WUG Scrimmage
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And Grady with 10 pts in 9 min. Nice
Cline and Edwards 2-10 from 3. Yikes. That's gotta change. Outside of Vince, that was a dissapointing effort from 3.
you know when you saw him last weekend in the scrimmage you could see a player vastly improved. When you look at stats only he is more productive than eden or Wheeler at this stage. Whether he beats them out or not, I'm not afraid of seeing this hard working, heady player hit the court so far...
Assists seem down from last year. It's early, so I assume that will tick upward as the year goes on, or this could mean a start for a little different, more fast paced play this year. We definitely have more athleticism than past years, so that could be a fun team to watch. That said, if they are going to start jacking up shots quickly, they better hit more than 30% from 3.
This was just a scrimmage. Don't know if others are also scrimmaging or not. Everything I have seen has come from the Purdue twitter feed and they haven't, to my knowledge, tweeted about others.
Nice 2 min highlight video of scrimmage
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Eifert and Taylor show a lot of tenacity and heart. They should definitely help this team!
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Eifert and Taylor show a lot of tenacity and heart. They should definitely help this team!
was this supposed to be a secret?
agree....he showed it this time last year to in Barcelona.......
He knows the system and is smart......he will add value when needed....
That's the biggest thing I took away from Grady's showing so far. He is a kid that, when needed to play due to injury or foul trouble...appears that won't be a significant drop off and there simply won't be a black hole on the floor on both ends. He provides what is needed on both sides. Think Kramer's offensive ability....nothing special but an ability to get what is needed....but Grady's will be simply that on both ends. A program needs these types of players in case something bad happens to not have a season tank.
I think Carsen is still simply pushing the edge a bit too much and rightfully so. He has a special ability and once he is able to fine tune of where to play on that razor's edge of where he needs to be, special things are simply going to happen. Remember, he is only heading in to his sophomore season so he has still less than a year in the program.
Haas, from what I have seen from the scrimmages, has vastly improved his ability with the ball in his hands around the basket. I believe he even put the ball on the floor a couple times against Canada and just appears much more comfortable in his feel with the defender at his back. I think Brantley really worked with him to get him to go both ways around the paint so defenders can't throw a double team from the same side and force him to be a single move player like he was at times last season.
Cline appears to have created an ability to dribble drive and at least have the ability to get into the lane. Whether he has the skill needed to finish, it appears that is still a question mark.....but that'll open his game up more like it did with Mathias last year. I'd like to see him jump stop and hit a 10-12 foot jumper instead of getting into the trees...but unlike Carsen (who really needs to develop that part of his game), he has some height to get the ball over the bigs in the paint.
Also noticed that Wheeler was essentially responsible for two offensive boards that led directly to buckets because of his effort tipping the ball to another Purdue player. That's the type of workman like effort that is needed on the boards to really gain an advantage in a game that can demoralize an opponent.
Overall, really like what I have personally seen from the team up to this point and win or lose....this only helps for the season coming up.
I just watched a four min. Clip of the game??? With Norway. My guess it is it could have 160-49. I would. It take much from the box score.
I suspect the clock being reduced reduces the assists on the whole as the team play is decreased and the individual play enhanced. Have I ever commented on my hate of the shot clock in general and specifically reduced to 30 seconds?
So...your telling me they are back.
Oh well. At least they aren't that shinny satin material.
.... yet.So...your telling me they are back.
Oh well. At least they aren't that shinny satin material.
These are beta tests, no investment in the shiny s**t.
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