Brick City

Opening statement: We didn’t have anything in our tank and generic quotes about being humbled.

None of its in our hands. The only thing we can do is win basketball games and today we didn’t have the effort we needed to. Everything regarding is in their hands. All we can do is practice and go wherever they send us.

Mentally we weren’t ready to play three games in three days. We need to keep this sour taste in our mouth and use it as motivation. Minnesota played harder and we need to flip that and use it on someone else.

We played the first half without Lew. Optimistically, i think Lew going to be back. But if he’s not out there we have to all step up and be more efficient. It all comes down to getting stops and rebounding the basketball.

It’s one thing to miss shots, but when you get outrebounded by 24 its an effort. When you miss shots like that you’re going to get outrebounded, but not by 24.

I didn’t take him out because of injury, but because of the injury. LewJack, they stepped on the top of his foot, but they felt he could come back.

They have to evaluate us on the guys that are currently playing. We’re 4-2 without Rob, We’re a good basketball team, but not better. We can’t control a part of that. We have to go out and play without making excuses. Guys in our league know us and its tough because we’re not adjusting.

That was a wild pack of rabid, extremely tall gophers with AIDS and a chewing fetish.

And we came out like Bambi. It looked as if all our guys did was listen to the media telling all that we had absolutely no chance without Robbie.

Hopefully, Painter can turn this into a teaching lesson. Maybe Robbie himself needs to step up – he’s still a team leader, right? If not, how’s spring football practice coming?

This was an absolutely brutal game to watch but I forced myself to endure it. When Moore started the game off 0-everything, it was apparent that it just wasn’t our day. Obviously I’m disappointed in Moore and Johnson and they are really going to need to step it up in order for us to see the second weekend of the NCAA tournament.

We haven’t proved anything with Hummel gone.

We’re going to need a perfect storm of Etwaun shaking off today’s game and scoring 25+ a game, JuJuan trying to actually play like a center when he has some someone tall guarding him, Keaton getting hot again, and playing Boilermaker defense instead of that crap we saw today…to do anything in this tournament.

I was still optimistic until today’s fiasco. Now I can totally see a lower seed, small conference team with a couple trees underneath giving us trouble in the first round.

But, man, it has to be so tough to play a game one night where everything close gets called a foul to a game like Minnesota semi-final where nothing gets called. I know Purdue’s shooting would have caused them to lose anyway, but it’s embarrassing for the Big Ten that the officials can be so inconsistent. All those moving screens and hacks by Minnesota all game made for some bad basketball. I watched other conference tournaments last night and today and none of them get controlled by the officials more than a typical Big Ten game. It’s sickening.

Any team with two quality big men like that and some good perimeter guys is a tough matchup for us. That’s been true for as long as I’ve been watching Purdue basketball.

We are gonna get shipped out west and a 7 seed. That comm guy was a prick (at half time) and he seemed to be directly inferring Purdue-

Gumbel can go suck a nut- I am SO SICK of listening to them pontificate on our seeding arrangements. The snickers when giving the score- were audible and embarrassing to them as semi professional ass holes.

watching Purdue since Mount as a kid- this is by far the worst I have seen them. Totally, 100% inept. It would have been better had it not been on a national stage and so close to selection Sunday.

Playing of all teams…. Wofford!

I wanted to see what others though, but I thought the biggest play was the charge on Grant at the 13:07 mark of the first half. it was only 9-4 at that point, neither team had scored in about three minutes, and it took a Ryne Smith 3 off the board. Grant missed two free throws about 90 seconds later when it was still 9-4 and everything seemed to snowball from there. With no charge and two made free throws, we’re tied about 10 minutes in 9-9 and we ahve more confidence even though we played poorly up until then.

without Hummel. Playing with guards that can’t shoot (Barlow, Jackson, Kramer) is a huge handicap. When JJ and Moore aren’t hitting we are really in trouble.

I wasn’t the only one thinking MSU was especially good on the boards so it was good to avoid them—Minnesota did the exact same thing.

This is good fodder for the players to remember how much of rebounding etc. is up to them and not to fear a brand name or to forgot to respect a non-brand name.

“The Fumble” of 2010.

is up until yesterday- I looked at all the contests with bated breath- waiting for higher ranked or seeded teams to be upset- so we would move up a notch. This morning I looked at some score boards and didn’t give a rat’s ass. This game was the final twist of the dagger in my heart that speared me when Hummel got hurt.

I am dead to the NCAA now. unless of course we get to the sweet 16- and then there is after all the first beat down we can thump our chests with in the first round- as long as of course it isn’t us- and then a little more interest will be piqued when we somehow demolish the second round team. Hope will ring true again as we start our sweet 16 game and get crushed like the puny ants we are- and crawl back home to our little desk tops to revisit the “what coulda beens”.

Next year baby … :(