Boo is good, but he got a little protection. Physical game on Zach and I think it wore him down a bit towards the end. He missed some he normally makes and was a bit lazy to secure some passes as was the fatigue by the passer to not help him with a better angle. NW fought the whole game and Purdue fought in spurts. May win if only 13 turnovers? 😊
It's pretty weak to try to make a point out of a ridiculous hypothetical situation. If I'm going to blame Painter for something I would say an inability season after season to instill a killer instinct in his players. I did not like the one dimensional offense for the majority of the second half, I think that's on Painter. Not having a zone or answer for Buie...ever is on Painter. In this game I don't think the players decision making and the resulting turnovers are on Painter.
He didn't play well at all. Way too many missed shots and free throws.
This post should get its own sticky.
So you just told me things that were CMP's fault that led to a loss but are still saying it wasn't his fault? Amazing... The hypothetical was to show your comment was ridiculous... Play it out... If they keep losing based on Turnovers, which they did a ton last year, and the year before, and... Is it his fault?
I think it's his fault when he recruited small, unathletic, zero strength guards with no ability to create their own shot. He had 2 classes to fill that void and that's why we get beat by guard oriented teams.
we used the portal for Jones. Initially Painter was trying to sign a PG via the portal. However, the ones he tried to recruit signed elsewhere. Jones is not a PG but was known for his defense, decent ball handling skills, and his desire to shoot a lot of 3 pointers.
It’s not rocket science but if you say that at any time here, other than after a loss, the apologists get out their pitchforks.
NWestern identified the weak defensive links and brutalized us over and over again with little responses from our side. Once again quick guards are our kryptonite. As is poor shooting.
Painter is never, ever, ever, ever going to play zone. He just isn't. It's a waste of time to even talk about it. Not even situationally. Right, wrong, it's never going to happen.
We cannot keep talented guards in front of us, at all. And the B10 guards are not even cream of the crop nationally.
He can't make Smith any taller, make Loyer any stronger. He recruited this, leaves them in during crunch time but expects different results. That's on him. He's got to have some self blame in this game.
It's a waste of time to talk about TO's, FT shooting and poor offense, but we still do it here.
Those things are different. They come from the players. Zone comes from the coach and he's never ever ever ever going to do it.
I agree, but did see it from another Big team the other day and thought the same thing . If you HAVE to have a 3 or it is extremely important. Otherwise score if you can.
