Does CMP go after another .......

[jdbrees922]

Jacobson will be back stronger , Burgess will be better. The freshman guards will be fine , the sophomores will be great and our juniors will be great leaders. Unfortunately we lost our rim protector to a broken leg so that hurts . We have experienced injuries before and it sucks but part of the game. No time to panic and change everything. We are what everyone else in the Big 10 wants to be

 

[KentuckyBoiler]

Jacobson will be back stronger , Burgess will be better. The freshman guards will be fine , the sophomores will be great and our juniors will be great leaders. Unfortunately we lost our rim protector to a broken leg so that hurts . We have experienced injuries before and it sucks but part of the game. No time to panic and change everything. We are what everyone else in the Big 10 wants to be

Wait, are you telling me that people don't want to wear clown pants?

 

[bonefish1]

There's practically zero chance that Painter gets 2 guys out of the portal, especially a backcourt guy.

He *may* go and get another big. Whether that's an experienced 5 to put next to TKR at the 4 or another 4 to help back him up next to Jacobsen

Why do you believe that? There's a lot of room for upgrade in our backcourt. Other than Smith, we don't have ballhandlers and good physical defense shuts guys down.

 

[Ihaveswag29]

Why do you believe that? There's a lot of room for upgrade in our backcourt. Other than Smith, we don't have ballhandlers and good physical defense shuts guys down.

Agreed

 

[bonefish1]

Jacobson will be back stronger , Burgess will be better. The freshman guards will be fine , the sophomores will be great and our juniors will be great leaders. Unfortunately we lost our rim protector to a broken leg so that hurts . We have experienced injuries before and it sucks but part of the game. No time to panic and change everything. We are what everyone else in the Big 10 wants to be

Jacobson is not going to solve the problem this team has which is an inability to handle tough, physical man D and keeping the other team off the offensive glass. . All 3 teams that beat us played this way. We'll see it again vs Auburn.
Smith is the only one who can get loose but even he struggles because he's undersized.

 

[PurdueDave]

Why do you believe that? There's a lot of room for upgrade in our backcourt. Other than Smith, we don't have ballhandlers and good physical defense shuts guys down.

So you've written off both Cox and Harris? Seems a bit premature.

 

[BBG]

So you've written off both Cox and Harris? Seems a bit premature.

eh thats just lenny. He also wrote off Painter ever making it to a FF.

 

[tjreese]

With the portal now available as it is, you have 2 choices. You can either recruit and count on Freshmen to perform. Or you go into the portal for your immediate needs. CMP made the decision not to go into the portal and to count on freshmen (for the record, I back whatever decision he makes on recruits/portal). But when you make that decision, fans expect those freshmen to perform. It isn't like it used to be. You now have a resource (legally) to get more experienced players immediately. If you choose not to use that resource, that is fine, but you can't then say "well they're just freshmen you can't put high expectations on them". I hope that makes sense.

It makes sense, but if you don't recruit freshmen and the player paid to come to Purdue doesn't perform as expected then it will always be that Matt should have taken this player instead. Also, because we see a person in a different system doesn't mean it will be replicated at Purdue. The high school freshmen becomes a sophomore the next year and the transfer may be out the door the next year. As you alluded there is no 100% fix in play, but fans will always give too much credit to a coach when the team wins and too much blame when he doesn't. I do think a single transfer...maybe two at the most could make sense, but there is no guarantee unless paying millions they work out and even then they may not have the heart.

 

[Bleedinggoldandblack]

CMP I believe prefers to " grow" his teams from the ground up foundation stuff it's proved to work over and over Edey being the most recent example , he seems to bring in portal guys as icing on the i.e. Lance Jones did he change things just at the right time. I don't think we make the FF without him. So CMP is once again putting in a group that has the core of staying vs 1 and done. That is the secret of team building IMHO. This is a transition year , DJ getting hurt was a big deal as he needed this time. So a portal athletic guard and some meaness under the basket wouldn't hurt next year. But I never got paid the big bucks for cbb so there's my less than 2 cents . Team building vs buying players in the portal. CMP is old school but it's gotten him quite a good history over the years.