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Deja Vu

A group that has the potential to lead Purdue to B1G or National Championships.

OK, I disagree with your disagreement. None of these guys were 5 Star recruits. All were drafted.
Yep bookmark it and revisit it. But first you should rewatch the highlight tape from last year and then put a checkmark next to your top sentence. Seems like you didn’t have any tv in that cave you were in during the 2023/24 season.
 
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What is “special” in your eyes?
This is a special group - standing out amongst your competitors.

JaJuan Johnson​

E'Twaun Moore​

Robbie Hummel​

 
This is a special group - standing out amongst your competitors.

JaJuan Johnson​

E'Twaun Moore​

Robbie Hummel​

AH, so special is personal achievements and not winning multiple B1G championships/a regionals/a f4 game and being NCRU.

Got it.
 
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This is a special group - standing out amongst your competitors.

JaJuan Johnson​

E'Twaun Moore​

Robbie Hummel​

Gonna have to strongly disagree on this one. I’ll take the special moments of winning the big ten and making deep tourney runs over any personal accolades. While those are nice, that’s not what I’ll look back on and smile about years from now.
 
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Gonna have to strongly disagree on this one. I’ll take the special moments of winning the big ten and making deep tourney runs over any personal accolades. While those are nice, that’s not what I’ll look back on and smile about years from now.
These achievements typically come with successful teams.

OK, so Smith, TKR and Loyer aren’t a special group because they haven’t achieved that. I’ll talk to you at the end of this season.
 
These achievements typically come with successful teams.

OK, so Smith, TKR and Loyer aren’t a special group because they haven’t achieved that. I’ll talk to you at the end of this season.
This makes no sense. Unless both sets of players were only playing in a 3 v 3 tourney.

Love the baby boilers and they were special. But so is this group...and so was last year's group and even the one before that (even if they lost in the first round).
 
TKR, Smith, Loyer is not a special group.
Not exactly. It "can", but doesn't require great college results. Some are young, athletic and have a very high ceiling that teams will draft on potential. I hope any Purdue player can play after Purdue, but my interest is how they do while playing for Purdue.
 
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Not my image so can't take credit for putting it together, still.. had to share.
Not sure how a discussion takes place about Deja Vu without some background noise from the past?

 
Junior year combined statistics:

Hummel/JJ/Smooge: 47.6 points, 17.8 rebounds, 5.5 assists,46.8% FG, 35.1% 3P, 76.8% FT

Braden/Loyer/TKR: 46.7 points, 12.7 rebounds, 13.5 assists, 51.3% GS, 44.4% 3P, 72.4% FT
TKR really bringing down that FT% haha...but apparently they need the personal awards and not the actual winning of championships and tournament games to be "special"
 
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TKR really bringing down that FT% haha...but apparently they need the personal awards and not the actual winning of championships and tournament games to be "special"
What's interesting is he listed their 4 year accolades, which is unfair because this group has only had 2 seasons to accumulate them. When you strip out their junior and senior year awards, it gets a lot closer:

JaJuan Johnson​

  • First-team All-Big Ten (2009)
  • Big Ten All-Defensive team (2009)

E'Twaun Moore​

  • 2× Second-team All-Big Ten (2008, 2009)
  • Big Ten All-Freshman team (2008)

Robbie Hummel​

 
TKR, Smith, Loyer is not a special group.
Smith is the best point guard we have ever had. Loyer is one of the best shooters ever. TKR is playing great. These players would play for any team in the country. Smith would start for any team in the country.
 
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