In the three B10 games, I thought Purdue played best as a team in a team sport in the following order: #1 Iowa - really looked like a team working together. #2 Ohio State - coming back together as a team but not as together as Iowa game. #3 Minnesota - least like a team playing together. Just an observation and not sure I am right? How would board people rank them as a playing together as a team?
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Purdue is one of the better in the country at playing as a "team". This is evidenced on both sides of the ball by having the third best assist percentage in the country and if I am not mistaken they also have a top ten defensive efficiency rating. Good "team".
Yes, I agree. Maybe using "playing as a team" is not really expressing what I saw. They just did not seem to be together-together in the Minnesota game. Maybe it was due to the quick start of Minnesota that disrupted the group dynamic.
Disagree.....osu game we only had 11 assists.....worst of the 3 games. The second half was particularly bad & hard to watch from the team standpoint.
Minnesota shot it very well, so naturally, it made Purdue look bad on D. Coach Painter could've gotten the team out of the man-to-man for several possessions, but he didn't because he doesn't practice any other D. That also factors into how the team looks.
I'm not really sure which of the last three games they played the best/worst together, but the Minnesota game was definitely their most sluggish first four minutes of any of the three games.
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