Need to get a good Northwestern team on Wednesday night.
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Matt Painter thanks you for your blind support and casual dismissal of the lousy job that he did again today...next game it is...pretty irrelevant now, as regardless, he and this team have underachieved yet again and will once again bow out early when it matters most.
We will see. I certainly don't mind if you want to jump off the bandwagon. I'm not going to though.
No one's jumping off, I just think reality is setting in for a lot of folks that a first weekend NCAA exit is more probable than not.
This is not about being on a bandwagon or not...nor should it be.
Purdue has now lost its third game in conference play to a team that it had no business losing to, and darn near lost a fourth. Bottom line, once again, it has underachieved...it has become their hallmark.
This was a collective fail from Painter on down...with many contributing...but it is a loss in the exact same fashion as others that should not have happened and did in conference play, never mind in so many previous years.
Glossing over it and pretending that it is acceptable or just happens and being so dismissive has nothing at all to do with being on or off any sort of a bandwagon.
Painter was lousy today...and made a number of mistakes...players did as well..certainly not the first time (especially in Painter's case...never mind it being at least the third time in three weeks), and certainly won't be the last.
Whether or not it is "acceptable" is a matter of opinion. I'm fine with it but then again I understood what this team was at the beginning of the season more so than just about anyone here.
You're not happy with Matt Painter and you weren't happy with Gene Keady. You're not going to be happy with whoever the next guy is either because he will lose games we could've won and he will miss on players that you wanted. All coaches do. It's easy to sit back and criticize and pretend to be an expert. Easiest seat in the house but you can rest easy in the knowledge that you do it with the best of them.
Damn, who would have thought that a simple, neutral post like yours would get you in trouble? How dare you LOL!
Not surprised with some of the sad people on this board who can't handle a loss.
It has nothing to do with an inability to handle "a loss"...there have been far far more than "a loss" to deal with or be able to handle...Purdue has not won a NCAA tournament game since 2012, and has choked in several attempts since in pretty epic fashion...never mind the three losses in just the past three weeks to three of the worst teams in the conference...if it were only dealing with "a loss", so be it, but it is far more than that...it is a case of perpetual underachievement and has been for most of the Matt Painter tenure...like say, that is the hallmark of Purdue basketball under Matt Painter.
Let Painter rest. Tell us how you enjoyed watching Swanigan and others take stupid shots, make turnovers, miss bunnies......you know, the players on the floor. And please, don't say he could have put someone else in because he has no one else.
First, Haas should have been on the floor...and Vince Edwards should not have been...second, maybe after the first two complete fails, opposed to doing the same exact stupid thing a third time, I don't know, maybe do something else (well, that assumes that you not only grasp that, but then that you also have something else,). Finally, his not having anyone else is squarely on his own shoulders.
Is it on him, when he signed Smotherman and the rest of that class....which was supposed to be the best ever at PU....failed to produce? Would you be complaining if they had? I will tell you this....I've coached most of my adult life and no matter what you do, there are players who don't produce and players who fail to get better. Everything bad can't be placed on Matt's shoulders.
But I do agree that I would have had Haas in with Biggie to defend the paint at crunch time.
That's the biggest issue I have with CMP in this game. IH played 13 minutes and had 11 points. How in the world could he not have played at least 20 tonight? There inside defense amounted to grabbing or pushing and hoping we would miss. IH should have been playing the whole final 5-6 minutes and taking advantage of their weakness.
Turnovers, poor defense and questionable judgement were once again our downfall. I don't blame CMP for those, that's on the players.
Again, it made no sense...none at all...and even more so in that Vince Edwards provided absolutely nothing at either end. Nebraska was in significant foul trouble inside...they had nobody to defend Haas...Swanigan fed Haas beautifully a handful of times...it just made no sense, and bottom line, it is inexcusable.
The poor defense has been an issue in each of the three conference losses (to three of the worst teams in the conference nevertheless), and it just seems to be the case that this team absolutely has defensive issues/deficiencies, especially due to the personnel (as well as a lack of depth inside).
CMP repeatedly has the all to familiar deer-in-the-headlights look at the end of close games...to do the same exact thing three consecutive times down the stretch and have it fail horribly all three times pretty much summed things up...that is not a good Nebraska team, not by a longshot, just as Iowa and Minnesota are not good teams...those are teams that an experienced, more talented and better coached team should beat consistently and repeatedly...but it has not happened (and there is no reason to believe that it will the rest of the way this year, or that it will change moving forward).
It is disappointing...it is frustrating...but it has come to be expected when it comes to Purdue basketball, and especially so under Matt Painter. How many times during the off-season and at the beginning of the season did we hear or read about the focus on closing out games and finishing games...only to see Purdue do the same things that it long has three times now in three weeks (against three bad teams on top of it), and nearly a fourth (to yet another bad team)?
It is a collective fail...it is a failure on the part of the coach(es), and a failure on the part of the players as well...difference being, the players change...and in that the results do not, it would seem to reason that more of the onus is on the coach(es).
By "much", if you mean anything more than breathing and taking up space, then your statement is spot on...so much for experience and having learned from past mistakes or failures.
Right, only so that the regained focus can be lost then yet again in the following game, providing yet another opportunity to not dwell on a loss and refocus again for the next opponent.
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