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Message: [QUOTE="superjohn, post: 5346129, member: 1522"] It's Edey and just looking at stats doesn't tell the story of that game and why we blew them out. UConn's entire strategy for that game was Clingan is playing Edey straight up no matter what and we're putting everyone else in a straightjacket. Edey was playing out of his mind early making shots he doesn't typically make and never once did we send any doubles or anything to try and throw him off because we weren't going to let their perimeter players go bombs away. Other teams always sent help and always got beat by the other guys from outside... Edey had 16 points with 6 minutes left in the first half and then didn't score a point until there was 14 minutes left in the game when he hit a ft, he was 0-6 from the field during that time and UConn was up by 13. The game was effectively over with Purdue never again putting any game pressure on UConn. Edey scored 15 points when the game was a blowout and it was straight up garbage time where he was clearing Karaban out for dunks. Purdue never had a chance in the game because we had the luxury of never having to double team Edey once knowing none of their other players could get open shots. When you say we couldn't have won without Khalid, that's true but of course we couldn't have won without Rip who was hands down our best player. We could withstand Khalid playing terribly like he did in the elite 8 against Gonzaga going 0-12 from the field or Khalid scoring just 12 points with 6 turnovers in the national championship game against Duke but we couldn't withstand those type of performances from Rip. We needed Rip to score 20+ each night with around 50% shooting which he always did. [/QUOTE]

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