Chase
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I know I got on him for the last two minutes tonight, but he plays hard and gives you his all. His mistakes are correctable.
His effort is there, that's all you can ask.
His effort is there, that's all you can ask.
If you want to see us win, you need to see Chase on the floor. We would have a hard time winning even a single BIG game without him. Whether you like him or not, there is no one on this roster that can take his place right now. He is also a huge part of the leadership that has gotten us this far this year. If you cannot see that, I don't know what to tell you other than if he was gone, everyone else would miss him a lot. If they did not it would becaue NU BB would have become so unwatchable that they just turned it off
Is he perfect? Heck no but then neither is anyone else on this team or on this board
No lie!! Audige is an imperfect player in a horribly imperfect bunch. But God love 'em for keeping it together and playing their asses off. So impressive!
After the game, Ohio State's coach Holtman pointed out that his star Freshman Sensabaugh had his worst game (1 for 8 shooting) saying "he is drawing all the best defenders in the league and it wasn't always that way earlier." Gee, I wonder who the defender was last night?
If someone can't appreciate him and understand how important he is to the team after seeing that, don't know what to tell you
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In fairness, Audige was also on Sueing a lot and he had a good game. But does not change the fact Audige is an exceptional defender.
In fairness, we can discuss all we want whether last season was conditioned by this or that. But the body of evidence we had last season was the previous season. And Audige's shot selection was abysmal.
Of course none of that denies that he is having a fantastice season. And still we crap on our players. In most cases, actually on our best players.
The other thing that's cool in the video is a glimpse into how they staff practice. I see BMac and Tailor Battle on the court but there was at least one guy I didn't recognize - tall white guy with short hair. Hard to run a full practice with the 8 healthy guys in the rotation, plus RDIII, Smith and Gus.
Ya' know.... after reading back through this thread, I'm starting to suspect that the OP is actually Chase himself and he posted that betting on the fact that a bunch of us would come on here and sing his praises in defense. These Northwestern kids are very crafty!!
Obviously, his shooting was crap. But do you really think his decisions were bad? The guy had a ton of clear, open shots. His production has been poor for a few games now ... except four fabulously blessed minutes.
Another would be Crawford playing a full season w/ Swop.
Crawford, Swop and Hearn would have been a pretty good trio, and if Cobb had remained academically eligible, a pretty good foursome.
You are right. He did. But as it's unfolding, Matt is not gonna take shots, Beran is offensively turtling in his shell... So you kind of give him a pass when no one other than Boo seems to want to step up.
At the end of the day you cat criticize him because he won the game largely by himself - not entirely by himself, several other guys made big plays on both ends of the court late. He was a liability for 80% of the game… but then he just told Boo he had it from here and took Purdue down.
You can’t argue with results.
His shots were off but hard to say he was a liability. His D was still sound as he made Loyer basically disappear
Most of he shots we good, just have to make them.
But, the one that was terrible was NU came down on a break late in the game. Edey was behind the play and Purdue had no rim protection. Chase pulled up for a 3 pointer instead of getting to the basket.
That was bad.
But, the one that was terrible was NU came down on a break late in the game. Edey was behind the play and Purdue had no rim protection. Chase pulled up for a 3 pointer instead of getting to the basket.
That was bad.
Impossible to argue otherwise in the first half. Dug us a nice hole.
However, Audige was ok on offense in the first 16 minutes of the 2nd half, then exploded with 10 points in the last 3:30 or so.