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11-11-24 01:01 PM - Post#373971
Yale gets their first shot at a Power 5 team with a trip to West Lafayette tonight. I'm very intrigued by this match-up - Purdue's strength is in its guard play, and they just lost their starting center for the year. I think Yale has a real chance to make things interesting, provided that they play with the controlled aggression that we saw in Game 1.
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11-11-24 09:27 PM - Post#373991
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Sorry on Daniel. He is a good kid. Played w my nephew at Brewster. But Purdue will have other 7' 3 guys. Haha
Not sanguine at Mackey but hope Samson starts to show his talent. Yale needs it this year and he's more than capable to owning the paint in the ivy. Right now
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penn nation
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11-11-24 10:07 PM - Post#373994
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Yale gave Purdue some trouble inside in the first half.
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11-11-24 10:24 PM - Post#373995
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For a team that lost a talent like Wolf (plus two important seniors), they look like they haven't missed a beat out there.
Will likely fall short tonight but they are giving Purdue quite the battle.
Edited by penn nation on 11-11-24 10:25 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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11-11-24 10:52 PM - Post#373996
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One of these two teams tonight is well coached.
It's not Purdue.
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11-11-24 11:10 PM - Post#373997
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Those last two 3s by Poulakidas were absurd. Purdue has given him zero room tonight and has often double teamed him, degree of difficulty to make these was off the charts.
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11-11-24 11:27 PM - Post#373998
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Had plenty of chances.
Left too many at the foul line (gross) and non-pouli 3 pt shooting.
Tos better. Pouli is a stud. And Samson emerged. This bodes well. Pounded them in the paint. Even without Daniel of you can do that to Purdue then there is serious potential here.
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11-12-24 12:00 AM - Post#373999
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Best chance was with the ball down 6, but Gharram turned his ankle (and the ball over) while ball handling, had to briefly leave the game and Yale never got closer than that the rest of the way.
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11-12-24 12:12 AM - Post#374000
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Yale shot 50% from the foul line
Doubled purdue in the paint.
Braden lit them up in drop coverage. they have two dead eye shooters at 1/2. Most encouraging was Samson.
The ivies do not have the size and or the shooting. Might have one do not have both.
If Samson plays like the kid everybody in Texas wanted this team has real potential. Schematically not over dribbling and having a finisher opens it all up. V encouraged! after a debacle against UIC in the 2nd half
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Still need a bench shooter -mullen brathwaite and fox all candidates. But need this
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11-12-24 12:19 AM - Post#374001
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Inversion: Purdue needed to shoot 50% on volume 3s and have Yale shoot 50% from the foul line for Matt painter to beat his buddy James Jones at Mackey by 8.
A Yale squad that played 2 freshman and 2 sophomores real minutes. The frustrating part is we used to be older than the big boys. Now we're younger. Build on this!
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11-12-24 07:50 AM - Post#374003
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have always been a Matt painter fan since he was a player at Purdue...his postgame presser was great on scheduling...why play Yale...the net rankings...some nuggets
But the biggest takeaways:
Spoke highly of bez's defense specifically noting it is hard to go under ball screens and find your man "joker can play defense"
Said on "john"...has a chance to make a lot of money playing basketball. If you can "strike" like that...
Then does a Yale infomercial.. on how you can make a lot of money graduating from Yale too. 2 dreams-we education and ball he is living both
Glad I watched it. Painter is a straight shooter and a good guy in what can be a slime bucket profession at the top
He also said Yale had a chance to win because they were straight up on possessions. And of course noted this was far from a neutral court game
He didn't mention the putrid ft shooting Purdue benefitted from.
Death. Taxes. Matt painter. Haha
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11-12-24 11:45 AM - Post#374025
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With Mbeng and Pouli you can beat any one of the Ivies "on any given night".
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11-12-24 11:49 AM - Post#374027
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I'd add Aletan. He is going to be unstoppable in Ivy play.
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iogyhufi
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11-12-24 12:26 PM - Post#374030
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I was at the game, and it was absolutely night and day from the UIC game. Yale took every punch Purdue had to throw and came back every time. They didn't quite have enough to push it over the line, but it's still a very gritty, impressive performance against a top 25 team.
Outrebounding a team with Purdue's size to the extent that Yale did is insane to me. 30% ORB against a Big Ten team in their own house is just unheard of (though doing it against a Big XII team in Providence is totally heard of). I'm not sure whether the Ivies will have any counter on the glass.
Also, Minnesota should be very worried.
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11-12-24 12:33 PM - Post#374031
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I was so befuddled by Samson's role so far.
Some was self imposed. Some wasn't.
But Sometimes the mentality of being an effective old school big just takes a while to click in d1 or any level.I am hopeful bc his physical tools are off the charts. He is longer than wolf just not as tall and is quite powerful in lower half for his height.
Comes down to how bad he wants it.
I wld also like to see him dunk more. He will.
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11-12-24 12:34 PM - Post#374032
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Cool you were there man!
let's hope...
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Re: ball screens
11-12-24 03:25 PM - Post#374035
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In watching the game, one of the things I noticed was Yale's propensity for going under screens. I thought that was going to be a problem, and it turns out that it was.
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Re: ball screens
11-12-24 03:53 PM - Post#374037
In response to weinhauers_ghost
The color commentator kept on chiding Mbeng in particular for doing this as it was clearly not working.
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