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Gold and Black Radio: Purdue men's hoops streak continues, but No. 2 Alabama next

by:Derek Schultz11/12/24
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Purdue basketball talk with host Derek Schultz following the Boilermakers’ 92-84 win over Yale and a Friday contest with No. 2 Alabama in Mackey Arena. 

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Our post-game analysis following third-ranked 14th-ranked Purdue’s 92-84 win over Yale.

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Purdue-Yale Takeaways

(excerpts from Brian Neubert’s Post)

The Wings Break Out

Collectively, this was the best-case blueprint for Camden Heide and Myles Colvin, who were both pivotal in this win.

They took their opportunities as they came on offense and combined for 18 points off just nine shots. Colvin has been offensive rocket fuel in every game this season off the bench and Heide made the shots tonight he’d been missing or passing up altogether prior, knocking down two important threes in the second half to help keep Yale at bay.

But offense isn’t their sole role.

Rather, Purdue needs their athleticism to be impactful and their versatility on defense to matter, both elements being driven by energy.

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Their impacts were just as profound in that area as any tonight, as they totaled 11 rebounds and affected the game for the better on defense, something you would not have seen Colvin do a year ago at this time. His emergence as more of a complete player to go along with being instant offense has quietly been a really big deal these first few weeks of the season.

At the same time, Heide has looked like a bit of a man without a country in Purdue’s lineups, caught between being a 3 (where Purdue is leaning toward having a third guard out there) and 4, where Trey Kaufman-Renn is king.

Purdue finally moved Kaufman-Renn to the 5 tonight. Maybe coincidence, but maybe not, but that was when Heide settled in at the 4. Those threes he made were the very ball-screen-offense threes Mason Gillis lived off at Purdue. Heide might have just experienced his jumping-off point for this season.

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