Natty ThoughtZ TM

[RichZ]

1. Spencer draws Edey away from bucket and drops it to Clingan for a dunk and an early lead.
2. Diarra! Love the way we often turn seemingly broken plays on the perimeter into wide open layups, and he is almost always involved.
3. Half way though the first half, foul trouble rearing it's ugly head. For both teams, really.
4. Obvious goaltend on Edey not called at 5:45.
5. Last possession of the half, worked it beautifully for Spencer's floater. That's usually a near guaranteed bucket. Shot didn't fall, but it was an otherwise perfect execution. As long as we work our plays like that, we should be good.
6. At the half, Purdue has played 4 of their bench guys and gotten zero points from them.
7. Tristen leading us in scoring with 11, Castle leading us in boards and assists (4 & 3).
8. Speaking of assists, we have a 7 to 3 edge, but that's an uncharacteristically low number of dimes for us in a half.
9. It's early in the 2nd half, we're up by 9, and I think if we could get 3 consecutive stops and score on at least 2 of the ensuing possessions, I'd at least be able to breath.
10. Back court violation on Purdue leads to a dunk by Samson. Gets the lead to double digits. Wash, rinse repeat and it's 13.
11. Diarra's 3 is deadly when he has a second, but not so great when he's rushed. His layins though, are always pretty. 16 point lead off his layin on the break.
12. Mid-teens advantage from about 6 minutes into the 2nd half.
13. We won every column in the box score except steals which were tied at 3.
14. There were a bunch of ties in the first half, but we never trailed after taking a lead at 17:53 of the first.