What about Zach’s spin move tho?
Northwestern at Purdue: MASTER DISCUSSION THREAD
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They hit over 50% of threes and some of those were tough ass shots where our guards and team played great defense and they had to chuck up a 3 at the end to beat the shot clock and made it.
100% I want to see them again! Of course! Playing good teams that shoot lights out get's you more ready for March. Plus it's a fun game to watch, no?
Didn't he step on court and briefly grab a Purdue player last year? And nothing was called.
They were leaning and pushing with their body on Zach every possession and I wonder how much of that wore Zach down and contributed to his misses. I think they hit 2 or 3 3s on last second shot and until the fouling started at the end I think they shot better from the 3 than Purdue did from the line
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We can agree to disagree but letting the defender bump and block well that is a foul unless the rules have changed
I wouldn't say all of those 3's were with great D or even getting into the paint against us. Yes, did they hit some great shots....sure, but there were a ton of plays were our defender got lost. They have great offensive guards and have that ability. Let's not make this something it wasn't.
I'm just glad we won. This isn't something new against us. We have had problems with good offensive guards but it's usually a loss. Once again, I'm just glad we won.
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Ummm....yeah....Fletcher Loyer.
Could be....like Painter with his one ejection @ Illinois years ago. All he needed was a chair..... haha.
I don’t want to expend that kind of energy on the Sunday before the NCAA tournament.
Would rather lose on Friday or Saturday.
It was absolutely a hook, but maybe the knee came out and impeded Jones at the same time, I don't know. It's a call that normally goes against the offensive player. I'm not sure why Loyer didn't throw it up to Edey who was standing about at the elbow.
Step 1: Get the ball inbounds.
Step 2: Make the FTs.
You never want to throw it in to the corner, especially right at their bench.
They started riding the refs the first timeout trying to let it be more physical inside. The best defense against Zach is physical play it makes it harder to make baskets and wears him down.. Boo never got the floaters he usually gets as Purdue tried to bottle him up and appeared to keep him more on the left side of the court
It's not hard. We play inside/out and they play outside/in. We are going to get more calls. We have a 7'4" 300lb beast that gets great position. Every team has a foul problem against us. I can remember when Shaq shot 31 ft's in a game.
To me it appeared Morton actually made contact. I didn't see much of a kick out of the leg. IMO
My overall take on this game:
We took Northwestern's absolute best shot and won. We had TONS of shots at the rim roll off the rim, including 2 on the same possession in the second half. We still won. We missed 17 Free Throws, including at least 2 (I couldn't watch the first half) front ends, so really that's 19 misses. We still won.
On to Wisconsin.
We took Northwestern's absolute best shot and won. We had TONS of shots at the rim roll off the rim, including 2 on the same possession in the second half. We still won. We missed 17 Free Throws, including at least 2 (I couldn't watch the first half) front ends, so really that's 19 misses. We still won.
On to Wisconsin.
Except the foul was called on Braden. I thought Berry flailed and went down and bought the call.
Meanwhile a top-10 team is about to lose a home game to an unranked fringe tournament team in overtime.
Not very common, but it happens.
Not very common, but it happens.
One of the front end misses in the first half (ZE) ended up with a Gillis rebound foul, and Gillis converted the two FT's.....
Zach Edey just had one of those nights....and he missed short, long, sideways......every which way. TKR looked like he had no confidence with his. I like Lance Jones' form tonight - he's going to probably be one that will get fouled at the end of games down the line.....
Good gut check kind of game with a little good fortune too. Nice to see the Boilers get some payback from Northwestern.
Exactly, the NW defender kicked his knee out long before Jones even made the the attempt to hook. Blocking foul all day.
ZE could have had a 40/15 game and it didn't even seem possible. Man, he gets points and rebounds in bunches.
We have lost twice this year and once was to this team and the other to a team that shot over 60% from 3. And I’ll give you Berry hit some wide open ones, but they also hit a decent amount of not just tough 3s but tough 2s too, let’s not try to say they didn’t. Sometimes in basketball a guy is just feeling it and is just on. Other times they are just off…This team has also shot 27% from 3 and Nebraska shot horrible the next two games after us.
Whats more impressive to me is that we almost shot 50% from 3. We continue to hit the 3 balll (for the most part)…at least a whole lot bette than last year.
We have problems with good offensive guards because we only have one guy who can guard them and he wasn’t here last year. This year is way better than last year. Hopefully, smith (good off ball defender), loyer (somehow), Colvin (somehow), Heide (improving) and Harris and maybe even cox can be better than what we have been this year and last.
Carsen and the E8 ended with Minnesota beating us In the quarters so not the end of the world and no reason to have those guys beat up Zach with awful B1G refs not calling anything.
Obviously.
But - When you know step 2 isn’t likely, you start looking for any other option.
And step 1 is Mason not throwing a bad pass into the corner to begin with, putting us in that situation, where Fletch can’t move.
The one thing that Braden does at least once is go to the corner on the press. Like dude, stop that. You know better. I hope we have some better inbounding plays against the press for the tourney. We have done well though against it all year. I’d assume Matt is saving some for then.
I think he may be talking about the one that wasn't called that Berry acted like he was hurt after the shot
He was really trying to sell it. On the replay he clearly landed safely on both feet and then started acting.
Yeah but I was originally talking about the one that did get called and Berry made 3 FTs. 37 seconds left in reg. Went from up 2 to down 1.
Maybe, he was frustrated, I’m fine with it, he shook hands with Painter, gave Edey a hug etc.
The no-call on the hook-and-hold on Edey was absolutely ludicrous. And Northwestern just shoved and hacked on every possession. Complaining that it was called 67% of the time is ludicrous. Gillis had two fouls called against him that were very questionable, and the charge call against Jones was definitely a block on Barnhizer.
And some obvious double dribbles that weren’t called, a ball that went off Northwestern was incorrectly given to them, and on and on…
