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It's going to be weird cheering for Tennessee basketball. I'll admit, it'll be kinda nice to have fans of another team rooting for us instead of against us. Still hate to see Pearl gone, however. Do you have any thoughts on Martin as a head coach? I realize he wasn't a HC at Purdue, but you'll likely have more insight than I do anyway. He had a big hand in recruiting most of Purdue's higher profile players before leaving including the big 4 in 2007.
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You do realize his 2013 class is going to rival the 2007 class right? The 2012 class is nothing to sneeze at either. Really, he struggled recruiting 2008 and 2009. LewJack, Byrd, Smith, and Barlow are useful role players but that's about it maybe with the exception of LewJack who could be the #2 scorer next year. Bade is garbage, Hart doesn't do much for me and the jury is out on Marcius. 2010 he had two 4 stars and Carroll (a serviceable role player) - 2011 brings two athletic 6' 7" - 6' 8" forwards that Purdue is desperately in need of. He's had a peak of four 4 star players on the available roster. In 2013 he'll have 7 available to him and maybe 8 depending on what happens with the remaining 2013 scholarship (obviously that's if he stays). That's counting Lawson as a 3 star - I think some services have him as a 4 (and I think Hale is underrated). He's recruiting just fine now. In summary, Purdue had four 4 star recruits each of the last two years. Next year they're going to have four. 2012 they'll have five and 2013 five with one scholarship available . In his entire tenure at Purdue, he will not have had a 5 star player up until Kendall Stephens steps foot on the court in 2013.
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Not going to happen. If Purdue loses Painter, the basketball program won't exist... because I'm going to blow it up. The whole [expletive] University. So... make sure Weber pays a visit to West Lafayette within 24 hours of any announcement of Painter to Mizzou.
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Much like that Lincoln guy who proclaimed to twitter about Anderson going to Arkansas, this guy might end up right, but it won't be because he had any information. Painter is meeting with Mizzou tomorrow. I've heard he won't meet with them till Wednesday.
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I think you're really underselling Painter.
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It feels like a huge elaborate joke is being played on me. It's not a funny joke either.
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Where exactly are you hearing this from? I saw one person on Purdue's rival.com boards that posted this information and that reports are "surfacing all over the internet". Also, one Missouri sports blog is reporting that they have inside sources that say this will be announced on Tuesday. Color me sceptical. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sports-Horn/161039770604007#!/pages/The-Sports-Horn/161039770604007?sk=info It's funny. The last few years have brought about this ridiculous reporting of everyone taking a stab at the story so they can take credit for making the scoop. Whenever a topic pops up like this, everone starts winging their darts at the board in hopes of hitting a bullseye. This is a pretty good breakdown of it.... http://www.theboilingpoints.com/2011/03/painter-missouri-situation-still-sticky.html Thanks. This at least links a couple of sources together. It's going to be a long couple of days...
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Where exactly are you hearing this from? I saw one person on Purdue's rival.com boards that posted this information and that reports are "surfacing all over the internet". Also, one Missouri sports blog is reporting that they have inside sources that say this will be announced on Tuesday. Color me sceptical. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sports-Horn/161039770604007#!/pages/The-Sports-Horn/161039770604007?sk=info It's funny. The last few years have brought about this ridiculous reporting of everyone taking a stab at the story so they can take credit for making the scoop. Whenever a topic pops up like this, everone starts winging their darts at the board in hopes of hitting a bullseye.
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Purdue just gave up their 94th point to VCU. They gave up 88 points to Ohio State in Columbus in a game where Ohio State connected on 11 three point field goals and shot 55% overall. The most points they gave up all year besides this game was 76 to MSU in a winning effort. Tons of credit to VCU. Lots of credit has to go to the Boilermaker defense in this game too though. Unbelievably frustrating. I guess they missed Barlow's defense more than anyone thought???
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Hopefully that's all it is. No Big 10 love?
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At least you got Kendall Stephens coming in It will be a sweet 2 and a half years of anticipation. And there's no way this embarrassing loss will make it seem any longer...
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This is Purdue athletics.
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Why didn't I go to Ohio St. instead?
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Nice to know that Purdue can't get the call on a choke slam against Lewis Jackson. It's bad enough to have to watch Purdue look like a bunch of lobotomized sloths as they watch VCU run the same play over and over.
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So, almost all of what has been going around about Purdue/Barlow/Smith has been BS. The only thing that is 100% accurate is Barlow is in fact suspended for the rest of this year.
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But if you take out every one he made, the numbers don't look nearly as good. I know, I know. Ifs and buts, and all that.
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BTW, the way I see it is he shoots about 4.5 threes per game. He shoots at a 33.6%clip making about 1.5 per game. If he were shooting 40%, he'd be making about 1.8 per game. So, that equates to about 1 extra missed shot every three games. I can live with that.
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how about 40 games. is that a big enough sample size for you? last 40 games- 4.92 attempts per game 29.4 percent so for the last 40 games, he's making 3's at a horrible rate, yet he's taking them as much as almost anybody. you don't see a problem with that? i don't get why you can't mention this about rose, even though it's obviously something that is bringing his game down. i'm not talking [expletive] about rose, i'm pointing out an obvious flaw. he's taking 5 three's a game and he hasn't shown in his nba career so far that he can make them. so why is everyone so defensive when i bring it up? He has to shoot it. When guys are sitting 5-8 feet off of him waiting for him to drive, he's going to have to take that shot. When he sinks a couple and defenders are forced to defend his shot, it opens him up to drive. Also, you're cherry picking stats. 40 games back just so happens to be the start of a three game stretch where he went 0-11 from three. If you go 50 games back, it would include a stretch where he went for 25 for 48 from three for a whopping 52%. Yes, .336 is not particularly impressive or desirable for a guy that's shot 304 three pointers. However, the way defenses are playing him dictates how he needs to adjust. If teams are going to give him the three, he's going to have to shoot it.
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This one made my eyes bleed from the first sentence. Thanks for the head's up; it has been corrected. Can't have typos in year old articles making folks' eyes bleed. You clearly suck.
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If he was taking HGH, then I would would say he is stupid. The only thing HGH will do for him is maybe, just maybe, cut 0.01 seconds off of his time from home to 1st base. That's about it.
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We haven't won two games in a row since january. Won't happen here. I knew this was going to happen. It's historically about time for the big Purdue let down. I'm sure we'll see plenty of Illini fans teeing off on the Purdue fans after this game. :banghead: why did you say this? Do you still question why I said this?
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First of all, why do you put my name in apostrophes? Second, I guess I should have qualified my statement by starting out with "Based on the data, the conclusion I draw is...". Please excuse my faux pas. Third, thank you for that site. I've never heard of it and am looking forward to checking it out through out the upcoming year. Lastly, don't you think you're being a little high and mighty given the fact that you're using severely inadequate data? Sure, I'm making assumptions based on limited information available to us, and in fairness I shouldn't make such affirmative statements like the one I just partially contracted. Calling me out on that and presenting your own flawed argument doesn't make you more right than I though.
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It's not reliable to within 2-3%. LD% isn't even kept track of at some parks. So... we should really assume batted ball data to be an unknown? That's what I was doing from the start. But... that's only because I've never been able to find such info and always assumed nobody keeps track of it (which I guess is partially right) :lol: .
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Where do you get information on batted balls? That's a huge missing piece of the equation that I thought we did not have here. Obviously that's going to have an effect on my opinion.
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The good thing about Carroll is that he's already a solid rebounder, and he actually is a decent shooter. However, he needs to work on his footwork and his defense. He's not going to be able to take the tough, off-balance shots that JaJuan takes, nor is he going to be able to play 36-38 minutes per game. There's no way he's going to take JaJuan's place. The team will have a different dynamic starting next year. Carroll will need to rebound, get some clean up baskets, and man up on big bodies. I think he can do that. Improved speed and footwork would be great. He looks very clumsy in the motion offense right now. I think he can get better in those areas though. Look at Johnson as a freshman compared to him now as an example. Bade too. Even though he's not a solid contributor, there's no doubting the guy's footwork and speed is much better than it was as a freshman. His confidence on the other hand...