Matt Painter Purdue MBB Comments After Loss to UM
Matt Painter post game presser breaking down his team's play and what he sees in UM. Funniest comment is at wrap up. "This is the most productive ten minutes I've had at Michigan in a while."https://www.google.com/amp/s/wolverineswire.com/2018/12/01/purdue-matt-painter-michigan-basketball-dangerous-team/amp/ Opposing coaches are giving us great content.
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:21 AM ^
I hope no coach figures out a “crossing route” solution to beating this team.
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:25 AM ^
If we can just hold our opponents to 62 points, I like our chances this year.
December 2nd, 2018 at 9:09 AM ^
Too soon
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
Speaking of that. I knew there were a couple mgoblog articles I had missed recently. Looked back through and one was the story on Kinnel. Started reading it and just felt awful. Seemed it was really well done, but I couldn't continue.
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:44 AM ^
That’s what’s great about Beilein. At some point, some coach probably will. But Beilein will just re adjust and find a whole new way of how to beat you.
December 2nd, 2018 at 7:01 AM ^
Beilein is a counter puncher. I really think if someone were to find the secret to beat us, he’s got another trick up his sleeve. I mean, look at teams switching everything last year to beat us and give us fits. Purdue tried and failed yesterday.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:12 AM ^
It will happen because that kind of stuff happens everyteam at some point during the season. Sometimes it happens against a bad opponent and it doesn’t matter. Sometimes it happens in the national championship game. The ‘crossing route’ problem is the same one it’s always been: hope UM misses it’s open shots. Like what happened against Villanova. Just like OSU’s strategy was hope the best pass rushing team in the nation forgets to how to pass rush to se can run longer developing pass plays.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^
It was really damn jarring to watch Northwestern get to Haskins 3-4 times yesterday. I just don't understand what happened to Michigan's D-line in the last 2 games of the season.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:27 AM ^
Sick and banged up...the only logical explanation.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:35 AM ^
Winovich and Gary at less than 100 pct was enough. We had little to no pass rush after PSU......check the data.
December 2nd, 2018 at 9:59 AM ^
Good thing about basketball is that scheming against a basketball defense is just a tad bit harder than football
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:05 AM ^
Fouling at the end of games is pretty likely to be our hoops equivalent of crossing routes. That said, they did shoot FTs better yesterday so that's a positive.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:40 AM ^
Yeah, if a team is actually in a game in the last 5 or so minutes I expect to see them putting Z on the line a lot.
December 2nd, 2018 at 7:47 AM ^
Good sense of humor anyway
December 2nd, 2018 at 7:49 AM ^
one of the crazy things about this team (besides the D, Iggy, the toughness) is how this team makes opposing coaches like Painter and Williams just awed. Either with how well M plays (Painter) or how bad their team plays in comparison (how Roy Williams seemed last week).
These are experienced coaches who have seen a lot of success. And they are pretty amazed at how this team plays.
December 2nd, 2018 at 7:55 AM ^
Interesting comments that make sense. Thanks for posting.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:07 AM ^
Can someone explain to me what Painter was saying when he made the comment about the last 10 minutes being productive? I can’t figure out if he was being sarcastic, or if he was actually being honest.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:10 AM ^
He was referring to the 10 minutes in the press conference (aka the post mortem). Michigan has dumbfounded him into amazing press conferences before - this was just another notch on the lipstick case in the words of Pat Benatar.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:24 AM ^
+1 for the Pat Benatar reference. But with things like that, leave the name off and see who gets it - I think its more fun that way...
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:19 AM ^
Bonus- Roy Williams "We stink" and "I suck" press conference.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:31 AM ^
Odd comment, considering that Purdue won in Ann Arbor last season. Maybe he was conflating AA with the B1G tourney game.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
Agreed - the depth thing worries me more than the FT shooting (though both are concerns). Basketball isn't football, but we still see injuries and if one of those starters goes out for a few weeks we could be in trouble. We have Austin Davis in case Teske goes down, and maybe Brandon Johns if Iggy or Livers goes down, but we really don't have another option at 1-3 who has shown anything if Z/Poole/Matthews/Brooks are out for a bit.
December 2nd, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
I dunno, I think Teske is probably the hardest to replace. We haven't seen enough out of Davis but if he wasn't a significant drop-off from Teske he'd probably be getting some run. Especially in terms of ball screen D and rim protection plus rolling to the rim on the pick and roll. Z to me is the other person we couldn't lose because of how he directs the offense, limits turnovers, and obviously on his on-ball defense. Brooks ostensibly could run the point but it would be a hit and you'd probably have to play DeJulius 20 minutes with one or the other sliding to the 2 just to relieve Matthews/Poole for 10 minutes.
I think we could manage to play small if Livers or Iggy were out against most teams were out, but it would be a problem later in the tourney against bigger athletic teams. Poole, Matthews and Brooks can probably substitute in for one another enough. But yeah, injuries are definitely a big risk with a 7 man rotation.
After NW, we have our easiest stretch for 4 games. I know Beilein has always gone ~33 minutes for his key guys but i do hope we get some more significant minutes for the backups during that span.
December 2nd, 2018 at 10:50 AM ^
If we keep playing like this we'll end up as a 1 seed
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
Purdue blog/fan reaction:
https://www.hammerandrails.com/2018/12/1/18121426/u-g-l-y-purdue-57-michigan-76
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
I could be wrong, but you could almost feel a sense of resignation to their fate / relief that it was over from Hammer & Rails there.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:36 AM ^
U gotta like Coach Painter. Excellent review of both teams.
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:02 PM ^
Teske and Simpson are just straight up match up nightmares.
Teske is 7'1 260, can run the floor for 30 minutes a night, block shots, cut to the basket, has softer hands than most guards, and can step back and shoot the 3 and Beilein promises no Subs of he doesn't. How do you account for that in this offense with the fact you have to switch all the ball screens?
Then you got Simpson who is not only a great defender, incredibly strong for his size (credit to his dad), he is an excellent old school prototypical pass first point guard. He puts so much pressure on the other team with his dribbling skills he reminds me a lot of Chris Paul. Just an excellent floor general.
Its gonna be hard for teams to sneak up on us this year. When you're an elite offensive team like 2013 you had bad days where the shots aren't falling. This team as we heard Matthew's pride itself on shutting teams down. Even yesterday the had a couple bad 5 minute stretches of missed layups and turnovers. Purdue did nothing during that stretch because the defense is so smothering .
December 2nd, 2018 at 12:42 PM ^
Great game yesterday!! GO BLUE!
December 2nd, 2018 at 1:24 PM ^
Crazy to say this but we need the get into and win a close game so we know how it feels.
December 3rd, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
If I were actually a coach (which I'm not so this is likely not a good idea), I would do everything early in the game I could to try to get Michigan in some early foul trouble. Michigan is not yet deep so getting a Teske off the floor could help keep the game manageable for awhile.