The boilermakers pound the ball inside to Hammond and Hans and come away with a big victory tonight on IU's home court.
Purdue by 4 points in a tight game tonight at Assembly Hall. Drive safe on the way home.
Boiler Up!
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The boilermakers pound the ball inside to Hammond and Hans and come away with a big victory tonight on IU's home court.
Purdue by 4 points in a tight game tonight at Assembly Hall. Drive safe on the way home.
Boiler Up!
Tough to figure them out. Lose to Gardner Webb I believe and then North Florida but land 10-4 in the Big10 in the meantime.
IU had no answer for Purdues big men.
Seldom do Purdue athletic teams allow me to boast.
BOILER UP!!!
sweet 16
[QUOTE=kygorski;543756]sweet 16[/QUOTE]
I'd love to see the Boilers get better and go far in the tournament. It's been a long cold winter these past few days and I could use some good boiler basketball to watch. The Boilers have potential when they don't shoot themselves in the foot.
Like Steven's missing 7 three point shots and only making one three point shot for the game. When he hitting the boilers have the outside inside game. And Hahs, Edwards and Mathisis are only Freshman so they will get better with time hopefully.
I was really impressed with Hahs and Hammonds with their free throws. They said that the coach makes them shoot free throws after practice and has a shooting contest. That's smart coaching and they needed that. So proud of them in that department. They are also doing less fouling. And they are blocking out better and moving their feet defensively. Heck they even learned how to break the full court press and attack the basket. That's how you break a full court press. They failed to do that against Minnesota. So Painter is showing them how to break the press better. I was watching for that especially. I remember a few years back when Purdue was in the NCCA tournament and doing good until they ran into a team that did full court press the entire game. Purdue fell apart against that team. BTW that school's team and it's coach are still doing the full court press to this day.
Don't invest any emotion in them. They'll let you down....guaranteed.
In case some people don't know, I'm a Purdue grad.
Purdue doesn't graduate many pro athletes ( with the exception of a lot of excellent QB's) but they do a fine job in graduating excellent Engineers, Veterinarians,Business Majors, and in my case, Pharmacists.
Spent some time trying. Grandson graduate, actuary, grandson going into senior year, teaching.
VCU is still running that full court press defense with Shaka Smart as it's coach. The blew Purdue apart both offensively and defensively. And that was when we have Juan Johnson, Etwan Moore and a couple other good players that year. I'm not sure if Robbie Hummel was playing in that game or not. He got hurt against Minnesota and may have not been back in the line up for the tournament.
[QUOTE=Moveon;543762]I'd love to see the Boilers get better and go far in the tournament. It's been a long cold winter these past few days and I could use some good boiler basketball to watch. The Boilers have potential when they don't shoot themselves in the foot.
Like Steven's missing 7 three point shots and only making one three point shot for the game. When he hitting the boilers have the outside inside game. And Hahs, Edwards and Mathisis are only Freshman so they will get better with time hopefully.
I was really impressed with Hahs and Hammonds with their free throws. They said that the coach makes them shoot free throws after practice and has a shooting contest. That's smart coaching and they needed that. So proud of them in that department. They are also doing less fouling. And they are blocking out better and moving their feet defensively. Heck they even learned how to break the full court press and attack the basket. That's how you break a full court press. They failed to do that against Minnesota. So Painter is showing them how to break the press better. I was watching for that especially. I remember a few years back when Purdue was in the NCCA tournament and doing good until they ran into a team that did full court press the entire game. Purdue fell apart against that team. BTW that school's team and it's coach are still doing the full court press to this day.[/QUOTE]