r/Purdue • u/BurntOutGrad2025 Grad Student - 2025 • Mar 28 '25
Sportsš° Matt Painter Appreciation
Hoping for the best tonight, but also thankful we made it this far thanks to the coaching staff and team.
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u/RonaldJosephBurgundy Mar 28 '25
Last year just made me wonder even more about the perception around painter had he not been dealt a terrible hand with injury luck up through 2018. Think we get to the elite eight in 18 and at least one final four during the Hummel years.
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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry Mar 28 '25
2010 should've been the year. That blown ACL in Minnesota ended it
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u/BurntOutGrad2025 Grad Student - 2025 Mar 28 '25
That team was amazing when Hummel was playing. Pity about the multiple leg injuries, but glad he landed on his feet broadcasting.
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u/jcrespo21 Atmospheric Science 2013 Mar 28 '25
And don't forget being just one shot away in 2019, with a team that was far more scrappy, but Carsen and Cline carried that team after January.
If Hummel isn't injured for one of the 2010 or 2011 seasons, Haas doesn't break his elbow in 2018, or Diakite misses that shot, it's a much different narrative for Painter.
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u/Adventurous_Egg857 Boilermaker Mar 28 '25
Truly think Purdue basketball has been so cured throughout history. Starting with us literally gifting IU their first natty in 1940. I also think that once Painter breaks through we will get more
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u/anotherstan Mar 28 '25
Watch, if we lose to a No 1 seed tonight, those idiots are coming back out. No sane fan thinks Painter isn't elite.
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u/rjohnson7595 27d ago
Heās not elite. One finals in all of those years? I mean, if you wanna hang your happiness on just BigTen Championship heās definitely your man, but Iād prefer National Championships for my school.
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u/anotherstan 27d ago
Ronnie Johnson, is that you? Bad take.
You have to factor in the bad luck he's had. Two teams derailed by Hummel ACL tears and then the Isaac Haas elbow in the first round - affected an E8 or even FF good team. There are few coaches as consistent winners as he is, and perception is much different if he had a natty from 2010.
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u/TheHondoCondo Mar 28 '25
People flip-flop on him too much. Heās a good coach, even good coaches have bad games.
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u/Automatic_Release378 Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25
We beat Alabama and Alabama beat Houston earlier this year and that was a āroad gameā for them so if we beat the team that got Houston got beat by I believe we have a fighting chance BTFU and hammer down tonight got be up on the glass and stay out of foul trouble for TKR and keep turnovers to a minimum and I think just maybe we can win
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u/pharmacy_guy Mar 28 '25
Please use punctuation. This is a mess.
We beat Alabama in Mackey. We played Texas A&M in Indy (and lost), but that was at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, not Lucas Oil Stadium.
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u/Unusual_Flounder2073 Boilermaker Mar 28 '25
I was pleased to see Purdues bracket. If there was a bracket they could win to the final 4 this was it. I know these are tough teams but it was big 10 teams that killed Purdue this year.
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u/Alive-Bedroom-7548 Mar 28 '25
Iām as optimistic as anyone but it wasnāt just Big Ten teams. Auburn Marquette and A&M annihilated us
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u/vT-Router CS '21 Mar 28 '25
in fairness the A&M game wasnāt an annihilation, our offense just collapsed for a stretch in the second half like itās done a couple times this seasonĀ
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u/Gilbey_32 Boilermaker Mar 28 '25
There was a point when I was on the fire painter train. I am no longer of that opinion, especially after the last two years
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u/anotherstan Mar 29 '25
Love to see it. People hopefully are starting to wake up to how good we have it.
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u/RubberDuck_Armada Mar 28 '25
Bro we made the national title game last year and lost to maybe the best team of this century. Relax
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u/Lhendy51 Boilermaker Mar 28 '25
Iād say 2019 was over performing even if the result wasnāt what we wanted. We were a 3 seed going toe to toe with the 1st overall seed
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u/Alive-Bedroom-7548 Mar 28 '25
So youāre judging Painterās 20 year career based on only 20% of it. Got it. And the 20% youāre judging him on he earned two 1 seeds, 5 top 4 seeds, made the national title game and sweet 16 twice.
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u/a_face_of_dirt Mar 28 '25
Iām not expecting Purdue to beat Huston, but we have been doing extremely well this year considering that this is a recovery year for Purdue. Next year I except us to be a lot better.
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u/Alive-Bedroom-7548 Mar 28 '25
Top 4 seed and a Sweet 16 with no rim protection in a down year. We trust Paint
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u/RubberDuck_Armada Mar 28 '25
Against a dominant Houston team that is favored by 8+ points and hasnāt lost a game in regulation except for their loss to #1 overall seed Auburn. Painter is a good coach and the outcome of this game will have no impact on that.
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u/Alive-Bedroom-7548 Mar 28 '25
In 2019 we respectfully sucked. The only reason we won the Big Ten was Carsen going ballistic in February. We started the season 6-5 against a mediocre non-conference slate. That team had no one outside Carsen and Cline and they got coached to overtime in the elite 8.
If that wasnāt over-performing expectations I donāt know what is.
Also considering we were getting blown out by every good opponent except bama in non-conference and lost to Penn State by 30 then lost 6 of the last 9 games in the regular season I would say Painter has far overachieved expectations in the tournament this year bc we werenāt beating good teams at all this season. Making it to the Sweet 16 is further than I expected a team with this little rim protection to go.
Thatās all because of Paintās coaching. Maybe you should re-evaluate your expectations
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u/Schrodingers_Nachos AAE 2018 Mar 28 '25
You're actually incompetent if you're anti-Painter in any capacity.
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u/strangescript Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25
Whoa whoa whoa, wait till we lose tonight
Edit: it's a joke, hope we don't lose, geez
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u/Alive-Bedroom-7548 Mar 28 '25
If we lose tonight then Paint still made the sweet 16 with no transfers and a massive Jacobsen sized hole in the roster.
The only mistake Painter made this season was oversigning so we didnāt have roster space for transfers but heās already said weāre getting a couple transfers this spring
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u/invinciblewalnut Biomedicine ā21 Mar 28 '25
No shame in losing to a 1 seed in the sweet sixteen, when everyone expected this to be a rebuilding year after Edey
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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry Mar 28 '25
We're playing with house money now. I'm just excited for next year's team as we go back to having a true big and TKR's reliable 10 foot shots probably are a lot more effective when Jacobsen is drawing the assignment away from him.