You know what you've got with IT and EH. They're not going to suddenly become better ball handlers, stronger, faster, etc. Teams know that when they're the ball handler, if you put good pressure starting at 3/4 or 1/2, you can disrupt the Purdue offense.
It’s a little fuzzy, I’ve had some egg nog since then but I seem to recall that it looked like he was saying “okay” and nodding as if agreeing to whatever Painter said to him as he was walking down the bench. It wasn’t him mouthing off or complaining.
Na. It wasn't. But it's okay you peegsters wouldn't know anyway.
No it wasn't. BBG is right you're probably just Trojan on here with another id. You've established yourself as a clueless halfwit at best. Time for you to head back to the trailer park Trojan.
Great find on the data.
That's easy. Not hitting open shots or the ones that are literally at the rim that somehow get missed. So it boils down to consistency.
So, the team is in a collective shooting funk?
Based on the UW game and how we pretty much got what we wanted, especially inside, but yet missed. I would call it a funk.
Nicholls, Butler and Villanova are the only games that we have shot under 60% from the line as a team. Against Iowa we shot 68%. The team average is 72.9%, which is 111th nationally (Duke is 75th, Gonzaga 214, Baylor 268)
And a lot of them. I see a lot of 'waiting for the call' when it happens too which is never a good thing because especially against UW, it seemed like that led to them getting the rebound.
You mean that defense that gave up 22 to UW? One good game doesn't make them the defensive juggernaut you want them to be.
Yeah, Wisconsin got physical with us and a lot of it wasn’t called, BUT we got away with a LOT of physicality on defense as well. Tons of bumping, some grabbing, so we cannot blame the refs for this one. We got a very fair whistle.
Agree and I'm of the camp that bad officiating is always going to happen so don't depend on that winning a game for you. Play like you aren't going to get a call your way and finish strong.
100% agree on all counts. Gotta hit at least 75% at the stripe.
Yeah that was pretty stupid on the Paint crew's part and well timed by the guy fouling out so credit where credit is due. They yelled it right when Zach shot and you can see him not ready for it and he ends up missing.
They did it twice actually. I think Gard had them do it on purpose. Pretty genius.
The big ten regular season champ should have at least 5 losses. Still can be us.
Two different 5 minute periods where we didn't score a field goal hurts us more than missing a couple FTs
I said their defense last night was very good , much better than we have been playing, But watching they have consistently put good pressure on the ball and deny passes, which is what has been giving our guards problems.
Brad shut Sasha down on Monday. Just like he did w/ JBlow last night. Not sure what happened in your Rutgers game.
Two studs for Nichols went off (30 and 20 from guys averaging 21 and 6)?
Apparently we haven't seen enough. I still don't understand why we dont try a zone, full court or half court press. At least make them spend some energy. I will never understand it. Everytime we lose its because a player usually goes off on us. We don't do anything different to try to stop them.
Same reason IT and EH play a combined 40 mins and avg a total of 3 Pts.
It’s probably my biggest criticism of CMP.
