I’m sorry but as a life long Purdue fan it bothers me when people just can’t live in reality. And reality is this:
1) We had a guy that couldn’t be stopped, not because he was talented, but because he was just bigger and couldn’t be moved. He perfected the 2 foot hook shot. You can’t replicate that with any 7 footer.
2) The rest of our guys were just bad. I mean let’s be real, what is Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer, Lance Jones without Zack Edey? I’m afraid we found out last night. UConn normalized Edey and we found out what everyone else was and will be next year.
3) Why were we playing the victim card after the game? That is such a bad look.
4) Everyone is thrilled with this year but truth is we won’t be back here next year. All our success was based on the type of player that just doesn’t come around again. Edey was just like Shaq of college basketball. Doesn’t happen, so this was our chance, and we didn’t do anything to upgrade athleticism with our starting backcourt and therefore were embarrassed.
5) IU has 5 titles and we have zero and that’s what it’s all about and pisses me off we can’t win.
This should piss everyone else off as much as me. Why are we acting like we are hanging a banner for coming close?