BTT Open Thread: Night games
I know there's an open thread at the bottom, but it might get bumped soon. Feel free to delete.
OSU and PSU in a tight game with Purdon't - SUNJ to come.
Purdue has totally ignored Haas this half offensively. I know they have a million 40% 3pt shooters but still, shouldn't you get your giant the ball sometimes?
from hearing Gus Johnson yell "HEAT CHECK" when C. Edwards launched his last 3 from space.
Purdue's bench is awful. They are gonna be really, really bad next year. Do they get any starters back?
They get Carsen Edwards back. I'm already sick of the kid. :)
Too tiny to go pro huh?
Also, when Purdue gets bounced in the tourney it'll be because of their terrible pg. Dude is like a fourth year starter and looks like a freshman out there
Rutgers is just destroying them on the offensive glass - wow.
of all the hand and body checking Purdue is getting away with.
Hopefully they've done enough to be off the 8/9 line.
than your opponent shoots usually works out well for you.
Purdue lighting it up.
Purdue just has so many options offensively. Also can't get a rebound to save their lives here. I have said they remind me of 2013 M a couple times....
Purdue deserved all those bricks and airballs that trip.
The Rutgers guys are so skinny. I guess they're not in the weight room too much. Are they in the community?
and such
a little better whistle. Not crazy, but just enough to matter late.
And Edwards was still moving.
Yes, he was moving, but it was the right call. It's a common misconeption that you have to be standing still in order to draw a charge. You don't -- you need to be in legal guarding position, facing the opponent, and the offensive player has to initiate the contact. It was a textbook call.
I was just a little surprised, because I saw the officials blow that exact same call at least twice in the MSU/Wisconsin game and at least 2 more in the Michigan / Iowa game. It's a textbook call, but apparently not all of the officials read the textbook. :)
Standing O
I'm hella impressed.
they had. Great effort
I'll give their kids a lot of credit -- they played out of their minds the last 3 days.
how to play like that consistently for a season, they could make the tourney.
That was the strangest string of 2 point jumper luck we've seen in a while.
I commented last night on the thread that nobody was reading anymore. During the Rutgers / Indiana game, there was a stretch where Rutgers made 9 consecutive shots (8 twos and a three), threw a three-quarter-court heave because the player didn't know much much time was left before halftime, and then made their first two 2s after intermission.
Given Rutgers' season-long shooting stats, the odds of them making 11 consecutive shots, one of which was a three, were nearly 18,000:1 against -- roughy the same as the chance of any particular MLB game being a perfect game for one pitcher or the other.
Maybe that's the effect of the World's Most Famous Arena™. Weird rims make good-shooting teams lay bricks and poor shooting teams do the improbable. :)