Is getting absolutely destroyed by Purdue. Goldin looks like Aaron Molnar (or pick your favorite NU center). Bricking 3’s, a bunch of turnovers, and getting pushed around. Michigan was 1 for 16 from 3 at one point. How could they look so good against us? It’s not who you play it’s when you play them.
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For one thing, Michigan was at home against us, and last night was at Mackey. But I would argue Michigan did not look so good against us, at least not until Leach was booted.
I agree with this. Michigan did not look as good as I expected when we played them. Goldin looked better - much more polished - than I expected. Wolf looked slow. Their guards weren't as quick as the good Big Ten guards. We probably would have beaten them had Leach not been ejected.
Against Purdue, Braden Smith was running circles around Michigan's guards and Wolf looked slow and pretty mediocre.
On the Purdue side, Painter is killing it this year against teams that don't have a point guard to match up with Braden Smith.
But teams that do have a true point guard are giving them trouble. (Ace Baldwin at PSU, Bruce Thornton at OSU)
Not disagreeing. Just pissed that Goldin went 3 for 6 from 3. Kaufman-Renn completely bullied him. He was never able to establish post-position.
For sure, but our game plan was focused on shutting Wolf down, which we did to perfection. It was unfortunate for Goldin to have a career game in that regard.
Having your team ready to play , physically and mentally, have got to be a major part of winning in the B10. Really averaging 2 games a week with travel and for some school, during the winter in the MW has got to be a grind and to me this is one of the things I think CC does well....we seem to have one or two clunkers a year but for the most part always seem ready to go.
Smith is a great player, not a good player. If he was on the Cats, we would be in the top 3 in the B1G.