Ya but miami absolutely had a chance today if reneau and Donaldson show up. They combined 10 for 30 from the floor and we still found ourselves down 4 with a minute to go when IMO we made the wrong decision to foul a team who couldnt miss from the line.
They shot 53/57/95
Purdue focused on stopping Malik which means Tre had to play well. Tre did not play well.
There’s a difference in being happy to be here and living in reality. We had a chance to win bc we played way over our heads in the first half and our athleticism caused 7 TO’s. We were never gonna beat them playing their game and if they cleaned their play. The 2nd half was their game. They only turn it over like 9-10 times a game. It was always gonna regress back to the mean.
And they’ll say they turned it over too much that gave Miami 10 free points, and Smith had his worst game of the season. And still won by 10. It goes both ways.
Because we'd have had 26ish seconds left down 4 if we got a stop which we didn't get many of those in the 2nd half. I liked the idea. We just sucked.
We still had the game within 4 with a minute left. We closed out the first half incredibly poorly for them to cut the lead to 2 and then had multiple bad possessions down the stretch in the second half. It happens, but this match up was not Prairie View against Florida.
It was a good game plan. Smart coaching there. As @JZCane0825 points out above, Reneau is finesse - and they likely knew they could frustrate him -- (because you can frustrate him) -- by the time he got clicking a bit at the end, it was out of sync between Tru, Henderson and Tre... Tru was short on his shots all night -- 3s and 2s.
Need that to be the expectation and attack the portal and resources to keep it there. Mindset, too.
Is something wrong with him or does he owe a bookie? Dude was at the post game presser a complete mess bawling his eyes out still way after the game has ended.. Like snot bubbles and hyperventilating thru answering questions type stuff, not sure I have seen that before..
I think he tends to be more emotional in general? He got pretty emotional/teared up talking about what it means to play at home before the season started as well.
His senior season just ended, give the kid a break
Yes, it was a smart game plan, but we needed Tre to step up and have a really good game. That would have taken pressure off Malik. Not that I care but we definitely exposed a few Purdue weaknesses. We dominated the offensive boards and shut down Smith. The difference was they got to the line 12 more times than we did and we were 1 for 10 in the second half from 3. A better 3- point shooting team beats them.
Sorry meant JD….thats how bad it’s been all the bad coaches just kind of run into each other…
