The NW game is the only loss this year that you could blame on the officiating.
Edey has limitations defensively that pretty much force us to play that drop coverage when he’s in. When JHS is hitting that midrange, we really can’t stop it.
Not this game, not tonight. This loss was on us and the way we played.
Did not see or read one comment to that affect regarding that with regards to this game.
That’s true against certain opponents. Zach doesn’t need to be as soft in his drop coverage if you don’t have TJD behind it. You’re 100% right tonight but the lost of oppornents who can exploit it as IU did is fairly short.
Totally Ghost.
Like to see him in the middle of a 2 - 3 zone every once and awhile. Could stop the high post pick that has been killing us lately!
You could say that about every loss in the history of basketball. Yeh, hit a few more shots and it's a different game. Duh.
There are several things that could have been tried but weren't. I've been around here too long to go down that rabbit hole, but I will say that putting Newman on him instead of Morton is not the only thing that could have been tried. CMP won't do it, but there were other options to try other than just putting a different guy on him.
Purdue been scouted and how to play D against them is now well known:
Yeah, Morton’s man doubling Zach isn’t going away until he starts consistently hitting the 3 ball.
Wasn't a blowput but Indiana controlled the game the 2nd half and kept it about 10 points for most of the half.
Morton's not going to magically become a 45-50% 3 pt shooter. Any team will be happy to let him launch 5-6 threes. Clearly teams are going to leave him open on the double team and hope that's where Edey goes with the pass.
What I would like to see in this situation is for Morton to drive and if someone helps off their man to stop the drive, kick out to the man they left or maybe he can get into range for a 15 footer and knock that down. At least it wouldn’t be an empty trip.
He doesn’t have to get to 45%. 36-38% would be good enough.
I can count on 1 hand the number of times Morton has taken it hard to the hole with the intention of scoring or drawing a foul. It's just not part of his game. He's a pass first, pass second player and unfortunately, the other team knows this and is going to hedge the D away from him and make it tougher on other guys.
Oh yeah, it’s a pipe dream. But it’s just what I wish would happen.
Dare the entire Purdue roster to put it on the floor.
Actually this type of shooting from three has happened a number of times in the past ten games.
Tired legs I suspect. Smith, Loyer, Gills and Furst are all good shooters. In the IU game none of them could throw a rock into the ocean, etc. If they had shot like they did during the first half of the season, we could have walked away with a V.
They had a week off before the iu game......they're 18-22 year olds. They don't get tired legs.
Are you ok? Do you need a hug?
Well if 93 year old Mike Woodson says it, it must be true 🤣 Hell, Woodson thinks Izzo is a young man.
Stop slurping Izzo! He's about five years older than Woody. Fran and Woody are also basically the same age.
It's different when they're good shots. I'd say at least 80% of our shots would be considered quality looks. It's different when you shoot 35% with most of them being contested or bail-out attempts.
Career: 54% from the field 36% from 3. Not too bad for a 6-10 player. I'd gladly take 36% from 3 for the team the rest of the year. In fact, I'd go so far to say that if we hit 36% from 3 in the tournament we don't lose. It's what is either going to propel us to the FF or an early exit.
