Agreed that they have huge potential. I'm cautiously optimistic we can keep them by continuing to develop the right culture and being able to pay them market value. The teams with strong continuity have been able to keep redshirt players. Purdue's leading scorer, Trey Kaufman-Renn, used a redshirt year and so did contributors Camden Heide and 7'2 Will Berg. Caiden Hamilton used his redshirt for Marquette last year and is coming along playing for them now.
DePaul, Tue., Dec. 17, 6:30p, Peacock
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Really impressive win, but we smacked K St. & DePaul who aren't very good and at home.
Do that at PC, and yeah that will impress me, always hard to smack a team on the road.
Just trying to not get to excited yet.
Do that at PC, and yeah that will impress me, always hard to smack a team on the road.
Just trying to not get to excited yet.
Team looked great overall. Played inspired defense and was even better on offense. Free throws didn't fall but that is really the only thing to harp on. Only 30% from three but they didn't need it and weren't really looking for them so let that slide.
Would have liked to see Scott get more involved but he's been good enough you can live with this one. Needs to get his three ball back. Will need that.
Good to see the back end of the bench get some work. Don't know how many of those guys we can't truly trust, though. I think we had 85 with 6 minutes left when Rick emptied the bench. We ended with 89....
Would have liked to see Scott get more involved but he's been good enough you can live with this one. Needs to get his three ball back. Will need that.
Good to see the back end of the bench get some work. Don't know how many of those guys we can't truly trust, though. I think we had 85 with 6 minutes left when Rick emptied the bench. We ended with 89....
The FT line was really just Kadary in the beginning, and then some misses late by guys who won't be shooting them late in close games (Prey and Maker each missed one, for example).
Besides, I don't know if I want to waste a great FT shooting performance on a blowout like this.
I would say the negative from tonight was the substitution pattern.
Start Scott in the first half, them bench him, then yo-yo him in/out, then bench him again. I can tell you he was not happy about any of it.
Start Wilcher, he's on fire, put him on the bench and forget about him forever so he's nice and cold when he comes back in (from which he made a nice recovery).
Play Vince but don't play Prey.
Related: leave Zuby in with a 30 point lead.
Put Dunlap and Scott in who both need a confidence boost from hitting some open 3s ... But put Luis on the floor with them ensuring that every play will go to the rim.
I can't argue with the score but with this roster and how one dimensional DePaul is that was pretty much a foregone conclusion. Just don't understand the playing time and rotations and I don't think the players do either.
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I know that Pitino has always been a proponent of the three point shot but this roster seems better suited shooting two pointers. Just about every player is going to shoot a much higher percentage shooting twos and will struggle to make more than thirty one or thirty two per cent shooting threes.
I wouldn’t expect them to stop shooting threes but most would be better off avoiding those threes in the early stages of the shot clock.
I wouldn’t expect them to stop shooting threes but most would be better off avoiding those threes in the early stages of the shot clock.