Haarms is soft. Being 7’3 doesn’t mean shit if you play like you’re 6’8. He’s never going to dominate.
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Haarms is soft. Being 7’3 doesn’t mean shit if you play like you’re 6’8. He’s never going to dominate.
He hasn’t done as well as the coaches that came before him: Keady, Rose and King all went further in the NCAAs. If anyone is “spoiled”, the spoiling came from coaches other than Painter.
Again, I’m not in the Fire Painter camp yet. But if we miss the tourney this year and next, and I think that’s a distinct possibility, then I think we need to try a different tack.
...and a historically hot shooting night for Texas. Let's not drop that part of the equation.
Well... we left guys wide open left and right due to our lack of team quickness...that definitely helped them.
We did that to stop the drives into the paint. We counted on Texas shooting poorly as they normally do. In defense you have to cheat on one aspect and bolster another in the hope of creating mismatches. Texas shot lights out, even with hands in their face. That happens sometimes.
Our lack of scoring is what lost us the game. Too few assists, too few people tying to score. Too many guys passing the ball to the next guy instead of aggressively attacking the basket. It seemed like when we got a couple layups blocked the guys completely backed off except for Carsen. Just my take.
Well, if the plan was to let them shoot open 3s, shouldn’t CMP have made an adjustment when Texas showed they could hit them?
best chance to win... not long term, against good teams... Keep in mind, Texas is not that good. Its disappointing how little most of the other players improved.
Now, don't confuse me with being an expert at this stuff. I get most of it, but the subtleties often get past me. I think the strategy was to have the 4 double down in the post when Texas drove the ball, cutting off the driver, which worked most of the time. However, the 4 must race back to his man in the corner and cover him if he is a shooter. Eifert was doing that well, but Wheeler was not getting back as quickly.
IIRC one of the Texas shooters had hit a single three this season, so we tended to leave him open. I think he buried 3 or 4 3-pt shots against us. So the prep work, practice and game strategy all had to be corrected on the fly. In my opinion, not everybody got the message.
Then again, I don't know if I could say with certainty that this game was lost by our defense. I think our offense did not play well. We shot poorly from 3-pt range, and we did not get balanced scoring. I would say the offensive end is where we lost the Texas game.
My Bulls with MJ
Pippen, Grant, Paxon = Great team
My Purdue with The Big Dog
Brantley, Waddel, Martin = Good team
My Purdue with Carsen Edwards
Nobody = Bad Team
Plain and simple
Do you think this is what happened with Ronnie Johnson? He was thrown under the bus?
