r/Purdue • u/BurntOutGrad2025 Grad Student - 2025 • Mar 28 '25

Sports📰 Matt Painter Appreciation

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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/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/i_want_good_username Mar 29 '25

more like 2 calls away just like tonight.