The ceiling for a hire will be Goshen College or Bethel College from our Administration. But heck, they have the best 3 point shooters our coach has ever seen. Wink.
Nah, you think too big for Purdue. Courtney Delks coaches a high school team right? Alumnus, basketball coach, female.... She checks all the boxes Bobinski will look at.
We got pounded in the paint and on the boards. 48-22 scoring and 42 -27 on the boards. Lana McCarthy getting called for two fouls in the first two minutes took away any physical presence down low. She came back in the 2nd quarter only to get another one called quickly. Not saying if they were fouls or not but I just wish they would make the same calls on all players of both teams.
Yeah Harper's been missing since at least the Ind st game. I only noticed because Puryear went down with an ankle injury in that game and we'd be pretty thin at the 5. Harper wasn't in a recent team meal picture either, not sure what's going on.
She definitely needs to be stronger with the ball sometimes.
Alaina Harper was recruited to get Caitlyn back for her 5th year. Beyond that she has no value on a Big Ten team. There is no reason beyond gross incompetence by CKG for recruiting Collier and Mahri Petree. Bass was the best pf the staff could land, but she is not a BT caliber player. She also seems a low motor kind of player, only interested in getting her points. You cannot call this a rebuilding year when you are playing transfer seniors the majority of the minutes. It's just a lost season with a coaching staff that has no idea how to build a winning team.
Pairing McCarthy and Gordon at the same time sounds like something CKG would do, but it would be a recipe for losing. Neither Gordon or McCarthy are quick enough to guard a forward that can shoot threes and put the ball on the floor to blow past them. Puryear might be able to play the 4 but that's not a given either.
I still see Jayla on the bench. I have no idea what is wrong with her. Obviously the coaching staff doesn't think it is any of our business.
Yeah Russ Ford, I see all your laughing at my posts like a hyena, but if you want to impress anyone on here that you know what you are talking about, you need to actually post something cognitive about the games and team but the only things you post are praising CKG regardless of her obvious failures and your infatuation with Smith, Jones, and other in state players despite their displayed complete ineptness at playing Big Ten ball. Neither of which show any actual understanding of basketball, certainly not at the Big Ten level.
I have to agree with Michael here,
Some truth to this…as I said, if money is available good players will come, maybe not the best of the best but a tier above what they’re getting now. I got no problems with adding Collier, she’s fine as a 8th/9th player used in a niche player role, no way she should be starting getting over 10 minutes a night though.
It will be interesting to see who plays with who. I still think they both will be on the court together more times than not.
Yeah good point, we've missed that go to person since Lasha left. Sure, she wasn't an all american, but she was able to get a bucket on her own here and there to release some pressure for our O. Sometimes a player like that could turn around a team. What does that 22' look like without her? Probably not 19-11.
Never said she could land one, said she needs to. Dont twist my words. We're not getting the next Beuckers or Van Lith, but maybe we can land an under recruited player that is good enough to play for Purdue, but not usc. I just said a Lasha Petree type would help, the USC's wouldn't be recruiting her to be a difference maker. This isnt hard to understand.
If you had said a Lombard level player, or an Ellis level player, I would not have argued so much. But those types of players are NOT good enough to make up for our crappy offensive scheme or coaching.
No doubt, I started typing up my summary in the first quarter(MSU game, not Iowa)because it was already over by then. You know I've been a defender of CKG but I'm rapidly losing faith in her ability. It is frustrating as a fan to see this kind of product.
Re: "Her ability to evaluate talent is now seriously in doubt with the idiotic comment that Collier is the best shooter she has ever seen when she has had a front row seat for 3 years watching Caitlyn Clark put a shooting clinic on against us. It just makes her look either stupid or with no ability to judge talent or someone that just pops off whatever stupid thing pops in her head and has yet to realize dumb coaching comments last forever and are things used against you on the recruiting trail."
So you really believe CKG was only referencing fts in that comment..... ok.....BTW I have a bridge I'd like to sell youRe: "Her ability to evaluate talent is now seriously in doubt with the idiotic comment that Collier is the best shooter she has ever seen when she has had a front row seat for 3 years watching Caitlyn Clark put a shooting clinic on against us. It just makes her look either stupid or with no ability to judge talent or someone that just pops off whatever stupid thing pops in her head and has yet to realize dumb coaching comments last forever and are things used against you on the recruiting trail."
There's plenty to criticize KG about, but your obsession to compare Collier to Clark to make up a phony critical comment about KG is getting old. Go back a read the discussion on on this topic last June. This was not a "stupid" statement. KB was only referencing shooting. I think Collier has near a 95% FT shooting percentage during her college career (last year she shot 96.1% (146-152) of her FTs). As previously indicated, that was the best percentage of the thousands of men's or women's DI, DII, DII, or NAIA players last year. So, you would rather have Clark at the FT line? Shooting open shots within her range, it is very plausible that Collier would hit a higher percentage compared Clark. KG made absolutely no statement about Collier's ability to get open or create a shot. In fact, KG has noted her lack of ability to do so.
I'm fully on-board with moving on to a new era from the KG experiment, but you are a making a "stupid" (using your words) argument on this particular issue that is isolated to only your mind.
I'm not really in the market for a bridge at this point in my life, unless it is a well-traveled toll bridge.
Of course you know that the previous posts on this topic referenced much more about Collier's extraordinary shooting statistics during her career. You also know the primary point made in my post. Absolutely, no counter argument from me on the underwhelming offense strategy for this team. I don't think anyone on this board (or even KG for that matter) thought she would be starting when she was a late addition.
I agree in part, I think CKG always had it in the back of her mind to start Collier if the opportunity arose to try and validate her NAIA backround by proxy through Collier.
