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[CRBoiler]

I must say I'm disgusted by the result of the game today, but I'm not ready to write off the season. I suggest anyone ready to give up take the advice of the lady in the video. It sucked, but it was one game.

I said it after the Iowa game; this is a critical part of the season when we are facing more consistently strong competition and thus may experience some losses, but we are by no means in a hopeless situation. A few teams have done our team and coaches the service of exposing weaknesses that can cause us to lose. Weaknesses like not being able to feed our centers because we wasted too much time getting past presses and traps or because we faced an aggressive ball-denying zone and found no way to beat it. Weaknesses like a generally anemic offense when we can't feed our centers or hit enough 3's. Weaknesses like getting a bit flustered & making some bad decisions when we get behind. Weaknesses like the coaches being too slow or not bold enough to make adjustments soon enough. And others... we have a number of weaknesses, but...

Remember that we also have a good number of strengths. More strengths than weaknesses, IMO. The team has shown before it can learn from mistakes and improve - remember the turnaround last year. I think it is quite likely this team cannot fully achieve its potential without some losses like the one today. I believe the team and coaches will take the opportunity to figure out what went wrong in these losses - the root causes - and make corrections. I agree the coaches made some mistakes, but even highly paid coaches have bad days. I've had some great employees at my company have terrible, costly days, and as upset and frustrated as I was at the time, I'm so glad I didn't make a snap judgment and fire them. CMP will have some bad days, but more good ones IMO. I'm glad he's our coach.

Part of reason we lost tonight was the other team shot a lot of 3's and made a high percentage of them, and we show fewer 3's and made a lower percentage... Even the best teams can lose to mediocre competition when that happens. Also, it seemed like the refs were calling fouls as tight as the first game of the season after the new rules changes and areas of emphasis. So many whistles. It REALLY affected the rhythm of the game, and our team dealt with it worse than our opponent. I don't usually call out the refs, but they were absolutely a factor tonight.

Boiler Up! Let's go win some games now.

 

[Boiler_HD]

Truth^ We will be fine.

 

[delish1]

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I must say I'm disgusted by the result of the game today, but I'm not ready to write off the season. I suggest anyone ready to give up take the advice of the lady in the video. It sucked, but it was one game.

Boiler Up! Let's go win some games now.

I don't think it's even as bad as you described (and you are looking at it very rationally). The way I see it Illinois just played their best game of the year and won a home game. This happens all the time in conference play. Rutgers beat Wisconsin toward the end of last season.

While losing is far from ideal, in the long run it isn't going to matter too much. It appears the Boilers are heading for a 4 seed, so really it comes down to matchups and getting hot at the right time. It is a blow to winning the regular season title, but that's secondary on my wish list. I didn't see the team getting down on itself or each other as they were trying to get each other focused up until the final 2 minutes.

As long as the team grows a little from this, it's far from a disaster.

 

[PBoiler84]

I was at the game yesterday and here's my thoughts: Officiating was awful with the cheap fouls. At first both teams affected, but 2nd half hurt Purdue more. Illinois was hot. Even in warm-up shooting, I saw Purdue hitting about 70% but Illinois was hitting almost everything - never seen anything like it. Way too many turnovers by Purdue. Unacceptable in my opinion. On offense, we desperately need someone who can penetrate the zone defense - right now all we do is throw the ball around the arc and either launch a 3-pointer or try to force it into a big guy. Yesterday, Illinois was allowed to sag on our big guys and no fouls were being called.

 

[*4purdue*]

I was at the game yesterday and here's my thoughts: Officiating was awful with the cheap fouls. At first both teams affected, but 2nd half hurt Purdue more. Illinois was hot. Even in warm-up shooting, I saw Purdue hitting about 70% but Illinois was hitting almost everything - never seen anything like it. Way too many turnovers by Purdue. Unacceptable in my opinion. On offense, we desperately need someone who can penetrate the zone defense - right now all we do is throw the ball around the arc and either launch a 3-pointer or try to force it into a big guy. Yesterday, Illinois was allowed to sag on our big guys and no fouls were being called.

I agree about the officiating but obviously we were watching a different game than CMP because I didn't see him argue about 1 call. Meanwhile Groce was in the officials ear everytime down court. Until CMP changes, it's to easy for the officials to please the only one complaining.

 

[BuilderBob6]

I agree about the officiating but obviously we were watching a different game than CMP because I didn't see him argue about 1 call. Meanwhile Groce was in the officials ear everytime down court. Until CMP changes, it's to easy for the officials to please the only one complaining.

I didn't either.........but I was watching it on TV.

Kinda hard to see Painter when they're showing.....you know........the game.

 

[delish1]

I agree about the officiating but obviously we were watching a different game than CMP because I didn't see him argue about 1 call. Meanwhile Groce was in the officials ear everytime down court. Until CMP changes, it's to easy for the officials to please the only one complaining.

This is my favorite Painter criticism. He definitely lets the officials know it when he sees something egregious. I would think that's most effective than becoming white noise because you are constantly complaining about everything.

 

[Bigohh]

This is my favorite Painter criticism. He definitely lets the officials know it when he sees something egregious. I would think that's most effective than becoming white noise because you are constantly complaining about everything.

I agree with you. He certainly works them in Mackey as I sit near the Purdue bench and can see it.

 

[*4purdue*]

This is my favorite Painter criticism. He definitely lets the officials know it when he sees something egregious. I would think that's most effective than becoming white noise because you are constantly complaining about everything.

Rarely do I see CMP argue a call and I have sat close to the bench as well. In fact, the Michigan game there was a really bad foul call against Haas in the second half and Issac was complaining to the officials and CMP told him to shut up and get down court. I was watching the Iowa MSU game which Jim Calhoun was doing the color and he said as a coach, you have to work the officials most of the game. He said he felt like that was his job.

 

[BBG]

I agree with you. He certainly works them in Mackey as I sit near the Purdue bench and can see it.

Thirded. Announcers have even commented on him yelling at the officials.