Uhhhhh how is he the weak link? Show me. He got crossed by Buie last year and so did everyone else in the country. He knows where to be on helpside and team defense. And he gets steals. Now rebounding against a bigger guy, that’s another issue. He did get screwed on the foul call when boxing Reese out…but that’s just a small example.
And Lance jones was a perfect fit. I’m trying to tell you that guys don’t just transfer to a good team cuz they’re a good team. They want playing time or $$$$. Lance wasn’t the highest transfer in the portal, but was a great culture fit. Look at Payne from Minnesota. He would have had allll the PT this year there, but his priorities were $$$ and he went to TAMU to play 16 min a game and average 6 and 4. Ballo, Rice and Carlyle were all highly ranked transfers, they went to IU for the $$$ and PT. And look how that working out so far.
The way Paint has so far played the portal, is he’s not going to shell out NIL for some highly ranked transfer because he has no idea how good that guy will be in his system. On the topic of his system, it’s been widely known there are tons of sets and schemes that are hard to pick up right away. This is why we usually see players be better in his system
The second year, so usually those 2 year plus guys are goin to get more playing time than a random portal guy because they’ll give Purdue a better chance to win since they know the schemes and sets better. Add that to the transfer probably will be the 4-6th offensive option, it sometimes isn’t an attractive option and takes the right fit for a guy to transfer to Purdue.
I ll stop there. Maybe paint changes his mind next year, but it seems that’s why some of these big time transfers arent coming Here.
