has there ever been a team better at breaking a full court press? i knew the game was signed sealed delivered once they started trying it. we'd turn it into a 2 on 1 or 3 on 2 at the other end every time but nah just pass it back out and burn some clock. muahahah.
I thought they took the air out of Purdue's hopes.
When we brought Samson in with 4 fouls I texted friends “can we get 4 minutes out of him? Doubt it. Let’s just get a few quick dunks.”
Our press break felt so insanely easy last night. I think we TO once, but otherwise we just pass pass pass through it. Ez.
Why the hell are those 2 alley-oops missing from the extended highlights?! They would be around 14:00, 2nd, between Castle's putback and Spencer's lay-in over Edey.
On both of those plays, Newton threw the alley-oop at the perfect height -- Edey was too tired to get off the ground to deflect and Johnson caught it right at rim height.
That was a sneaky-important play after Castle barely missed a 3 that would have pushed it to 20 and Purdue scored 4 in a row to cut it to 13 with Clingan on the bench. Johnson, not a great passer, making that play, while Karaban slipping by Edey, was big.
Samson's block and floater is what iced Illinois as well
There were a lot of clutch shots (especially Cam's) at critical times but at this shot by Karaban I stood up in my living room and yelled DAGGER. Felt like the life was drained out of Perdue. I heard Hurley say in an interview this past week (paraphrase) "we are just going to keep coming at you knowing you are going to crack at some point; we don't know when but we are confident you will crack."
Coach said in an interview when they went small, it was to have 5 people capable of breaking the press. Let Edey get his 2's, no 3's, no "and 1" 3's or no fouls on 3's. Alex battled the giant Edey hard and didn't foul, just let him work for his 2's and they either matched or got our own 3 on the other end.
I think they called it out of bounds. Hurley was standing out of bounds, touched Spencer, and Spencer had the ball.
That was my first thought. Two big Samson dunks in a row and Purdue lost all self esteem
It sure looked like an easy goaltending call.
At first, I could not process what I had just witnessed. Coach Hurley stepped out onto the court and pushed Cam to run a set. In retrospect, High Knees Anderson couldn't process it at first either.
That's bc Painter knew and had been screaming at the refs for a while about it.A couple times the refs started the 5 count before we even had the ball and Alex had to hustle to get it in. They knew what we were doing.
Reminiscent of Bazz pushing Boat into position in '14 against Kentucky!
I saw Andrew Hurley push someone into position at the end of the game a few games ago. Maybe he does that in practice?
