This is 100% wrong. We were an average 3 pt shooting team, mostly because it fell off later in the season, a pretty good ft shooting team and only prone to TOs on the press later in the season. We were one of the best rebounding teams in the nation which typically requires a pretty decent level of athleticism, since blocking out is a lost art anymore.
I love your blind loyalty, but you seriously lack any objectivity.
Can you just go ahead and hit me with the “I forgot more about basketball than you know” and get it out of the way.
I agree with you.
Our shooting was better early season, and it will be better in the future (including Loyer), but in general I agree this applies to the team we’ve seen lately. Despite being top 5 and even despite winning games leading up to the NCAA tourney, I think all parties involved including the team knew we had some weaknesses and problems we were struggling to meaningfully address. I have never seen a 1v16 game where the 1 team was so tight and afraid early. I agree we need more athleticism; we also need more guys who are unflappably confident. I thought that was Smith, but I think some underwhelming performances planted the doubt seed in his head.
Great post. We were never a real top
Someone mentioned the binary thinking in another thread and here is another example. If you build a team with the talent to win in March, they will win enough rock fights to get there. See also: Izzo, Thomas. You and I may not like it, but there he is again still dancing
I don't want Painter to be fired as that would be a disaster for Purdue, but you really don't think Painter needs to evaluate what he's doing that leads to embarrassing Tourney losses? For starters, how about not adapting in game to the fact your team is bricking over 20 3's and try SOMETHING different? I don't care how open FDU was leaving the 3 point line. It was their plan because the 2nd half of the season proved we can't hit 3's. The B1G is built for slow and physical teams to succeed. That fits Painter to a tee and why he probably gets away with NEVER doing anything different, ie., motion offense and man to man half court D EVERYTIME down the court. As we're painfully seeing, that crap doesn't work in the Tourney. He literally just got schooled by a FIRST TIME D1 coach who made the mistake of publically saying what he knew was true. Collapse on Edey, let us brick 3's all game, and FDU had a great chance of winning.
Yeah, Painter needs some NIL money to go buy a couple studs in the portal. We all know this.
Cheaters win. Self had just got caught cheating, red handed, and then is up on the stage with that NCAA quizling Emmert giving him the trophy a few months later.
Of course it's possible to cheat and get away with it. But, to call the tourney rigged is silly. Or, are you trying to convince me that cheaters win the title every year? Or, are you dragging out the exception to claim it's the rule?
You think Scott Drew is clean?
I'm thinking Lavin and Weber? Lavin is legit. Weber inherited some great talent and turned the program into mediocrity.
I was the one who used rigged, but what I meant by it is that it is setup to create upsets. I have officiated enough games in my life to know that while it may not be purposeful, officials get caught up in the moment when an upset is possible and subconsciously try to make sure they don't interfere with it. Take the two poor calls/no call at the end of the game. 1st one, the official is looking directly at the play and the ball obviously went out on the FDU player, but he didn't even hesitate to call it out on us. Then it took them ten minutes to change the call, when Stevie Wonder could have looked at the replays and figured it out in 30 seconds. They were trying to figure out a way not to change it. Then the no call when the defender blew right through an absolutely stationary Loyer, was ever more egregious and it was right out in the open for all to see.(And dumbass Steratore said good no call) I don't believe in coincidences and those were just two of many questionable calls and no calls. They only called 3 fouls on FDU in the last 10-11 minutes and I went back and watch the replay(painful) of the last 11 minutes and they missed at least 10 fouls they committed, several against Edey, of course. We didn't get any close call except the one they eventually changed and it wasn't close.
I agree we are the As. Should still be able to beat the Pirates and the Toledo Mud Hens.
And btw the Rays and Guardians have managed to make the WS with similar or worse financial situation as the As.
Let me put it another way: FDU would finish last in the sport known as B1G “Basketball”…
I can respect that opinion. Yes, u want the coach to run a clean program and develop players to be good players and people and be exemplary representatives of Purdue. That is important which I think Painter does better than most programs. However with that being said, the bottom line is the coach has to win games and unfortunately with college basketball, like it or not what most people care about and remember is what u do in the tournament. Fans and boosters are the ones that pay the tickets, buy the merchandise, and give donations that help support the program. Thus, when he is paid over $3 million a year, I think we are “entitled “ to voice our displeasure if we feel he is the cause of multiple years of tournament underperformance (and unfortunately national embarrassment recently). Again, I personally don’t want him fired…..just hoping he sees that what he has been doing is not working in March and is willing to consider some philosophical changes.
I was at the game when we played Davidson in Indy early in the year and that game concerned me..... It seemed like our opponents scemes and game plans surged ahead of the growth rate of our young guards....
