Our defensive stopper. Great to see. Very happy for him and our team. Boiler up...
Colvin...
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Great game tonight on the boards as well...will get plenty of minutes if he continues this performance
Defense was great and his offense is really good too. Good to see his hard work is paying off. Need him to keep it up!
Very impressed with Colvin tonight. Heide too. Someone tweeted that he got a call or text from Lance Buckets today for a little shot of confidence.
CMP had some great things to say about Colvin in the presser. The defense was outstanding, even when John hit some crazy looks.
CMP had some great things to say about Colvin in the presser. The defense was outstanding, even when John hit some crazy looks.
Yes the play of Colvin will get him minutes. Clearly coaches notice. If he embraces that side and continues to dawg & harass dudes on D, his PT will go up dramatically, as this pretty good offensive team needs help on that side.
Who would have thought we would be talking about Colvin & great defense in the same sentence??
me too, I said sometimes guys got to play thru some things and they can't when they are sitting on the bench. H e played great scored , defended, and rebounded ( which we really need). And this is no knock on Harris , who will be a great player, but I was surprised that Colvin wasn't a starter at the beginning of the season ( even though I know it's not who starts but who finishes).
I think that lineup of TKR, Heide, Colvin, Loyer and Smith is starting to look pretty good.
I still maintain that's our best lineup.
I still maintain that's our best lineup.
The first thing I think of when I see that line-up is the spacing that it allows. Shooters are everywhere giving Smith and TKR, in particular, a ton of room to work.
Just need that lineup to rebound!
I think…Colvin may take that over. However, Harris did great on John last night in the first half. 2nd half is when he heated up and we needed Colvins threat to score to counter. And his defense was the best we’ve seen and he rebounded at times good. Keep building on that and let’s hope w me see an even better Myles by end of the year.
This is key, and why we will still see a center in the lineup often. We got handled on the offensive glass last night.
Well the interesting thing was seeing Painter play offense-defense between Fletch and Colvin.
It very well may be this, but when you look at the bench you have Cox as the only real scorer which is a concern to some degree for minutes and quite possibly him and Harris playing together more than desired in close games, until proven to not be a concern.
That said I love this freshmen class! I don't think Matt is ready or will be ready for a few more games to move Trey into the 5 for most the game, not because that the team is not better suited offensively, but holding on to the thought of some big to shore up rebounding and internal D since Purdue has little problems scoring.
Here is what we got from the #5 last night (berg/furst/burgess):
33 minutes, 4 points, 3 rebounds
If that doesn't improve soon, I'm all for going small for longer stretches and seeing what happens.
33 minutes, 4 points, 3 rebounds
If that doesn't improve soon, I'm all for going small for longer stretches and seeing what happens.
Criminally BAD. Sad....when you think one of those is an Indiana Mr. Basketball leaves me very disappointed in that output.
They gave us 19-14 last game so maybe it’s a one off?
If that point occurs and it very well may happen, Matt will make a decision. Course, it may be more of an evolution than revolution that takes place.
Or you leave the starters as is, and have CJ, Myles and Cam come off the bench guns a blazing… and then play the hot hands from there on out?
I expect that to be the case just due to not having a lull on O at any point...assuming of course that he doesn't have 5 that have dominant minutes
Maybe we see more of this as the “closing” lineup.
I think that was more of a function of Myles picking up that bs fourth foul.
Even post Daniel, we are 10 deep with quality talent and the rotation will depend on matchups. Painter has lots of options to choose from.
I’m still not a fan of small ball.
I said all of last year that if Myles wanted to get minutes, he would have to improve his defense. It looks like he listened. Myles is competing with Harris for the three spot. They are both great shooters. Whoever plays awesome defense is going to start.
As for center, I really wanted and thought Jacobson could start as a freshman. A lot of that was because of his play in the international tournament. Another part of it was I was not very hopeful that Bufg would be anything. And Furst has other things on his mind besides playing basketball.
I would hate to see Tkr forced to play the 5. However, it doesn’t appear we have any other options!
The Alabama game will be a great indicator and forecast for the season. If we win. This could be an awesome season. If we lose, it will be another 20 wins and early dance exit. That’s not a bad thing. I just don’t see playing small winning many games in the tournament.
I’ll still root for the team, but my expectations are a lot lower
I said all of last year that if Myles wanted to get minutes, he would have to improve his defense. It looks like he listened. Myles is competing with Harris for the three spot. They are both great shooters. Whoever plays awesome defense is going to start.
As for center, I really wanted and thought Jacobson could start as a freshman. A lot of that was because of his play in the international tournament. Another part of it was I was not very hopeful that Bufg would be anything. And Furst has other things on his mind besides playing basketball.
I would hate to see Tkr forced to play the 5. However, it doesn’t appear we have any other options!
The Alabama game will be a great indicator and forecast for the season. If we win. This could be an awesome season. If we lose, it will be another 20 wins and early dance exit. That’s not a bad thing. I just don’t see playing small winning many games in the tournament.
I’ll still root for the team, but my expectations are a lot lower
TKR apparently stated in the last game’s post-game press conference that he really wants to play the 5. Heard that info on 2 separate podcasts so I don’t think that would be a “forced to play” situation.
Still lots to figure our with this team - I think CMP will plan and move his “chess pieces” with thoughtfulness and data/analytics, as well as his own eye test of his players.
Definitely a different team construction from last season - but there are a lot of exciting options. I’m enjoying watching the new look Boilers figure it out. Won’t dominate like last year, but steady progress/improvement is what we all want to see I think.
Lacking a secondary ball handler in that lineup. I dont' think Colvin or Heide have a lot of confidence in their ball handling. A team with good on ball pressure would create problems for that lineup.
Good point. I'm not really sure if Colvin can dribble well or not, he certainly doesn't do a whole lot of it in the half court.
I mean we got handled with Berg and First in there too.
We're simply not going to be a team that out rebounds a lot of teams or plays amazing defense. We will win by outscoring them with shooting, ball movement, and just a lot of offensively talented players.
Well I've seen nothing from Berg or Furst to suggest either can do that this season.
Exactly. Painter will earn his salary this year deciding which strengths to emphasize and which weaknesses to try to navigate. He can go heavy offense and live with mediocre defense and rebounding. Or he can go more offensively challenged and try to address defense and rebounding.
he might never develop the ball handling to break guys down off the dribble. He's a good athlete, good shooter, but I don't think attacking the paint is a big part of his game. He might develop it marginally, but if he's not doing it by now, i doubt we'll see much of it.
Heide is the same way but Cam seems to be willing to mix it up more on the boards.
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