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Collins Post Game Press Conference

Rebel II
Cat-Court-Jester said:
Collins won't. He almost did that once after the Gonzaga screw job, but stopped short. He'll just continue playing the "nice guy" act with Big Ten officials...
  • And they'll continue to screw NU season, after season, after season
  • Fran McCaffrey once found the Big Ten refs in the tunnel after the game and screamed "You cheating motherf***er!" You're a f***ing disgrace!"... well, now Iowa gets treated fairly
  • PSU coach Mike Rhoades has zero history in the Big Ten, he's two years in, and noww his team gets a whistle against NU like nothing I've ever seen
  • NU suffered one of the craziest screw jobs I've ever seen in the closing seconds. What does Collins do? He remains docile and shakes hands. Well, I hope the nice guy routine makes him lots of friends. It doesn't get him calls
  • Frankly, NU fans have to question: "If Collins doesn't care enough to get fired up and show some real emotion, why should we?"
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Inaccurate statement. CCC fights against the machine valiantly. Just without success.
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Here Comes Purdue

Hungry Jack
The Boilers are 10-4, 2-1 and doing it all without the great Zach Edey. Of course, they still have Braden Smith, their best player according to most efficiency metrics. Some media reports might suggest that even 1,000 Varangian guards could not deter Smith, but I am pretty sure he's no match for any Viking.

What is a bit different about this Purdue team of recent years is the absence of a towering 5 to be the focal point of the offense. If Smith is the straw (8.7 assists pg), then F Trey Kauffman-Renn is the drink (18.2 ppg, 12.1 shots pg, 6.1 ft pg). The other ingredient is G Fletcher Loyer (14.4 ppg), who still looks like the dentist from that Christmas cartoon special.

This trio garners over 30 mpg each, while the rest of the minutes are spread among F Camden Heide (21.5 mpg), G Myles Colvin (20.9), G Gicari Harris (16.1), and G CJ Cox (14.4 mpg). The Boilers will rotate a few traditional bigs through with Caleb Furst (13 mpg, 4.5 ppg) and 7'2" 260 lb Will Berg (9.3 mpg, 2.6 ppg), but their offense will mostly run through the perimeter, unlike during the Edey years.

The bad news is that Smith (43%), Renn (43%) and Loyer (49%) all can shoot the 3. The good news for us is that the Boilers don't have nearly the athleticism of Penn State. They won't press the Cats into turnovers or outquick us into hand-check calls that will make us want to gouge our eyes with broadswords. Of course, none of this will matter if the officiating replicates what we saw vs. PSU. If that is the case, even the Varangians won't save us.
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+/- for the Patern o' Abuse at Pedo State

PurpleWhiteBoy
Okay, thats a little "Salty" as the kids say. Refs have to be better than that - and ultimately prevented NU from winning.

PlayerMinutesNU PtsPSU PtsRaw+/-Player+/-Net+/-Box Pts
Barnhizer367277-5+6.96+5.9615.85
Ciaravino92414+10+2.65+4.655.40
Nicholson265048+2+2.99+3.397.30
Windham213943-4+2.79+1.995.55
Mullins183934+5-2.29-1.293.00
Hunger132534-9-2.06-3.860.30
Leach244955-6-3.34-4.543.10
Berry142836-8-3.50-5.10-0.90
Martinelli397479-5-4.20-5.204.40

Barnhizer was the best player on the court for Northwestern and played another excellent game.
Martinelli was only 5 of 13 from the floor and turned the ball over 3 times against 5 rebounds, 2 assists and a steal.
Leach only took 5 shots, making 2, but turned it over a painful 5 times against 3 steals, 3 assists and 2 rebounds.
Ty Berry played a mere 14 minutes, got tagged with lame fouls and went 1 for 6 from the floor, with only an assist and a rebound to show for his effort.

Into the gap stepped KJ Windham and Angelo Ciaravino. Both played well. Ciaravino played really well. Limited to 9 minutes by the zebras he put up 5 shots, making 3 of them, including 2 from outside the arc. He added a steal and a rebound. His +10 is noteworthy. That was achieved primarily with Nicholson, Martinelli and Mullins in the first half, when NU turned a 12-6 deficit into a 21-16 lead.

KJ Windham displayed his ball-handling skills, recording 2 assists against 1 turnover in 20.5 minutes. This is the area where he helps NU most, but he also knocked down 3 of 5 shots, inluding 2 of 4 from distance - matching Ciaravino's shooting numbers exactly.

Justin Mullins made 3 of 5 shots, but had no rebounds at all, which is rather bizarre for him.

Tough loss for the Wildcats, but, importantly, Windham and Ciaravino showed they are ready to provide Collins more options on the court. The team really struggled with Luke Hunger playing the 5 against Penn State - we gave up 34 points in 13.4 minutes. Its possible that we might see more of Martinelli at the 5 with Ciaravino or Mullins essentially subbing in for Hunger.
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The Rant Board

PurpleWhiteBoy
SimpsonElmwood said:
I am pissed about the reffing too but if you watch the first 5 mins of each half again, there is no question the Cats fouled more than Penn State.

Such hand check fouls usually police themselves by conference season. Players hand check less and refs relax. In the Penn State game, neither happened so we got what we all witnessed.

Cats’ guards’ D had a big role in making the game what it ended up being.
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Right - there was one ref who wanted to call the game differently than the mainstream refs. His obsession was those little hand moves that our guys use to slow the opponent down ever so slightly. Nicholson got called for one of those on Baldwin. My reaction was "If thats a foul then everybody will foul out of every game."

Bardo was pointing this out correctly. The refs are calling every little hand grab. Back off the point guard - make him shoot a jumper.
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Collins Post Game Press Conference

PurpleWhiteBoy
EagerFan said:
Who knows for real, but in the clip above Collins says specifically that he hasn't seen the tape and just has to trust that the three guys at the monitor got it right.
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Thats a mature response in the moment - if you haven't watched the tape why risk looking foolish.
But I'm sure when he watched the tape it made him angry.
In my opinion, he should find an opportunity or 3 to tell the media "We got the short end of that call. Basket should have counted. It cost us the game."
To a rational human, it makes no sense that Barnhizer's putback would be disallowed.
Whistle came after or just as he released the shot.

I would bet my life that Coach K gets that call.
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