Ice in his veins
I believe that means he has ice water in his veins or something. I'm old though.
if you count the reversed goal tend call, Zack missed 4 straight turn around 8 fters against it
So, I would have to see the game again to get the particulars. First AZ played a 2-3 zone and Purdue scored easy against it. Then they matched Purdue's 3 out with a 3-2 match-up zone it appeared to be. Later I couldn't tell is the communication was bad for AZ to tell if it was still matchup 3-2 look or 3-2 zone. Sometimes players screw up or the offense doesn't move to tell what kind of defense is going on. They may hav been switching 3-2 zone and 3-2 match-up. For the most part after the first attack by Purdue they had a player on the other players matching up with them, but once I think they either got lost or went to straight 3-2. The biggest problem was the ball handling by players not named Braden or Fletcher. Zach was not getting deep enough and settled for about 4 or 5 missed shots where he was too far out. I'm guessing he tired since that was a very fast paced game.
Zach’s quick kick outs to Braden, who nailed the three —was lethal to AZ’s zone…
not knowing which 3 or the time of it a match up zone ...matches up with the players and you attack it as if it were man...since basically that is what it is. The match-up "tries" to play man against people in the areas of the court they are better defenders. Switching can also accomplish this when switching five ways and a lot in switching 4 ways. So if Purdue has 3 out the match up matches them and switches defending different players as they leave their area and get picked up by another in their area. You like a lot of lane crossing and such hopeful the handoffs get messed up, but it does eat some clock. I just think the Bigs turned it over and Zach needed to get lower. Anyway, it may have been man or a match-up that tried to keep the defender in their best area to defend, but still defending a man..
I must cconfess that I don’t pay a lot of attention to what D the other team is playing. In fact, I only noticed it after the announcers mentioned zone.
it is easy to miss and sometimes the offense makes it hard to see. if you see people in an area giving the look of a zone and then everyone has a defender next to them if the player is an offensive threat, then you know it is match-up. A pure zone just defends the area and similar to a match up but many times they are not as tight and then you will see teams attack gaps or overload the zone (put more offensive players where there are not enough defenders). The absolute easiest way to tell is while the offense is crossing half court a defender up top will point to the player he is taking for everyone to match up. Again, the D misses handoffs or the Offense gets stagnant and you may not tell which is which, but if you see the zone morph to the offense then it is usually a match up, but could be a player still playing man and the rest of the team in a zone...
try to catch the first 3 minutes so you can see how it could be difficult to distinguish due to the offense as well.
I thought painter said they came out and players the 2-3 in the second half for the first time all season?
He did. He said that and the first possession after half when they showed zone it was 2-3 and Purdue scored. It looked like to me they matched up with the Purdue players after that, but again...if Purdue thinks it is a zone they may not move as much and sometimes it gets blurred. In a pure 2-3 zone (few teams play a pure zone like you may see in high school or years ago). In a pure zone you have an area more than a player. Different people will play it different, but they shift on the ball and will not cover a man as much typically, but an area...more stationary if that makes sense. Later AZ showed a 3-2 (3 on top 2 low) and even Robbie said 2-3. After the first pass about all pure zones look the same whether starting out in a 1-2-2 or a 2-3 or a 3-2 or a 1-3-1 or some very few 1-1-3 and some show 1-1-3 which is really a 2-3 with the top 2 in tandem and with the right big agile defender a 3-2 that morphs into a 2-3 by dropping the middle of the 3 in a 3-2 to a 2-3...but all pure zones defend an area more so than the man. You can take a zone and do about everything a man does and you can take a man and do about everything a zone does and a match-up tries to gain the advantage of a perimeter player defending the perimeter and a big defending a big. Switching can pretty much duplicate that other than you will at times see Braden down low on a big due to switching.
I thought he was referring to a "shot in the arm" but "ice in his veins" works tooInteresting? I always thought it was this one for TJ...
I’m old and had to look it up but appears to be something deangelo Russel started doing in clutch plays going back to 2016 and then became a TikTok thing. I saw Jones do once too with a bit more swagger.
I think he meant the arm band is too tight and wanted to use a scissor to cut it apart.
I was joking when I said, "Interesting? I always thought it was this one for TJ...
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Crazy to think one would ever say “slow down the offense” for Purdue. Last year it seemed we were so slow and took almost all the time off the shot clock…and this year we are playing at such a quicker pace (or at least showing we can). Hope we can play with this type of tempo in conference play and not fall back into typical slow, B1G football style games!
It's the difference between freshmen guards and experienced sophomore guards. The freshman to sophomore leap..
