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| BoilerFan24 | Oct 29 2009, 12:47 PM Post #16 |
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Why? because IU is not in it? How can a top 25 be boring? I'm guessing the only reason you said that is to try to diminish Purdue's number 7 ranking...not that you would ever admit that. Edited by BoilerFan24, Oct 29 2009, 12:48 PM.
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| Unbiased | Oct 29 2009, 12:49 PM Post #17 |
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look at all the no-names in there: Dayton, Turdue, Minnesota etc the top 25 looks like an NIT tourney |
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| BoilerFan24 | Oct 29 2009, 12:50 PM Post #18 |
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There are no names every year... |
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| sirbrianwilson | Oct 29 2009, 12:57 PM Post #19 |
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because preseason rankings mean nothing. br |
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| boilerup86 | Oct 29 2009, 01:05 PM Post #20 |
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Terone Johnson is top 50 and Anthony Johnson was top 50 prior to injury. Not to mention Terone has been impressing lately. So if both Johnson's pan out and we get Dawson... looky there we have a talented core of 3 players. Add Davis from the 12 class and I think we are ok for at least the immediate future. |
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| dçamden03 | Oct 29 2009, 01:09 PM Post #21 |
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You're not going to convince him, or most others here. Purdue recruiting is just fine. |
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“He’s always been a guy — maybe to a fault — he would always try to do what I said. That seems like something simple in coaching, but those are the guys I hang my hat on. We’ve had some guys in our program, we had a couple guys that felt I had a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. And they were right — I do have a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. I like guys that go to class, that are academic All-Americans, that come early, that stay late, that love the game of basketball. I am biased towards those guys. And I’m biased towards Rob Hummel. But I’m also biased towards their habits, their work ethic, and how they carry themselves." "I’d take him to the ends of the earth — I’d want him playing for me.” - Bo Ryan on Robbie Hummel
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| Unbiased | Oct 29 2009, 01:16 PM Post #22 |
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by turdue standards - yes. |
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| brumdog44 | Oct 29 2009, 04:06 PM Post #23 |
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Looking at the rankings, I think 90% of those polled went to the University of Michigan. |
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| yawnzzz | Oct 29 2009, 05:30 PM Post #24 |
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That's what I was thinking... I was pretty shocked to see 5 Big Ten teams in the top-20. |
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| Bobobinc | Oct 29 2009, 05:57 PM Post #25 |
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Hand checking is a foul in college basketball. period. Purdue's defense is in your face man to man. Try watching a game with the volume up and listen to what is said. It wins us a lot of games. You really have no clue what you're talking about. |
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| brumdog44 | Oct 29 2009, 09:12 PM Post #26 |
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Purdue's not a 'plodding' team. They are pretty much NCAA D1 average...their tempo (number of possessions/game) was ranked 146th last year. Wisconsin is the definition of plodding.....ranked 334th last year. But the picture of the Big Ten as being a slow down, plodding conference is accurate. Last year's tempo rankings: Purdue 146th Wisconsin 334th Indiana 164th Michigan State 126th Illinois 270th Ohio State 290th Penn State 310th Michigan 279th Minnesota 214th Northwestern 329th Iowa 341th I'm not sure how this translates to Purdue 'slowing it down.' Purdue, Michigan State, and Indiana were the only teams in the upper 50% of D1 in terms of tempo. |
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| Boiler_22 | Oct 29 2009, 09:16 PM Post #27 |
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Im not sure how they figure these stats but wouldnt teams like NW and Wiscosin hurt teams like Purdue and MSU in rankings like this? So these rankings could be a little misleading. |
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| boilerup86 | Oct 29 2009, 09:19 PM Post #28 |
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Even if the statistics are skewed a bit because of Wisky and NW, Purdue is by no means a run and gun team first. They just seem quicker relative to the best of the Big Ten. I'm not surprised these statistics at all. |
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| brumdog44 | Oct 29 2009, 09:27 PM Post #29 |
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No, the rankings are actually 'adjusted tempo'....meaning it accounts for an opponent typically does. |
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| Evilempire | Oct 29 2009, 09:45 PM Post #30 |
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But wouldn't being a top 50 team in steals lead to more 'cheap' possessions.....such as fast breaks and breakaways. So it's not that Purdue is really playing a faster pace, it's that they are not allowing the opposing offense to chew up as much clock. And just because you are in the top 150 in pace, that doesn't mean you are an uptempo team. The only way to know if a team is 'plodding' or not is to watch them, not by comparing a single stat to the other 300+ teams in the NCAA. For example, is a team that might be ranked 40th in FT shooting a good free throw shooting team?..........well, maybe relative to all of the other teams......but they might only shoot 65% and that just happens to be good enough for 40th place. I don't think anyone would confuse Purdue as an uptempo team in any sense of the word......unless you are strictly comparing them to all other teams from last year.........which doesn't really tell you whether a team is uptempo or not.....it just tells you how many other teams get fewer possessions than they do. |
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