MSU and IU on the road this week

[DrEss]

How we feeling Boilers? I cannot say I am very optimistic now going into this week, after going a very surprising to me, 0 for 2 last week. Are our Boilers catching either team at the right time, to get a W or 2? I want to believe they can, but I just don’t know if we can get the needed winning efforts AND execution for 40 minutes.

 

[BBG]

I'm hard pressed to see anything but a 1-1 split but realistically see 0 and 2. But.. the pressure is also off to an extent on winning the conference so who knows.

MSU hasn't been too impressive yet they win and Indinia is still Indinia...

 

[Chi-Boiler]

Compared to Wisconsin, who killed us in the ball movement game, Michigan State doesn't play like that this year. Yeah their guards are the focus, but the play more 1-on-1 than they historically do. Therefore I think this game will be vastly different for us on the defensive end. I don't have a line out yet, but I'm guessing MSU -3.5.

Strangely, I'm more worried about the Indinia game.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

Strangely, I'm more worried about the Indinia game.

Me too. It’s their Super Bowl.

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

How we feeling Boilers? I cannot say I am very optimistic now going into this week, after going a very surprising to me, 0 for 2 last week. Are our Boilers catching either team at the right time, to get a W or 2? I want to believe they can, but I just don’t know if we can get the needed winning efforts AND execution for 40 minutes.

Last stand for the Boiler Rebels......

Dun dun dun dun dundun Dun dundun............

 

[proudopete]

We will win both games. It won’t be easy but this team still has an edge to it.

 

[Heads up BOILER]

I feel like we can rebound and go into Brealin and get a W. I think we can out score them and they may have a slight let down after escaping OSU and seeing us lose twice. I can see IU going two ways… we can go in and dominate since we didn’t the first meeting or they come away with a close win. I’m going with the optimistic prediction of pulling off two W’s this week.

 

[Dryfly88]

I feel like we can rebound and go into Brealin and get a W. I think we can out score them and they may have a slight let down after escaping OSU and seeing us lose twice. I can see IU going two ways… we can go in and dominate since we didn’t the first meeting or they come away with a close win. I’m going with the optimistic prediction of pulling off two W’s this week.

I think you're confusing MSU and UM. UM just escaped OSU. MSU whipped Illinois on the road.

 

[qazplm]

I can see 2-0, 1-1, or 0-2 equally.

No idea what's going to happen

 

[RossMackey]

The ambush in Happy Valley and the late, disappointing collapse in Ann Arbor loom huge now, but redemption is at hand, if Purdue plays with some “crazed poise” this week.

Paging Caleb , Fletcher, Cam, and Myles: your time to step up has come.

 

[BoilerNGold013]

Im excited to see how the team responds. The offense is still elite. Hope that Colvin can be ole miss colvin and Heide can be rutgers game from last year Heide offensively. They both have the talent to stay in front of guards. Really hope that Colvin can take some of Loyers minutes especially when the other team has a talented 2/3.

I think MSU will be a win and IU a loss.

 

[Heads up BOILER]

I think you're confusing MSU and UM. UM just escaped OSU. MSU whipped Illinois on the road.

Yes, I’m aware of their win and I did mess that up referencing OSU vs Michigan. I still think that their win against the Illini could play into a letdown next game at home especially since we lost two in a row.

 

[ChoiceBeef]

Indiana is off until we arrive? How’d that happen?

 

[SaratogaBoiler1]

Indiana is off until we arrive? How’d that happen?

I think it was the same for us if I remember correctly

 

[Schnelk]

I think they also had a week off before our 1st meeting.

 

[SaratogaBoiler1]

This team is too good to just fold up and go away quietly. Smith and TKR and gonna take these games personally and I expect them both to play extremely well - especially Smith. Tuesday is possibly the biggest game of the year for us to stop the bleeding and get some momentum back. I’m expecting we go 2-0 and get back into the Big Ten race.

 

[BoilerMaker P]

I think they also had a week off before our 1st meeting.

I thought Purdue had a week off before them.

 

[BoilerMaker P]

Indiana is off until we arrive? How’d that happen?

Seems like teams have rested up for Purdue a lot this year.

 

[ChoiceBeef]

Seems like teams have rested up for Purdue a lot this year.

Yes.

 

[New Pal Boiler]

Yes.

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We’ve also played a decent number of teams missing key personnel.

 

[BoilerMaker P]

Yes.

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That’s what I was referring to. I guess I should have underlined the link text initially.

 

[ChoiceBeef]

That’s what I was referring to. I guess I should have underlined the link text initially.

My bad….didn’t even notice that 🫠

 

[Purdue Grad in Texas]

Seems like teams have rested up for Purdue a lot this year.

Painter mentioned this analysis in his pre-game interview remarks, interestingly.

 

[pubill]

This team is too good to just fold up and go away quietly. Smith and TKR and gonna take these games personally and I expect them both to play extremely well - especially Smith. Tuesday is possibly the biggest game of the year for us to stop the bleeding and get some momentum back. I’m expecting we go 2-0 and get back into the Big Ten race.

Big Ten race may be out of our hands, I just want to see defensive effort and smarts on offense.

 

[proudopete]

Purdue is gonna hammer IU this weekend. Gotta take it out on somebody. Why not the Hoosiers?

 

[BoilerMaker P]

Purdue is gonna hammer IU this weekend. Gotta take it out on somebody. Why not the Hoosiers?

I wish I had that optimism. Nothing I’ve seen recently makes me believe that including IU nearly knocking them off in Mackey.

 

[Purdue0023]

Slump is real now. We need to get our shooting touch back and our confidence. Probably going to catch hell for this but here it goes: Telling our guys after the Wisconsin loss that Wisconsin was mentally and physically tougher, I think was the wrong approach. It's not like our guys didn't already feel like crap for losing at home. I like Painter and all but sometimes he is still a little off. We didn't lose to Wisconsin because they were mentally and physically tougher than us. We lost because most of the game it was 5 versus 8 and we also just had a bad shooting night while Wisconsin was shooting with confidence. Smith was 10 points under his average which happened to be the margin of victory for Wisconsin. Not blaming Smith for the loss by any means (we wouldn't have the success we have had if not for him), but if someone doesn't step up to compensate for those 10 points it isn't going to end well. Wisconsin was/is just a tough matchup for us currently. No need to label the loss as some sort of inferiority to the opponent. Look ahead and be done with it.

 

[Chi-Boiler]

Slump is real now. We need to get our shooting touch back and our confidence. Probably going to catch hell for this but here it goes: Telling our guys after the Wisconsin loss that Wisconsin was mentally and physically tougher, I think was the wrong approach. It's not like our guys didn't already feel like crap for losing at home. I like Painter and all but sometimes he is still a little off. We didn't lose to Wisconsin because they were mentally and physically tougher than us. We lost because most of the game it was 5 versus 8 and we also just had a bad shooting night while Wisconsin was shooting with confidence. Smith was 10 points under his average which happened to be the margin of victory for Wisconsin. Not blaming Smith for the loss by any means (we wouldn't have the success we have had if not for him), but if someone doesn't step up to compensate for those 10 points it isn't going to end well. Wisconsin was/is just a tough matchup for us currently. No need to label the loss as some sort of inferiority to the opponent. Look ahead and be done with it.

Give me a break with that crap.

 

[Purdue0023]

Give me a break with that crap.

Well, there were some obvious fouls that were not called and questionable ones that were. Has Caleb ever fouled out of a game before? Idk, for a home game I thought the officiating was strangely in Wisconsin's favor. But whatever. I just want to see things start to go our way and see us playing like we did when we demolished Michigan on our home floor. Where did that team go?