WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Forward of Purdue basketball’s sport in opposition to Maryland on Sunday, coach Matt Painter met with the media to interrupt down the matchup because the No. 3-ranked Boilermakers get set to play inside Mackey Area.
This is the whole transcript of the whole lot he needed to say earlier than sport day, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET and will probably be televised on FS1:
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On what Maryland will carry to Mackey Area
Painter: Nicely, to start with, they’ve a whole lot of interchangeable items. So their capability to vary defenses, swap so much, simply use their total athleticism, I believe that is greater than something. Clearly, we’re extra aware of the fellows which were there earlier than. , Donta Scott, Hakim Hart, Julian Reese.
However they’ve a superb workforce, Jahmir Younger was an excellent addition for them. He is actually made them go. He can break you down off the dribble, he could make performs for himself, could make performs for others. I believe that is going to be an vital factor as a result of they will come and get you some, they will soar you some, they will zone you some, they will combine of their man, they will swap.
They’re going to do various things to get you to freeze, to get you to form of assume and go gradual. It’s a must to maintain taking part in. It’s a must to maintain shifting the basketball, you need to maintain taking part in, you need to maintain executing. In the event you’re continually sitting round questioning what they’re doing, they’ve completed what they wished. They need you to get there and simply form of be hesitant in what you are doing.
[Kevin Willard] is a extremely good coach from the success he is had earlier than, and he is accomplished a extremely good job with this workforce.
On the challenges of defending Jahmir Younger
Painter: Simply fast, he is aware of how you can play via angles, form of a stop-and-go man. He can hesitate, cross you up, get by you. And it is simpler stated than accomplished, however you need to strive your greatest to not give him angles.
When he breaks you down, he is nice at attending to the basket and making performs for himself or making performs for different guys. He is a extremely good participant.
On if the workforce’s play at Minnesota caused consistency
Painter: It gave me a superb feeling through the Minnesota sport. Day-after-day is a brand new day. Issues can change. Issues can change in guys’ private lives, issues can change within the league, guys can get in foul hassle. No matter it could be, there are a whole lot of elements that go into that.
That is what you are all the time leery of as a coach, is simply protecting all people on the identical web page, ensuring all people is competing as a result of everybody got here right here to start out and play half-hour. By no means lose sight of that, however the guys that aren’t in these roles, now they’re crucial to your workforce.
So protecting all people on the identical web page, and understanding how helpful they’re to us, I believe that is the vital piece as a coach. Simply maintain working that angle, maintain speaking to these guys as a result of it is laborious. It is laborious. Guys have put in an excessive period of time and typically it is like, oh, I am taking part in 10 minutes or I am taking part in 20 minutes. And that is not what they signed up for.
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However if you’re on a superb workforce, the fellows that make sacrifices — all people makes sacrifices, however the guys that actually make sacrifices and are available off the bench — that may be the distinction. That may be the distinction in successful and shedding.
On Braden Smith’s aggressiveness within the pick-and-roll
Painter: And that is what he has to have the ability to do, he has to take what the defenses give him. Generally the cross-court go is open, typically the lob is open, typically he can get extra layups. The opposite evening it was slightly little bit of the whole lot, after which they simply went beneath twice.
So they might go beneath the primary one after which go beneath the second and simply dared him. He in all probability ought to have taken 4 or 5 extra [3-pointers]. However I assumed he did a superb job of simply choosing his spots and stepping up and taking pictures it.
However we play Penn State, and the lob was open so much. The sport earlier than that, a whole lot of cross-court passes had been open. Then you definitely play the subsequent one and also you get layups, so that you simply do not have a predetermined thought, simply learn the protection and belief your instincts.
On Zach Edey being extra dynamic in Purdue’s offense
Painter: Simply so he stops his ball display and would not overrun it. Generally he’ll overrun the defender. Simply cease it low and make that guard use that ball display.
However no, he strikes nicely for anyone his measurement. I believe when individuals say he strikes nicely, it is simply not a common assertion, it is for anyone that is that huge. However he is all the time been a man that may transfer like that, he is all the time been ready to try this. Now it is simply the self-discipline and the understanding of getting the appropriate angle so now they need to do one thing defending the ball display that they do not wish to do.
Quite a lot of huge guys do not prefer to get indifferent from him, so you need to pressure his man to assist so much. While you pressure his man to assist so much and there are pictures, he will get these tip dunks. Once they assist so much and so they get away, now he will get good publish place.
So bringing him out really helps him when he goes again in, that is why we set that ball display a lot in transition. As a result of now they set it, they need to cease the ball. If they do not, Braden goes to the rim. Nicely now when [Edey] dives, they’ve gotten off of him. Now after they come again to him, it opens up gaps to drive, it opens up gaps to chop, nevertheless it additionally lets him set up a deeper place and that man is behind him.
On the effectiveness of the pick-and-roll between Zach Edey and Braden Smith
Painter: We provoke so much, particularly in transition with that. Now, when individuals take issues away or they overdo issues, if we’re making pictures, we stick with it. And now it offers us one thing to go to if we’re not making pictures. We have been in a position to generate good pictures at occasions after which miss them. That is basketball, particularly if you shoot from a distance. That is why individuals pack the lane. However now it permits us to go to one thing the place it may not be Braden’s layup or Zach’s lob, it is different individuals’s pictures and simply the combination of it has actually helped us.
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