Eric Hunter vs E'twaun Moore
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If Hunter is a better shooter he better be ready to be in the top of Purdue scoring. Moore is second behind Rick Mount. I hope you are right Nerd.
Smooge shot 44% from the arc his freshman year at Purdue. He was also a consensus Top 40 recruit. Hunter may well end up being very good for Purdue, but let's stop trying to measure his game against one of the top 5 Boilers of the last 30 years.
Moore is 3rd, behind JBC as well.
If hunter scores half the points Moore did, it will be considered a successful career.
I believe Eric hunter will be the FIRST Eric Hunter and will have his own style, identity and game! ad we will like it!
That's pretty high praise. I think we forget just how good Moore and Hummel were their freshmen year.
Have you seen Hunter play much? I haven't so I have no idea how he plays. Just wondering what you thought were his strong points of his game. Maybe I can catch a game this year
Moore was very good as a Freshman and also had the luxury of coming to a bad Purdue Team if you recall.
He started from day 1 and was the best player along with Hummel.
Their game seems to have some similarities however it’s prob unfair to compare Hunter to EM.
He started from day 1 and was the best player along with Hummel.
Their game seems to have some similarities however it’s prob unfair to compare Hunter to EM.
Let me type it again for those who have trouble reading. I said at the SAME STAGE. I love E'twaun btw!
I'm not trying to put you on blast, dude. I know nothing about Hunter but I feel it is pretty optimistic to think he is comparable to Moore because Moore hit the ground running. If he shoots the way you say he does, I would be super stoked.
um...what are you trying to say exactly? He would have started for any Purdue team I can ever remember.
In fairness, he can have a comparable game without being expected to be as good. It’s kind of like comparing Tre Williams to Caleb Swanigan: there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging the similarities without expecting Williams to be an All American as a sophomore. From what I’ve seen of Hunter (which isn’t much), I get the Moore comparison, but I have no expectation that Hunter will score over 2000 career points at Purdue.
All fair points. I guess I just have PTSD from people claiming that every recruit we get is under rated. I think we are getting very good kids who are all capable of making real contributions.
Also, a top 40 recruit in an absolutely loaded class.
Hunter is a better shooter?
Unlikely. Early on in Smooge's h.s. career, his outside shooting was seen as lacking. By the time he completed the AAU circuit heading into his senior year, he was a lethal outside shooter (hence the top 30ish ranking). So at this point in their development, Moore was probably a better outside shooter and overall scorer, etc. I will say that Hunter appears to be a bit bouncier than 3'Twaun as evidenced by some of his lane-driving dunks. E'Twaun usually only dunked when wide-open on a breakout or the very occasional tip or alley-oop.
I saw Hunter play 1 h.s. game this year and it was the televised state finals game and he looked very pedestrian in that game. Now, that is no sample for how he played all year and I have seen him perform well in AAU, previously. Conversely, every time I saw Moore in h.s.,he played very well; quietly dominant, as we all came to know he can, and he put 30 on Eric Gordon in a starring role and win in the state finals his senior year so...yeah, there's not much of a legitimate comparison to Moore other than body-type.
Might be just a very few on here that saw Moore as a HS Junior and Hunter as a HS Junior both several times each where they could definitely say.......and even less people that accurately remembered what they saw each time.....
So I appreciate the reports of those that did....
That was with the shorter 3-point line though. When they lengthened it by a foot his sophomore year, he dropped to 34% on the same volume. Similar drop happened for Hummel too.
I was going to say the same thing as BoilerLville.
Of course Moore was great. But the fact that we had almost 0 upper classman talent on the roster gave him the ability to log 1040 minutes. If Moore was a freshman on this year's team, I think it'd be unlikely he gets that.
For reference, nobody on the 2014 or 2016 teams logged that many minutes. It's a lot.
Good point in general, but I would respectfully disagree on the minutes for Smooge. He played at a very high level as an incoming freshman and would have seen at least 80% of those minutes on any Boiler squad - no matter how stacked. He was that good coming in. He put 30 on Eric Gordon in the state finals for E Chicago.
Also, the reason we had such a good class that year (2007) was because there were minutes to be had. So, the more likely scenario is that we would have missed out on him (and other recruits) to other schools (than for a guy like Etwaun to not get minutes).
That's what has been impressive about these last few classes. We are getting as good of talent as we have ever had when considering consecutive classes. Conversely, it was also a factor to why the classes after 2007 suffered or weren't up to par (e.g. little opportunity).
Our current roster is as deep as I can recall 1-10.
Moore really struggled in the non-conference portion of the schedule in his freshman year, but Painter let him play through it and he went on to have a very good freshman season.
I agree. I know it's hard to get talent on top of talent, but the top tier programs find a way to do it.
The trend appears to be, over the last couple years, that Painter is stacking talent on talent. Let's hope that continues.
This. For years to come we will be saying about new recruits, "He'll be the next Eric Hunter!"
If I recall correctly, the Baby Boilers first conference game was against Michigan State. A friend and i went to a local bar and hoped Purdue could keep it reasonable. It came down to the final minute and Michigan State won, but I that we as when I knew something special was on the horizon.
Purdue had defeated Michigan in its conference opener a few days before, but your point remains about what the team's potential showed in East Lansing against a then top-ten rated Spartan squad. It was the start of a double-digit conference streak, which would include two wins over Wisconsin.
Also, Rob Hummel missed that Michigan State game, out with the flu.
Special moments for me as a Purdue alum watching that team's early successful run as I saw a number of those games from an ICU waiting room while my father was in the hospital, and it was a comforting distraction.
Yes that's right. I remember thinking we had no shot considering how difficult of a match up MSU looked and how inconsistent Purdue looked at during conference play. Great memory Grad in Texas.
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