Tuesday, January 12, 2010
How did that happen?
Up 10 with 4 minutes to go. At home. That's a lock. Or rather, that should be a lock. They need to take this and learn from it. This kind of game won't kill you in January, but you have to learn your lesson and not let it derail a promising season. With the experience on this team, I don't think that will happen, but they need to step on teams when they're down and not let them up at all. Let this be just a bump in the road.
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I'd like to hope this is a bump in the road but I saw a lot of bad stuff tonight. We completely wasted a great game by Hummel, the bench players seem to stand around a lot and our stall ball game was quite ineffective. We continue to have all kinds of problem with a press. This removes any doubt as to whether LewJack will redshirt this year.
What the HELL!
Oh, hi Tim.
Now we have to listen to EsPN slurp up on Evan "Miracle Healer" Turner for the next 24 hours. Thanks for that great defense the last 5 minutes of the game.
I'm sick to my stomach.
Pretty horrible. I sometimes wonder if this glass jawed thing is in our sports programs' DNA. Was the loss at Wisconsin the equivalent of our loss to Wisconsin that ended the 2004 football season juggernaut on the spot?
Also, if you need any more fuel for the Purdue/Wisky rivalry flames, remember that it was a Dick Bennett-coached squad that kept Keady from his last shot at a Final Four in 2000, and which beat them 2 of 3 times that season, too (including in the BTT).
This sport has a much longer season with a much windier road, but say goodbye to the top 5 for a good, long time.
We need more production out of the rest of the team and NOT just the "big 3". KG and Kramer have got to start taking shots, Hummel and Smooge cannot carry this team in Big Ten play. It looks like the rest of the team is just trying to pass to an open or not Hummel/E'twaun. We're going way to deep into the shot clock, often giving the ball up to Rob or E'twaun forcing our leading scorers into taking terrible shots
Where has Wohlford been? Why is Ryne Smith not taking some pretty good looks that he had? And where the hell is the team that beat WVU?
I'm most worried about the disappearance of JJ. After demolishing OSU's 1-3-1, the switch to man SHOULD have opened up some space for JaJuan down low... just never happened. We need more than 4pts a game from him.
ding ding ding
Ryan hit the nail on the head.
A terrible performance from our Boilers, save Hummel. You cannot score 90% of your points from the 3 and expect to win. Even with OSU in the zone, we should see more attacking of the zone.
Am I the only one who would have gladly taken one of these losses in the non-conference? Now we're going to be behind the 8 ball again in B10 play.
I drove all the way down there from Chicago expecting something special tonight. OSU's 1-3-1 zone confused the Boilers from the start and the crowd was flat and bored until Hummel put on his 3 point shooting show. The second half started slow and felt totally out of synch. Thad Matta out coached Painter and Purdue's Juniors and Seniors disappeared in the second half. JJ was running away from the ball like a pussy. Looking at the Tivo of the game just now, we had this team beat and blew countless opportunities to put them away. (I'm DONE with Keaton Grant BTW) Tip your hat to OSU, but I'm expecting 6 straight wins and a 20-2 record heading into East Lansing... or else...
Yep, OSUs defense changes completely took us off our game. We couldn't handle the press at all and we just generally looked like a young team tonight. Guys didn't know wtf to do with all the different defensive looks OSU was giving us.
Matt S.: that Final Four, like this one, was right here in Indianapolis. A friend and I went scavenging downtown the day after and picked up souvenir shirts, so I have a long-sleeve T with the bracket filled out through the regional finals, just to remind me that I hate Wisconsin.
For whatever reason, outside shooting this year has been, by and large, terrible, with two general exceptions: Twaun from 3 and JJ from inside the arc. Nevertheless, Purdue keeps firing away as if it were merely a slump, and unfortunately I think games like Robbie's just fuel that impression. (Then again, if it makes coaches like Matta forget how he shot earlier in his career and leave him open like that, maybe they should fire bricks from time to time.)
According to kenpom, Purdue's 244th in the country in three-point percentage (31.9%) ... but they keep shooting despite being 43rd in two-point shooting (52.2%). KG, especially, needs to be looking for closer, better shots.
This is still a solid team, and there are still plenty of Ws left in the schedule, but man, they can't be having these 5- to 10-minute stretches of bad play against good teams. Return games with UW, OSU, and Minnesota (I think it's safe to assume their press will cause Purdue problems again), home-and-home vs. MSU ... 14-4 plus a tourney title would still merit a #1 seed, maybe a #2 depending on who else wins out, but that means no more home losses and stealing one of the three road games above.
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