Thankfully, this is the last time we have to put up with your ragging on Bass and Collier...it's not their fault we had the season we did.
Their fault, no. But when you sign up to play Big Ten basketball it comes with expectations. When you are utterly unable to compete at this level, you should expect to be criticized for it. Its certainly a much larger indictment of our coaches that players that are so obviously not capable of playing at this level start and play huge minutes while younger players who are better and need the development time waste away on the bench.
I suggest you go back and review/read my posts regarding the coach. I've indicated on multiple occasions that I'm ready to move on from this experiment, pay the buyout and get started on the new era. Unfortunately, it is very unlikely that will happen. However, there is no reason to rag on these two on Senior Day.
Which young player wasted away on the bench. Not Jones, not Swanson, not Laden the time she was healthy. The freshmen McCarthy and Peryear both played over 17 minutes per game which were reduced by their tendebcy to get themselves in foul trouble. The points Renolds and Poole were injured most of the season and the older Renolds was injured all season. So I honestly have bo idea what you mean. It was a long and trying season for all parties involved, and thankfully it is over. With a 10 and 19 win-loss record I doubt Purdue is invited to any postseason tournament. Wait till next season...
Yes, I would have like Jones and Swanson to play more minutes. Laden was hobbled by injuries all year so I think her minutes were about right. All the underclassmen played and all showed some strengths, relatively speaking. But saying they wasted on the bench is stretching it a bit. Here is to hoping they all come back next season.
Yeah, I think saying that Bass and Collier are "utterly incapable of competing" in the B1G is a little over the top.
Ideally Bass was a 6-7th type player, Collier a speciality one, I have zero problem with them being here, it’s not their fault that they were asked to play thus many minutes. I agree, they surely didn’t deserve the wrath and scorn, I’m sure they gave their all. In the postgame Coach mentioned getting better players in the portal, I hope this is true, picking up girls that averaged 8 and 5 at a MAC school is fine if they’re practice players 10-12 player types, they shouldn’t be starting though.
Agree, but Bass was a 16/10 player last year at Akron. I honestly thought she'd do more at Purdue. But I never saw her as a magic bullet.
Good point, although the 4 transfers were brought in, none of them really took away developmental time from our underclassmen. Swanson averaged 19.2 mins before this last game, so you could say she could of used another 5-7 mins, but is she really going to be a ton better if she had gotten 5-7 more mins a game? That's tough to tell or see. Maybe she's more worn down, she also had a knack for picking up alot of fouls too. She fouled out 6 times this season haha.
I believe CKG would have gotten multi- year transfers if she could. She was shopping out of the clearance bin because the quality transfers were not interested in coming to a mediocre at best team and coach.
So if she played less minutes so that she shot even less while playing poor defense, she would have been fine? By that logic Alaina is the team's MVP for not playing at all.......... SMDH
Well, CKG better figure out a way to find some impactful transfers this offseason or I don't think it'll be much better next year..
I actually thought she would of fit better with last years team that created more open looks because of Ellis, Terry.
The reason that seems logical to me is CKG thought either Poole and Amiyah would be ready, or that they wouldn't be quite ready but CKG didn't want to disparage them and stunt their growth by bringing in a PG who would take their minutes. Or as discussed, Gearlds couldn't recruit anyone good enough to come play for her.
No, she was a catcher forced to play shortstop. A lot of routine ground outs became hits
I don't think that analogy works, because it implies there is a position she could play adequately at a Big Ten team, and with her poor defense and timidness on offense, I just do not see it. Her efficiency rating was 9.7. Swanson was 13.3 and last season Ellis was a 20.4. Collier did nothing well and a couple of things (defense and aggression taking shots) quite poorly. She was a like a junior high kid being pressed into playing varsity and getting schooled.
The analogy works in the sense that she was not equipped with the skills for the role she was asked to play. She would have been more effective coming off the bench to give a starter a quick rest or a settling down break. But that would be starter was not on the team. I don't know how much better Purdue wouldhave been had injuries to key players had not happened but most likely they would have been a bit better. Maybe good enough to make the BTT. And I am aware if the silly cliche that "injuries are prt of the game." They are part of the game, usually the part that causes you to lose the game.
And who was hurt that has shown any ability to play Big Ten ball? Its not that they are a "part of the game" its that our injuries were on players that when healthy have been nothing above awful on the floor when they have played.
