A closer look back at Purdue's 84-68 win over Illinois on Tuesday.
JADEN IVEY AND BALL SCREENS
I counted 18 possessions where Purdue simply threw Jaden Ivey a ball screen and let him work, the sort of role Painter said after the game last night his recent improvements from various perspectives has made possible.
By my count those 18 possessions resulted in 25 points.
This is just elite, this finish through contact from Illinois big man Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk.
In the second half, Purdue totaled 20 points on 11 possessions where Ivey was In a ball-screen. That's 1.82 points per possession ... but I should add that one of the scoreless possessions came because Zach Edey missed the front end of a one-and-one late in the game. I did count a possession where Ivey was blatantly fouled by Omar Payne with no call, but Purdue kept possession and scored off the inbound.
Ivey was 6-for-6 shooting out of ball screens with three assists (officially) but really four because Zach Edey having to clean up his own miss at the rim off an Ivey feed was a real-world assist but not a statistical one. He turned the ball over just once, and the game was over by that point.
Here's a great example of patience, again, as Ivey forces the switch onto Jacob Grandison, Mason Gillis clears out to lock in the switch and Ivey resets then attacks the mismatch, making a three over a defender wary of the drive.
And this is just perfection, reflective of a player with the game on a string at this point.
STUFF PURDUE DID WELL
• Purdue really put Kofi Cockburn in tough positions in rim protection with its dribble-handoff stuff for Sasha Stefanovic, throwing a bunch of action in his face and kind of leaving him off balance in the paint.
Here, Cockburn seems frozen between sticking with Trevion Williams at the elbow or sliding over to challenge Stefanovic on the DHO that Williams lifts out of. That gives Stefanovic a chance to flash behind Cockburn for a layup on the nice pass from Williams, with Cockburn inadvertently acting as a screener on Trent Frazier chasing Stefanovic.
To open the second half, this works perfectly.
Purdue just sets a high ball screen for Eric Hunter, then Sasha Stefanovic comes with a back screen on Cockburn to presumably make him have to think about the lob to Zach Edey. Cockburn turns his head and Hunter takes it to the hole for an easy two.
This time, Hunter comes as the trailer off Stefanovic's curl, which Illinois takes away, maybe legally, maybe not. Zach Edey pulls out of that hand-off and gives to Hunter and Cockburn is again left blowing In the wind in the lane. Hunter scores.
Really nice work by Purdue isolating Illinois' size and attacking him.
STUFF PURDUE DIDN'T DO SO WELL
• Purdue gave up a lot of great looks from three, starting with the apparent bad switch between Eric Hunter and Mason Gillis on Jacob Grandison's wide-open three on the Illini's second possession.
The reality is that the Boilermakers allowed a lot of really good looks to Illinois from long range and Illinois missed all of them after halftime.
• Illinois got Purdue a couple times on that action where Grandison screens for the 1, then flares out with depth to the opposite wing.
The first time, Grandison got the above mentioned three. The second time, Zach Edey bailed Purdue out with this block.
When Isaiah Thompson and Caleb Furst were in, they were all over it, but Illinois got Hunter and Gillis a few times to start the game.
• Purdue didn't do a great job defending the dribble.
MISC
• Jaden Ivey drew five fouls, probably less than half the number of times he actually was fouled.
• Purdue really threw a lot of different things at Cockburn defensively, bringing doubles sometimes, but not others, and bringing pressure from different spots at times. Purdue did a good job with that part of defending the big man.
• Eric Hunter did a great job on Alfonso Plummer in the second half. Give him a lot of credit there.
JADEN IVEY AND BALL SCREENS
I counted 18 possessions where Purdue simply threw Jaden Ivey a ball screen and let him work, the sort of role Painter said after the game last night his recent improvements from various perspectives has made possible.
By my count those 18 possessions resulted in 25 points.
This is just elite, this finish through contact from Illinois big man Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk.
In the second half, Purdue totaled 20 points on 11 possessions where Ivey was In a ball-screen. That's 1.82 points per possession ... but I should add that one of the scoreless possessions came because Zach Edey missed the front end of a one-and-one late in the game. I did count a possession where Ivey was blatantly fouled by Omar Payne with no call, but Purdue kept possession and scored off the inbound.
Ivey was 6-for-6 shooting out of ball screens with three assists (officially) but really four because Zach Edey having to clean up his own miss at the rim off an Ivey feed was a real-world assist but not a statistical one. He turned the ball over just once, and the game was over by that point.
Here's a great example of patience, again, as Ivey forces the switch onto Jacob Grandison, Mason Gillis clears out to lock in the switch and Ivey resets then attacks the mismatch, making a three over a defender wary of the drive.
And this is just perfection, reflective of a player with the game on a string at this point.
STUFF PURDUE DID WELL
• Purdue really put Kofi Cockburn in tough positions in rim protection with its dribble-handoff stuff for Sasha Stefanovic, throwing a bunch of action in his face and kind of leaving him off balance in the paint.
Here, Cockburn seems frozen between sticking with Trevion Williams at the elbow or sliding over to challenge Stefanovic on the DHO that Williams lifts out of. That gives Stefanovic a chance to flash behind Cockburn for a layup on the nice pass from Williams, with Cockburn inadvertently acting as a screener on Trent Frazier chasing Stefanovic.
To open the second half, this works perfectly.
Purdue just sets a high ball screen for Eric Hunter, then Sasha Stefanovic comes with a back screen on Cockburn to presumably make him have to think about the lob to Zach Edey. Cockburn turns his head and Hunter takes it to the hole for an easy two.
This time, Hunter comes as the trailer off Stefanovic's curl, which Illinois takes away, maybe legally, maybe not. Zach Edey pulls out of that hand-off and gives to Hunter and Cockburn is again left blowing In the wind in the lane. Hunter scores.
Really nice work by Purdue isolating Illinois' size and attacking him.
STUFF PURDUE DIDN'T DO SO WELL
• Purdue gave up a lot of great looks from three, starting with the apparent bad switch between Eric Hunter and Mason Gillis on Jacob Grandison's wide-open three on the Illini's second possession.
The reality is that the Boilermakers allowed a lot of really good looks to Illinois from long range and Illinois missed all of them after halftime.
• Illinois got Purdue a couple times on that action where Grandison screens for the 1, then flares out with depth to the opposite wing.
The first time, Grandison got the above mentioned three. The second time, Zach Edey bailed Purdue out with this block.
When Isaiah Thompson and Caleb Furst were in, they were all over it, but Illinois got Hunter and Gillis a few times to start the game.
• Purdue didn't do a great job defending the dribble.
MISC
• Jaden Ivey drew five fouls, probably less than half the number of times he actually was fouled.
• Purdue really threw a lot of different things at Cockburn defensively, bringing doubles sometimes, but not others, and bringing pressure from different spots at times. Purdue did a good job with that part of defending the big man.
• Eric Hunter did a great job on Alfonso Plummer in the second half. Give him a lot of credit there.
