a foul to give. Didn't matter. Purdue still shot the one and one.
Also need to make free throws when we get there. A few games we lost we shot terrible from the line.
Relying on the officials to call fouls and either get you to the line or get the other team in foul trouble is a poor offensive strategy, but it seems like that's what a lot of posters here think.
This is what Purdue has done to opposing teams (mugging) for 4 decades and gotten away with it….
When you are held mauled and pushed trying to get open or pass, it effects everything
Jenkins took a 3 from the corner that fell real short. He immediately looked at the ref and indicated he has been hit on the elbow. The trajectory of the shot would indicate that David had a good argument. So there’s at least 1.
90% of players who miss badly claim they got fouled. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But there were at least 6 WIDE OPEN 3's, where an NU player wasn't within 6 feet, that Purdue missed.
Meh, seems pretty obvious when you watch it that the NW player clearly prevents his arm from following through, but you’re probably right that a guy who’s made over 300 3 pointers in his career usually just throws lasers that barely hit the underside of the rim and then asks for a foul.
