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[Stuhoo 88,897]

Just now, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

If Cupps is playing 10-15 minutes, then we are probably NIT bound. We need something more reliable than a lowly rated freshman and Gallo as a secondary ball handler.

Aren't you a member of the Braden freakin Smith fan club?!!?

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3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Aren't you a member of the Braden freakin Smith fan club?!!?

Oh god. Thats a thing? 

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@MikeRoberts whats confusing? 

[Rico 3,528]

5 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

If Cupps is playing 10-15 minutes, then we are probably NIT bound. We need something more reliable than a lowly rated freshman and Gallo as a secondary ball handler.

Are you placing your order for crow already?

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I think Cupps will have a chance to be better than Yogi as a FR, and certainly more efficient. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich 9,274]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Aren't you a member of the Braden freakin Smith fan club?!!?

Fan club? No. But we also don't have a 7-4 dude to help Cupps out as he's adjusting to the game. And honestly, we don't have a player development coach quite on the level of Painter. Can Cupps be that good in his first year? I guess so. I wouldn't bank on it if I'm the staff. I don't know if it's just blind fandom or arrogance as a fanbase, but to believe we only need 3 dudes to handle the ball is ridiculous. The thought we shouldn't go get another ball handler because of a freshman is ridiculous. It's easy to have a freshman be a ball handler when you have another really really good player on the floor, but next year we won't have that. Maybe the year after we will.

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1 minute ago, btownqb said:

I think Cupps will have a chance to be better than Yogi as a FR, and certainly more efficient. 

Well Cupps won't have two All-Americans to play with like Yogi did. And Yogi was pretty damned good his freshman year in his role.

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Just now, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Well Cupps won't have two All-Americans to play with like Yogi did. And Yogi was pretty damned good his freshman year in his role.

I think Cupps will be better than Yogi as a FR and more efficient. 

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14 minutes ago, btownqb said:

Well.. XJ plays 32mins+.... Cupps plays 10-15. Where are the mins? 

There are an unlimited amount of minutes at PG.

we had 80 a game available early on and that shrunk to 40 because we were limited. We need more speed, more ball handling, more players that can create and despite opinion - XJ is not guaranteed to be back at all and if he is, he is not gauaranteed to be his old self after a season ending injury. That, coupled with Cupps having never played a minute at the P5 college level suggests we need another solid Pg.

 

galloway is a 3, playing him at the 1should be a worst case scenario

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1 minute ago, btownqb said:

I think Cupps will be better than Yogi as a FR and more efficient. 

Yogi averaged 7.6 points, 4.1 assists, 2.1 turnovers. I highly doubt he will have that kind of season.

[Banksyrules 5,332]

 I guess both parties are right . We do need another experienced point guard if we want to be a good tournament team. What if X gets injured again? I love Trey but he would get exposed quickly by an athletic scrappy point guard. You should have a  good back up and it wouldn't be fair to Cupps to take that much work load.  Yet at the same time Cupps does need 10-15 minutes a game to develop properly. 

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4 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Yogi averaged 7.6 points, 4.1 assists, 2.1 turnovers. I highly doubt he will have that kind of season.

I just fell out of my chair, we agree

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27 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

There are an unlimited amount of minutes at PG.

we had 80 a game available early on and that shrunk to 40 because we were limited. We need more speed, more ball handling, more players that can create and despite opinion - XJ is not guaranteed to be back at all and if he is, he is not gauaranteed to be his old self after a season ending injury. That, coupled with Cupps having never played a minute at the P5 college level suggests we need another solid Pg.

 

galloway is a 3, playing him at the 1should be a worst case scenario

XJ is coming back. Cupps not being ready is a fabrication you guys have now made up. And now we've made up XJ might not come back fully healthy? Its a broken foot. He should lose zero ability. 

TG can play any 1-3. 

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12 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Yogi averaged 7.6 points, 4.1 assists, 2.1 turnovers. I highly doubt he will have that kind of season.

Yogi only had 3.0 turnovers per 40 minutes!

Clearly more careful with the ball than a guy like Galloway, who averaged 1.1 turnovers per 40 last yea... ahhhh,... f' it.

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14 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Yogi averaged 7.6 points, 4.1 assists, 2.1 turnovers. I highly doubt he will have that kind of season.

I'd be pretty surpised if he didnt. Plus.. shoot a better percentage from the field and from 3. 

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12 minutes ago, Banksyrules said:

 I guess both parties are right . We do need another experienced point guard if we want to be a good tournament team. What if X gets injured again? I love Trey but he would get exposed quickly by an athletic scrappy point guard. You should have a  good back up and it wouldn't be fair to Cupps to take that much work load.  Yet at the same time Cupps does need 10-15 minutes a game to develop properly. 

Its very unrealistic to think we can just add a serviceable vet PG and give him no mins until/if XJ gets hurt. 

We just don't have the mins. XJ is playing 36mpg+ when it matters. 

[JSHoosier 22,204]

22 minutes ago, MikeRoberts said:

There are an unlimited amount of minutes at PG.

we had 80 a game available early on and that shrunk to 40 because we were limited. We need more speed, more ball handling, more players that can create and despite opinion - XJ is not guaranteed to be back at all and if he is, he is not gauaranteed to be his old self after a season ending injury. That, coupled with Cupps having never played a minute at the P5 college level suggests we need another solid Pg.

 

galloway is a 3, playing him at the 1should be a worst case scenario

We started the season playing both Johnson and Schifino together, so yeah there was 80 minutes before Johnson got hurt.

If the staff wants 2 on the court we need another ball handler.

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14 minutes ago, Schreckbagger said:

Well, this thread fell into the crapper quickly.

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[str8baller 7,380]

Any chance a school throws some money at Edey to get him to transfer? 

 

I’ve heard—from a pretty knowledgeable person—that Edey isn’t completely sold on the pros and Purdue is trying, and struggling, to come up with an additional $500k to throw at him.  

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1 hour ago, MikeRoberts said:

XJ is not guaranteed to be back at all and if he is, he is not gauaranteed to be his old self after a season ending injury.

You're right, there are no guarantees of health and playing level. However, XJ was out with a broken foot. We're not talking a blown knee or a torn Achilles or anything like that. It was a broken foot. By the time next season rolls around, he'll have had close to a year to recover. In fact, he was close to being back at the end of this season. If he doesn't play well next season, I don't think it'll have anything to do with his injury this year since there is no reason to think he wouldn't get back to 100% after a broken bone.