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PURDUE 82, EVANSVILLE 51: Reaction with Mike Rich (2.77.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to a special edition of the Purdue Report.
• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Microch is reaction to Purdue's 82-51 win over Evansville in the season opener.
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Olam Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, Boyle, their microphones to the central Indian Esports Report for a special edition of the Purdue Report.
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: No Jake Dundenite, he was unavailable, so filling in as our Pacers guy, Mike Rich, to react to number one, Purdue's 82, 51 win over Evansville, their 13th straight win and their season opener.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mike Rich, welcome, and your initial thoughts on the 25, 26 top-ranked Boyle, their makers.
• 0:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: I just love the terrain number one in the nation.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's just super exciting to see the boiler makers come out strong minus trade-coffman rent and still put up 82 points.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: They easily could have beat this team by 50 points.
• 1:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Missed a lot of easy layups right at the front of the ramp.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: first half beginning in the first half as a little slow start having to kind of hung around for a while until Purdue went on about a 31-5 on into the second half and just took it away from there and then when they start clearing a bench I'm just fantastic to watch that crowd just seemed like they were pretty excited for the start of the season and a lot of good things to come with the boiler makers.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: going to be a fun season first game ever as preseason number one as we mentioned, but they continue their dominance and the pre-conference that's believed 32 and 3, the last four seasons and the non-conference schedule and all three of those losses came last year against a really tough schedule.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Really tough schedule again this year.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: They play Oakland on Friday,
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: and that'll be it should be an easy one although pretty good mid major program and then Thursday they are at Alabama.
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: So big test early on, but a flutter lawyer shoots like that, man.
• 2:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: He was on fire.
• 2:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: I got 11 from the field.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: 7 for 10 from the 3. line 7 for 8 at the free throw line.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: And like you mentioned, it was not a masterpiece of a game, but if flutter lawyers are going to do that,
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think anybody can beat him if Fletcher Lloyd does that, but I wish he would went out making that three-pointer instead of airballing it.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: He only missed three of the ten-eighthooks, I can't complain too much.
• 2:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: 30 minutes for Fletcher Lloyd, one of the all-time great Purdue sharpshooters without question, who comes to mind when you think of the sharpshooters, Troy Lewis, when we're growing up,
• 3:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Troy Lewis would be number one for me, I think.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Carson Edwards a few years ago, of course, there have been some really, really good ones, including Robbie Hummel who called the game tonight, one of the best shooters and program history as well.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what, flat your lawyer had a lot of white open shots because Braden Smith can just find you guys when they're open.
• 3:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, just fantastic.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: the he'd he'd probably could have four or five more assist and you could easily have 15 assist tonight uh... the finished six points eleven assist yeah uh... little rough from the field three for nine from the field miss both of his three pointers best player in the country and it was obvious only scoring six points
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Again, if Braids must get an 11 assist and fight your lawyers getting 30 points in a game, there's just no team that's going to be able to compete one turn over.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's fantastic.
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Only seven for the entire team tonight.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good thing, not a good opponent.
• 4:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, Evansville had a couple players out, but also going to be probably mid-packed.
• 4:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Missouri Valley.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: not a good opponent not going to learn a lot from that but really good to see those two in particular we what we're going to get from those two as you mentioned the other part of the trio tree coffman ran out tonight back and hip sornus he had played a hundred and ten straight games without missing one seventy five straight sake edit
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: 75 straight starts.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: That street comes to an end tonight.
• 4:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And starting in this place, Mike was Jack Benter, which was a big surprise to me.
• 4:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jack Bender was a red shirt freshman last year.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I knew he was going to be a good player.
• 4:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I did not imagine that he was going to be starting at power forward for the number one team in the country as a freshman.
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you that.
• 5:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: And big night for him, man.
• 5:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: 11
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: just a great night and just embrace the opportunity and it definitely paid off.
• 5:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think I'll see more time this year.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, thank you.
• 5:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: No doubt he's part of the rotation.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Real fast, Michael, let's talk about the rotation.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mission Jack Benter started in place of, of Trake Hoffman ran pretty clear that he's going to be part of the rotation as well.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: The other people getting minutes tonight.
• 5:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oscar Cloth started at center and Daniel Jacobs and got a lot of minutes.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: They combined for 20 points and 18 rebounds.
• 5:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're going to point out a week missed tonight, Mike, they should have completely dominated Evansville inside, and they didn't.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: The rebounding was 40 to 40, and those guys, they've got to finish, and they've got to rebound.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were being out rebounded by smaller guys at times.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know the exact statistic until you said it 40 to 40, but you could just tell they were getting out rebounded in situations they shouldn't have been.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Braden Smith made just a fantastic move to the basket and leaves it just short and I I don't see that happen in very often, but Clean up a little bit and I think they can learn a little bit from this game and There's definitely going to be some rebounding drills coming in practice.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's way one of the offensive rebounds for Evansville.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Would they're starting center out?
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's unacceptable really.
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: especially with two seven footers in there.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: But we're working and we're struggling really hard to find some flaws in this.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we are.
• 6:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Because neither one of them was bad tonight.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't like both of them did some good things.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: But as I believe Robbie Hummel pointed out during the game, you play like that on the boards.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: You play like that.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Missing easy shots against Illinois or Michigan, you're losing.
• 7:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: You are.
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: about any team in the conference is going to play better than happened to Bill.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty much you should mention four Evansville, Ashwa Hughes had 15 points, AJ Casey, 14 and Trent Huntley, nine off the bench, and James Dyson, my way off the bench had just four points, but five offensive rebounds, including.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: And seven total rebounds was two for two from the field and it's pretty impressive.
• 7:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think we're going to hear much from Evansville this year, but it's a program I'd like to see it's start to make its way back up to where it was in the 80s and 90s.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that'd be all right.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Anytime.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Andy and a team can get better.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they just all stink, Mike.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't understand why all the small school stink now.
• 7:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: They used to all be good, ball state and Evansville, and Valparaiso, and they're just all really bad.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't make any sense.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: The talent in Indiana is as high as it's ever been.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: It is.
• 8:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's extremely talented state for basketball.
• 8:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm not much drop off over the years.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: We mentioned they were 28 for 59 from the field.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: They actually, you see that and you usually think shot selection would be the problem that they're shooting too many threes.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were actually 13 for 29 from the three point line.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: So they were 15 for 30 inside and they need to be better than that.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: But again, we're kind of picking it nuts now, aren't we?
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: We are.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think this was a good warm-up game for,
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: for Purdue and I think Oakland will give him a little bit of a challenge at the beginning, but again, they should probably blow Oakland out as well.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oakland did give up 121 points in their first game of the season against once again.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, should be interesting to see what happens there and be able to compare the two.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: A game is on P-Cock 7 o'clock on Friday.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: And for us, Mike, that's high school football
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, next week on the Purdue Report, we will be talking about the game at Alabama coming up and I think we're all pretty excited to see what happens in that one.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that'll be a good early season test.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: The game at Alabama is their only true road game of the non-conference schedule.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, my final thoughts on game one on the road to a Purdue Boiler Maker National Championship.
• 9:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, a long way to go to that national championship, but I think this was a great start.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: They did exactly what they needed to do.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: They came in.
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: They got a good warm-up game.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: They'll have another one coming and then the true test will be Alabama.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: They give them a little bit of a challenge.
• 10:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think when we were going through this, we couldn't pick one or two losses for the season.
• 10:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I still think it's going to be a fantastic season for the boiler makers.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: As long as we go to an O against IU, that's all matters to me.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mike, thanks so much, boiler up.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: boiler up.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Mike Rich for filling in.
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mike and I go back to the early 80s.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: in our Purdue fandom in fact E and I and our best friend Craig Brunnermer were the only Purdue fans in our entire class surrounded by Hoosers.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jacob will be back on Friday to preview the Purdue Ohio State football game and we will react to that one on Saturday evening or Sunday morning and your next Purdue report will be next Wednesday.
• 11:07
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• 11:49
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