Forde piece on epic choke job
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Not true. Lots of Painter apologists say that when Painter recruits marginal athletes.
The entire fake news campaign was based on Smith and Loyer "not playing like freshman"
That was part of facade. At least Steve Lappas could see Smith was playing stupid as a PG. About time he was called out. All I heard from Painter was "shoot more threes". How about stop dribbling into traps and leaving your feet with zero outs?
Duke just got beat by a high IQ coach. Athleticism didn't win this game. It happens
That’s why we should have bought an experienced PG in the portal.
Same players. Your argument is our players can’t play with their players because they are more athletic.
We are on the same page there. Or even retained Hunter Jr. Totally blew that. Smith would have been great coming off the bench for 12 minutes a game!
TN isn’t loaded with athletes? I must have been watching a different team in orange.
No we don’t have athletes compared to Tennessee, they are fully matured athletes. Can you imagine how many times Loyer would get knocked to the ground? But Tennessee starts 4 seniors and A 5 star sophomore. Very mature physically. We need Renn and Furst to mature and hope the guard court does as well
Purdue never recruits PGs. Who's #2 after Everett Stephens in the Keady/Painter years? Carson Cunningham? It's ridiculous.
Nope. Duke was a disorganized mess of top athletes in November. We were already a well oiled machine of highly skilled, mediocre athletes playing near their ceiling.
Not really. They slow it down and play a motion style with kick outs. I'd say your glasses are foggy
So how then did we become a non well oiled machine? Did the players become less athletic?
They made the decision to take away our only special player, and then our average players choked under the NCAA one and done pressure.
Highly skilled because Zach put us in that position and our players were hitting shots. After a long year. These young guns got wormed down by better athletes. Sometimes those athletes don't always win games as we saw in Duke.
It was just a worn down team. Those freshman hit a wall.
Everyone is worn down. That’s an excuse. Tennessee is worn down, and they lost their starting point guard. They still have the team length and athleticism to lock down a bunch of lottery picks.
To be fair they have leaders on that team our team lacks that leadership. They're not tremendously athletic, but have aged players that play smart and gritty
Do they have 2 freshman guards? Is the SEC as physical is the big ten? Maybe their coach is able to adjust and painter has trouble.
They’re a lot longer, stronger and more athletic than we are.
Did you even watch Hunter at Butler? Streaky at best and BU fans were begging for him to come off the bench—on a 14-18 season. Nice kid but took the year off.
