It was very obvious, and I was at the game, that their game plan was to foul nonstop. Thank goodness we managed to make 72% at the line.
Just talking to a friend about his. These coaches recruit specific types of players for their game; when they run into a team that doesn't fit well against how they play, they want to change the rules. Let them get a big or two on their squad, then they won't have to play hack-a-shak and complain when the refs call 50% or less of the fouls.
And then he bumped someone and got the quick whistle. My outburst after that got me the “I can’t watch this game with you if you’re going to yell like that” from Mrs New Pal…
Mrs. Swear had the same message for me.
If the B1G officials actually did their job, it would not be any sort of (alleged) anomaly.
I know Sasha missed his first, and, believe that Jaden did as well...might have been the case with Eric also.
Would have liked to seen that shooting all year, but I will definitely take it in the tournament
I was so annoyed admittedly, as, I thought Purdue was in for a long night after that...as, it just changes things SO much for Purdue.
You'll see the same exact strategy utilized against us in the St Peters game...
They have no other option. I think their tallest player is 6' 10" and sure they have beat some solid teams to get to where they are, they have never faced a duo like that of Tre/Zach.
Yeah, the good news is Painter has almost a week to carve out his strategy. I have no doubt we'll be prepared
Not sure we actually shot that good because I thought we missed to many fronts of 1 and 1s. If you count that as two misses (which it essentially is) that brings the percentage down more.
It comes across backhanded though when you basically say you only lost because of the refs.
yeah... I'm not proud of it, but I dropped a couple of words I very rarely use.
The problem is I can’t imagine SPU being as deep as a power five team… might go south quickly for them if refs do call it well
Hah! Mrs. Scuzzer packed up and watched the game from the bedroom because me and my son were being so positive about our play. She said this morning it made her uncomfortable since we don’t normally do that. I think it was when we were down 14-11 and my son and I kept talking about how Texas sucks at shooting from distance and couldn’t possibly keep hitting those shots.
That is just cope-speak. And no I don't mean 'coach' speak, he was trying to cope that that his hack-a-Zach plan backfired on him.Weird comment from Beard:
"Well I think the difficulty and the frustrating part from our point of view, is a lot of them, you know, we weren't trying to foul."
So, in Beard's world, your team should only get called for the fouls when you are TRYING TO FOUL. All of the accidental fouls that result from playing physical defense, being out of position, reaching, etc., should not be counted against you.. because you had good intentions??
I agree, but they did get past UK. Granted I think UK was way over-rated though.
I also remember IT getting quite literally run over and he got called for the blocking foul. Beard is just being ridiculous.
Yeah. I can be objective and admit there were probably a couple calls that went our way. Jaden trucking a guy in the lane while dishing to Morton for a 3-pointer comes to mind. But there were just as many no-calls on Texas. Purdue just doesn't play physical in-your-shorts defense and Texas did not take the ball to the basket very much. Them settling for jump shot after jump shot during their 10 minute drought was the difference and is what Beard should be kicking himself about.
Ramey scored late in the game after blatantly knocking the defender back with his shoulder/elbow, and no call.
