burgess struggled. I do think Giccari made a bad decision to pass it in traffic to Burgess. He just not physically ready for that and I think Burgess did not travel when he scored the two points. It didn’t look like to me. It looked like you did a little side step, but no travel.
BPOY shouldn't have to be his bar every game. The rest of the team needs to show up not named TKR.
They were holding tight to three-point shooters that’s why he was so open. Purdue just kept feeding him . This is why I was kinda hoping maybe they’d leave some space so Braden could drive to the basket. It’s fouled he goes the line, but Trey had been working well. They went one time too much to the well
Who cares about BT T. Lose 1st game and rest.
Come on, man. It was a great game. Big Ten refs are A-W-F-U-L, but they usually screw everyone equally. You were gifted 3 points at the FT line when Jakucionis didn’t even touch your shooter, and the announcers and plenty of non-partisan folks on social media were calling it an atrocious call.
Plenty of themes... inconsistent play by Loyer, inconsistent play by Colvin and Heide, inconsistent play by Furst, Burgess hitting a frosh wall, inability of anyone to stop penetration...
Would like to hear his answer. The whole idea of taking your top player out BEFORE the tv timeout is to let them rest during the timeout and then back in. Why you would not put him in after the timeout is crazy. IMO, the game was lost in that next 2-3 minute stretch. Had a chance to push out a 10 point lead, instead they closed to 3 and all momentum was lost.
Oh, I have no doubt whatsoever, but that ball is gonna be as big as room in Matt’s mind tonight. Course Purdue week side has their head on a swivel and cut those passes to Riley as he cuts through the lane earlier in the game play may not have mattered quite as much.
The three-point shot against fletch was a bad call. I would trade that call for some other calls though in a split second.
What is a little surprising is on this last play when they were feeding tray prod pull all the people to one side of the court so that to remove some of that help defense instead Cox was on his right hand side and Riley left Cox and double down on treys drive that was a little surprising too now was that a mistake by Cox or did the coaches not think of that… who knows?
To be fair, he definitely hit Loyer's hand. But refs didn't miss a bunch of shots in the last two minutes.
I'd be fine with it if he wouldn't disappear for such long stretches
Some people arguing he kept TKR on bench too long and others saying he should have rested Braden some.
I get what you're saying about Loyer defense, add to that zero assists and zero rebounds. Ideally you would get more from your 3rd best player. Especially with the minutes he played.
I meant the timeout before halftime and then the other one with around a minute left. They choked the last minute of both halves. Can't argue that.
It's been a theme. Several games this conference season we've struggled to close the first half. The IU game in Bloomington is actually the outlier. I'm not sure I understand it. I mean tonight, Riley hit a three at the gun on a great step-back over Braden. Not much you can do about that. I will say I was worried about Braden's height tonight if he ever got switched off of Boswell, and it happened plenty. It was too easy for Riley, KJ and Brickhouse to shoot over him.
LOL. We won’t have the money to add a better scorer than Braden or TKR. We’ll have to empty the war chest to keep them.
I blame Painter, and I'm in his corner for using his same sub pattern and not looking more at Waddel and others when PU had huge leads in games won. Myles and Heide are not getting the job done though Painter keeps playing them in the same spot every game, Harris plays better than either (IMO) and should be first off the bench. Burgess will be serviceable the next couple of years, but he's not good enough to get major minutes.
This is what bothers me. Boswell and Riley were barely touched several times and they got a whistle. Several of Heide's fouls stick out as being very week.
