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Upon Further Review: Defensive lapses, offensive raggedness and more from Purdue's loss at Indiana

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Indiana's Malik Reneau (Imagn Images)

Following each Purdue basketball game this season — or at least most — GoldandBlack.com will take a closer look back at some finer points in our long-standing Upon Further Review series. Today, the 13th-ranked Boilermakers’ 73-58 loss at Indiana.

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(Video clips via CBS)

PURDUE DEFENSIVE ISSUES

Before we start here, two points of critical context …

  1. Purdue’s defense is built to protect the paint
    2. Indiana is a bad three-point shooting team

So when Matt Painter laments his team “not doing what it’s supposed to do,” here’s some of what he’s talking about.

Another point of context: This system, like all help-based defenses, often “zones off” a back-side defender making him responsible for two guys, meaning decisions to make.

Luke Goode might have been an exception to Purdue’s rules for this game for all I know, but here’s Myles Colvin bailing on the pick-and-roll dive man to lean toward three.

Here;’s some combination of Braden Smith jumping out to the three and/or Fletcher Loyer being a step behind rotating over that gives up this layup out o

Here, Colvin needs help on Malik Reneau, but there’s none to be found. Smith backs off to take away the dump-off pass. (Painter pulled Smith immediately after this play.)

Here, IU rolls Anthony Leal through the lane, drawing Purdue’s rim help with him. I can’t say for certain that Purdue wanted Loyer dropping off Leal here, but he’s attempted 16 threes prior to this game and Purdue’s over-arching plan was to guard the rim more than the arc.

One last clip. Smith does get leeway, we think, to fish for steals, but here it backfires

DEFENSIVE SUCCESS

So now that you’ve seen that stuff, look what Purdue did in the first half.

Every time IU even looks at the paint here, Purdue cuts it off.

Same.

The ball technically gets in the paint here, but they can have this shot all day if they want.

OFFENSIVE PROBLEMS

Poise. Purdue lost it.

This is December Purdue against pressure.

The turnover issue started almost as soon as the second half did.

Smith forces this pass without the necessary space to do it. He’s normally a wizard with this stuff, but this is a miss.

This should have been a foul on Reneau, but goes the other way. Tough break at a bad time, consistent with this losing streak.

But Purdue could have made its own breaks by being better on offense, specifically Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn, who went at too many bodies at times as IU bracketed him and crashed down on him when he’d put the ball on the floor.

Just pass this back out to Smith.

Just pass this out to Cox.

Just pass this to Colvin.

Here, he’s just moving too fast trying to beat Ballo baseline, then spins right into a trap.

Kaufman-Renn’s been pretty good about this stuff all year, but he tried to do too much at times against IU. When Matt Painter talks about him making the “right read,” here’s what that looks like.

MISC

• Indiana playing Goode at the 4 put Furst in some tough spots.

He’s caught in a switch here and zoned off with multiple bases to account for, but should not have left his feet on this closeout, I suspect.

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