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Gold and Black Radio: No. 1 Purdue heads to the Bahamas

by: Derek Schultz18 hours ago
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With Purdue’s return to the top of the AP rankings, GodandBlack.com’s Brian Neubert and host Derek Schultz break down Boilermaker hoops, look back at the past week and ahead to Purdue’s challenges in the Bahamas.

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And excerpt from Brian Neubert’s Three Thoughts column

This is the time of year for emptying out the box of Legos on the floor, organizing the pieces, making sure the right fits exist, then start working toward a finished product (while hopefully not losing anyone to the vacuum.)

It’s only been four games, not enough to assure enduring reality but enough to disprove the thought of warped reality. You don’t win a game like Purdue did at Alabama without things being real.

But the takeaway this far is that the discovery process of this season has gone almost picture perfect in terms of the Lego set — Purdue will hope it’s one of those thousand-dollar Death Stars — is coming together almost ideally.

Role definition is always the key for great teams, especially true at Purdue.

To that end, Omer Mayer‘s effort defensively has really stood out. And for a wide variety of reasons, that’s really notable.

Further, everything Purdue could have hoped to get from Oscar Cluff, it’s getting. This hit all Purdue’s needs right on the screws, not just from a productivity standpoint, but in the way he’s made Trey Kaufman-Renn and Braden Smith better and in the violently modest way he’s done it. Egoless grinders are absolute gold.

Returns thus far are that Daniel Jacobsen, CJ Cox and Gicarri Harris have been strong in roles, and that’s this team’s ticket. Purdue’s best players are what they are, but it’s Nos. 4-9 that really hold the key to the Boilermakers being the sort of team they intend to be.

So far, so good.

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