Wasn’t basketball. More like Rugby on a court.
What I just watched…
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Agree! I hate this game, but I'm not sure it counts for anything. This was not basketball.
Well, we have a player who is valuable for his offense that has disappeared and is struggling on defense. Will we find a solution?
3 separate times in the second half I saw MD get away with a call only to have it called on us immediately on the other side of the floor. Crushed the momentum
I try really hard to stay away from blaming refs, but this!!!!!!!! this!!!!!!!!! it was rape.
Maryland was not called for a foul until over 15 minutes elapsed in the first half. How does this happen? Again almost 8 minutes before one in the second half.
The BIG flipped a switch and decided no more foul calls when defending Edey. He's getting mauled every play. On top of that, our guards are bumped and swatted the entire way down the floor and no calls. Tough to put up points in that type of environment. Sucks!!!
The Big Ten office is most of the problem. You have a player like Edey you should be showcasing as a great example of what a student athlete should be and yet you allow him to be completely abused night after night. This has happened to many other Purdue players in the past too. Haas was beaten game after game too and it boiled over to the point that he was seriously injured.
I said 25 years ago that Purdue should get out of the big ten and I haven’t changed my mind. It is completely corrupt at this point, but most bureaucracies are.
raped 2 games in a row... I could have much easier dealt with losing either of those games if it wasn't for the blatantly one-sided officiating.
Or we could just stop focusing our offense around massive, slow footed centers.
think the slow footed forwards moreso than the Centers. I include TKR in the forwards
Or you could pull your head out of your ass. So not being the fastest player on the floor entitles others to beat the hell out of you, to prevent you from dominating them. Edey dominated a hell of a lot of better teams than Nw and Maryland this season, so what changed? Straight up beatings, that’s what changed.
When you’re playing a game where you pass to the post and get the ball back you have to score more than the other players are doing right now If you don’t the other team gets on a roll and you get left behind
Another troll on ignore.
Why is Loyer playing 35 minutes when we see him getting dominated and knocked around. Even Bardo said Maryland was going after him . He isn’t physically strong enough for that many minutes. Jenkins - Newman - Smith should play together more. Tonight they played about 5 minutes together
What I just watched was a team that didn’t look like they were playing together—-and certainly not like the team we saw beat Gonzaga and Duke that played together better than any Purdue team I can remember watching in my-lifetime. So… something is different.When a team isn’t playing together, it causes one to wonder if they ARE together? ( is there good off - the- court- chemistry on the team?)I sure hope so and I sure hope the team I saw tonight doesn’t show up again this season. I’m still very hopeful about what this team can accomplish going into March. but more lackluster performances like the one at Maryland sure won’t inspire optimism. Let’s go Purdue! BOiler-up and finish strong!
and contrary to Knight...we didn't enjoy it!
This team is garbage. Refs are 100% right every game. **** everyone. I'm the righteous fan.
Purdue does this every year. They get hot early then forget how to play basketball in Feb. and March. Honestly I think it's a curse. I will let you know when I am in the after life.
I know sometimes things make sense in our head when we first post them, but upon reflection there's no way you think this is in any way a logical statement. "We had the lead therefore foul calls were not a factor"
To be clear this is only a statement about your post, not the actual calls. I did not see the game.
We should have been up 15 at the half as bad as Maryland was shooting. 6-0 foul disparity was ridiculous.
The officiating kept the last 2 games closer than they should have been, then the home team got momentum, crowd came alive, and the boulder rolled down the hill.
When our cutters are knocked to the floor, and when our center gets the ball and has his arms literally pulled down and the ball slapped away, your offense looks bad because you are left with an outside shot only. How many times did Loyer, Newman, or Smith make a cut toward the basket and go sliding across the end line after a violent shove or hip check? I counted about 4 easily, and there were probably many more that just disrupted their movement, which should have been a foul. It was frustrating to our kids and very unfair that the refs did not enforce the rules. It makes for ugly basketball, and allows lesser skilled teams to beat better teams through rough play.
MD player brought the hand of Gillis to his head. No wonder he was upset.
No. What I'm saying, is that despite the claim of bad officiating, Purdue not getting calls, etc, they still managed to play through all that and have a lead in the first 20 minutes.
So, the question is, is the only difference in the 2nd half that the officiating changed, to the point of making MD 17 points better in the final 20 minutes?
Or......could it be the fact that MD made some adjustments on O and D and Painter/Purdue didn't?
Now, it's possible the 2nd half was officiated differently, but how many of that 17 pt differential are you going to blame on the officiating (as opposed to say....terrible shooting..15% from 3?)
I am wondering if Fletcher is in a bad mental place. He is struggling with every aspect of the game at present. Seems to have lost focus and confidence. Very hesitant on the floor, hoping that shots go down, not putting them down.
I see that as Mason hitting the ball out and no foul with the loose ball
You seem to think based upon your post that being mauled and poor shooting are not positively correlated. I disagree. If you are being unfairly beaten up, that takes a physical toll on anyone. The effect is cumulative. So then you get to the later part of the game and fatigue, heightened by uncalled fouling, demonstrates its effect through reduced effectiveness on shots.
Why is this so hard to understand? It would seem fairly obvious.
That’s like saying the mainstream media couldn’t possibly have helped Hillary in 2016 because Trump won.
See my response above to your last post.
I think that you are ignoring the cumulative effect of being beaten up early and during the game. It wears you down and its effects become more evident later in the game. I did not see MD do anything different between halves.
I think fatigue and a loss of poise caused the collapse. Gillis' tech demonstrates that rather clearly. It was a bad call to begin with compounding a growing sense that the refs are screwing Purdue. And it is hard to argue that is not the case.
If the team collectively believes that the refs have a conspiracy to collectively screw Purdue, then poor 3 pt shooting is the least of their worries.
