Purdue forced the basketball inside way too much again. Zach hung on to the ball way to long and bad things happened. When he catches the ball and you can count to 3 seconds before he starts a move, you can count on something bad happening. Nobody seemed to be able to shoot a 3 point shot, except perhaps the freshman. Fletch.... my God man you have to figure this out. If Gonzaga, who in my opinion is overrated, hit some more 3's this would have been a bad night. When Purdue pushed the ball in the second half, they looked very good. When Zach was option 2, or could get a rebound they looked great. The defense was improved, and Smith had a very good game. Dude reminds me of John Stockton. But when there are so many wide open 3's and they are missed, this game should be a wake up call. Dudes practice your freaking 3's. Conzo Martin is the prime example of how a dude can really develop this. I am back at Fletch. Dude, I would have been practicing shooting contested 3's all freaking summer. Ideally you would be the player that when the opposing team sees you open from a 3 they shout NOOOOOO!!!! Instead its meh. Practice this man. If you could kick the ball in to Zach, which is dangerous but your team seems hell bent on doing it, and he could kick it quickly back to you for what would probably be an uncontested or lightly contested 3.
I guess I don't understand why you are saying "Force the ball inside"? We have a 7'4 center that is pretty skilled. Are you suggesting that the offense should NOT run through Edey each possession? Because that is not what Painter coaches at all. He used to run motion all the time and then pivoted to more set plays that he and the offensive coordinator call from the sidelines on each possession. The big difference so far through 4 games is the defense is a ton better, Braden Smith is as good or better than last year and to your point Fletch seems to be pressing. I think he might be facing the pressure of having Lance Jones taking minutes but honestly he was inconsistent last season too from 3.
@@x8rdee3Loyer was simply awful tonight, no baskets, multiple turnovers and zero defense. Shocked he wasn’t benched earlier given other players ready to go
@@x8rdee3 So here is what I mean. Purdue walks the ball up. The defense is set. An outside guy is looking at Zach, and his guy backs off a bit. There is a high risk this pass will be stolen, but Purdue forces it inside. Next issue. Purdue gets the ball inside but Zach spends around 3 seconds (way to long) deciding if he is going to dribble OR pass the ball. This lets the defense lock in on him and it showed a ton in the first half. Now "if" Purdue had some deadly 3 point shooters, or hell even one very good shooter, then the ball could go in to Zach and there would be less double teams or even triple teams coming his way. Also he could take like 1 second, start his play, wait for that double team and kick it out for an "easy" 3. When Purdue pushes the ball and plays normal basketball, Zach shines because if they miss he is there for a rebound. If they want to pass the ball in to him when the floor is spread out, he doesn't think for that 3+ seconds and he makes a play. So this is what I mean by forcing it in. They did it a ton in the first half and it showed. Please note, I am not saying to never pass it in to him. Just that when everyone in the freaking stadium knows the play, you can't expect good things to happen. For the first time in a while I was praying they would take him out in this game so the team would actually start to play basketball again and stop thinking Zach is the next Shak. He isn't. But even Shak couldn't win an NCAA. Purdue got somewhat lucky here in that Gonzaga didn't hit 3's in the second half. In one instance Gonzaga got 3 open looks at a 3 in one possession! They missed all 3. Good teams won't do that in the future.
@@mic1240Yeah I like him as a human being and hope he can work this out. Also we never know if someone is sick or something but man he and I had the same points and I had one less turnover than him and I didn't play. That is unacceptable. I don't think the freshman kid from Heritage Christian is ready, but he is at least hitting some. Loyer really really needs to work on his shooting. When you have a 7 foot 2+ guy in the center, you will be open and you need to hit those shots. When you are not hitting, you better play our ass off on defense and not make stupid mistakes. If he is hitting 3's, and working on getting open, which Painter runs no plays to make happen, but if he did, and he was say around 50% from the 3, Purdue would be near impossible to guard. I remember the days of Indiana running, what seemed like 100 screens to get Steve Alford open, and I remember around the same for Woody Austin back in the day. I realize the game has changed but man, something to help get a shooter open might be in order. Then again he has to hit when he is open....
Purdue should pray they wind up a 2 seed in March so they don't have to experience the shame of being the only 1 seed to get bounced by a 16-seed.... twice.
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Purdue forced the basketball inside way too much again. Zach hung on to the ball way to long and bad things happened. When he catches the ball and you can count to 3 seconds before he starts a move, you can count on something bad happening. Nobody seemed to be able to shoot a 3 point shot, except perhaps the freshman. Fletch.... my God man you have to figure this out. If Gonzaga, who in my opinion is overrated, hit some more 3's this would have been a bad night. When Purdue pushed the ball in the second half, they looked very good. When Zach was option 2, or could get a rebound they looked great. The defense was improved, and Smith had a very good game. Dude reminds me of John Stockton. But when there are so many wide open 3's and they are missed, this game should be a wake up call. Dudes practice your freaking 3's. Conzo Martin is the prime example of how a dude can really develop this. I am back at Fletch. Dude, I would have been practicing shooting contested 3's all freaking summer. Ideally you would be the player that when the opposing team sees you open from a 3 they shout NOOOOOO!!!! Instead its meh. Practice this man. If you could kick the ball in to Zach, which is dangerous but your team seems hell bent on doing it, and he could kick it quickly back to you for what would probably be an uncontested or lightly contested 3.
I guess I don't understand why you are saying "Force the ball inside"? We have a 7'4 center that is pretty skilled. Are you suggesting that the offense should NOT run through Edey each possession? Because that is not what Painter coaches at all. He used to run motion all the time and then pivoted to more set plays that he and the offensive coordinator call from the sidelines on each possession.
The big difference so far through 4 games is the defense is a ton better, Braden Smith is as good or better than last year and to your point Fletch seems to be pressing. I think he might be facing the pressure of having Lance Jones taking minutes but honestly he was inconsistent last season too from 3.
@@x8rdee3Loyer was simply awful tonight, no baskets, multiple turnovers and zero defense. Shocked he wasn’t benched earlier given other players ready to go
@@x8rdee3 So here is what I mean. Purdue walks the ball up. The defense is set. An outside guy is looking at Zach, and his guy backs off a bit. There is a high risk this pass will be stolen, but Purdue forces it inside. Next issue. Purdue gets the ball inside but Zach spends around 3 seconds (way to long) deciding if he is going to dribble OR pass the ball. This lets the defense lock in on him and it showed a ton in the first half. Now "if" Purdue had some deadly 3 point shooters, or hell even one very good shooter, then the ball could go in to Zach and there would be less double teams or even triple teams coming his way. Also he could take like 1 second, start his play, wait for that double team and kick it out for an "easy" 3. When Purdue pushes the ball and plays normal basketball, Zach shines because if they miss he is there for a rebound. If they want to pass the ball in to him when the floor is spread out, he doesn't think for that 3+ seconds and he makes a play. So this is what I mean by forcing it in. They did it a ton in the first half and it showed. Please note, I am not saying to never pass it in to him. Just that when everyone in the freaking stadium knows the play, you can't expect good things to happen. For the first time in a while I was praying they would take him out in this game so the team would actually start to play basketball again and stop thinking Zach is the next Shak. He isn't. But even Shak couldn't win an NCAA. Purdue got somewhat lucky here in that Gonzaga didn't hit 3's in the second half. In one instance Gonzaga got 3 open looks at a 3 in one possession! They missed all 3. Good teams won't do that in the future.
@@mic1240Yeah I like him as a human being and hope he can work this out. Also we never know if someone is sick or something but man he and I had the same points and I had one less turnover than him and I didn't play. That is unacceptable. I don't think the freshman kid from Heritage Christian is ready, but he is at least hitting some. Loyer really really needs to work on his shooting. When you have a 7 foot 2+ guy in the center, you will be open and you need to hit those shots. When you are not hitting, you better play our ass off on defense and not make stupid mistakes. If he is hitting 3's, and working on getting open, which Painter runs no plays to make happen, but if he did, and he was say around 50% from the 3, Purdue would be near impossible to guard. I remember the days of Indiana running, what seemed like 100 screens to get Steve Alford open, and I remember around the same for Woody Austin back in the day. I realize the game has changed but man, something to help get a shooter open might be in order. Then again he has to hit when he is open....
Purdue should pray they wind up a 2 seed in March so they don't have to experience the shame of being the only 1 seed to get bounced by a 16-seed.... twice.
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