Basketball Chat
Each week — or at least most weeks — GoldandBlack.com hosts a chat session for site members to take questions regarding Purdue basketball.
Below are a few excerpts from this week’s edition, first since Purdue began fall practice on Monday.
Q; Are you sticking to the idea that Heide starts the 4 given that Painter said they still haven’t worked on that much? Is that just because practice hasn’t lent the opportunity to play a “starting 5” together all that often yet?
A: I am sticking to that expectation, yes, because I think it’s their best five, their most experienced five and I think they err on the side of scoring.
Q: In you’re recent article you mentioned Burgess and Benter. Are you leaning towards the thought they’ll redshirt?
A: They are the two that make the most sense, but so was Ryan Cline and a number of others. What looks likely and what ends up happening are often very diiferent. They love Burgess and Benter has shot like 77.9 percent from three (give or take) in the practices I’ve watched, so you never know.
Q: Woj going back to St. Bonaventure as GM struck my curiosity. Does Purdue basketball have a GM, or do you think they will eventually? I’m thinking the culture sort of GMs itself and Bloom may be playing this role with a different title?
A: No Purdue doesn’t have a GM, but Painter is very involved in recruiting and Bloom is really a load-bearing wall for the whole program. I think it’s important to note that these people have all been together a long time on this staff and have a pretty good idea how Painter wants things and things would seem pretty smooth operationally in part for that reason.
You can centralize all that stuff with one person or spread it out and Purdue has every base covered as is, and as far as the salary-cap part of this, Purdue is different. They’re spreading things out to everyone, then letting them earn whatever else they can get like Edey did and Braden Smith surely is. Things change here, too, soon when ‘revenue-sharing’ comes into play.
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Q: Brian, Coach Painter seems to settle in to a starting lineup and a rotation every year – regardless of the competition. With all the available moving parts and the unknowns this year, do you see more flexibility with lineups based on opponents, or will he stay hard and fast with what he’s done in the past?
A: Yes.
Had Purdue not had Zach Edey, I think you might have seen some offensively effective smaller lineups, but Purdue had to have Edey on the floor.
They’ll be different, as all those theoretical but impractical malleability dynamics materialize. Man, what a sentence that was.
Q: Why do you keep saying next year is the year for top 5 expectations/another F4 run, but not this year? Too much relying on freshmen this year? Or just that we’ll have that core of 3 great seniors next year?
A: I’ve said over and over again that Purdue will be really good this year and anything can happen, but next year is the year where everything lines up again the way it did last season.
Purdue may have the best senior class in America next season and these freshmen will be experienced. Who knows what a Year 2 of Daniel Jacobsen might look like?
