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PURDUE 87, ALABAMA 80: Reaction with Jake Dunn (2.85.4) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: you are listening to a special edition of the Purdue Report reaction to produce 87 to 80 win Alabama with Jake Dunn and myself your host Craig Minkeau.
• 0:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Only on the central Indian sports report.
• 0:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back, boilermaker fans, to the Central Indian Sports Report for a special edition of the Purdue Report.
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jake Dunn's and my reaction to produce 87-80 win at Alabama on Thursday night.
• 0:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: First win over a ranked team on the road in a non-conference game, in a long, long time and Jake that was a good one.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it was, although it was a close game throughout the entire time and really never felt like Purdue was really out of it, I feel like they were kind of controlling the game from the most part, you know, really from from Lair to Lair.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, really good wind should have a lot of really good things.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: What what we talked about, you know, in the preview of, you know, things that pretty man to do, I feel like they be able to do that.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, the things that we would really encouraging.
• 1:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the things that we were concerned about was their strength on Thursday night.
• 1:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I mentioned Final Score 87 to 80 out of scored Alabama up 44 to 39 in the second half and scored the final 7 points of the game after it was tied 80 to 80 and Jake you're absolutely right.
• 1:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: The game was tied 80 to 80.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: It always felt like Purdue was going to win that game.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I felt a little nervous down the stretch, especially when
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Trake-off and Ren went out with a cramp when we weren't sure exactly what it was.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Early on in this game, I really just felt like this is the best team in the country you're looking out out there and They really played like it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Braden Smith, Trake often ran.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's a really, the two leaders.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm feeling impressed with Trake often ran, especially with this being his first game of the season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There's at 19 points, 15 rebounds, and five assists.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So really, just a complete performance.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Those are numbers where we may have seen from Jackie, the past couple of years, but I truly didn't expect to see that from Trake often ran, but he was just really physical.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's exactly what Purdue needed to win this game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Although Brandon Smith had a real good game as well, 29 points, 5-10 from 3, and 10-12 from the line also had a handful of rebounds and assists.
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Although he was really good tonight as well.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he got to give the player the game a trick often ran about once doubted.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Incredible first half.
• 2:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a very ED like first half where he was in complete control.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 8 offensive rebounds tonight.
• 3:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: You mentioned that you had 15 total, but eight of them on the offensive in Jake Purdue had 19 offensive rebounds and allowed Alabama just seven after they really struggled, even against Oakland and Evansville on the defensive glass.
• 3:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: We talked to our rebounding being really one of the major keys to game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue absolutely dominated the last night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They won every down at the end of 52 to 28.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: pretty large gap there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned 19 offensive rebounds and produced defensive rebounding percentage was 82%.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So on the means they didn't learn a lot in the last second chance points.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue did get a lot of second chance points.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They had 16 second chance points and obviously those are huge whenever you can get them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: One of the things we all talked about was transition
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Alabama inter the nation or inter this game as one of the nation's best transition teams and Purdue held them to the zero fast break points I'm not from from from from from from Purdue mistakes
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  [SPEAKER_00]: just an incredible performance you go on the road in a hostile environment.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: You have people doubting you clearly had people not even voting for you in the top 10 of the polls when you get three quarters of the first place votes and you're not number one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That means there are some serious doubters out there and best win by any team early in the season so far.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Best win in college basketball so far.
• 4:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jacob, one of the few things I take away from this game that was a concern was actually maybe the opposite of that.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was just that they missed so many easy shots and it's the fourth game in a row if you include the Kentucky game that they just in particular Oscar Cluff just so many shots right at the basket he's missing.
• 5:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I felt like at a point in the game
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Purdue was down a point maybe 31 30 and I thought to myself, if they made their layups, they'd be up 12 points and you kind of felt really good at that point even down that it was clear that Purdue was doing whatever they wanted in particular a trade-confident.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Oscar, Cloth to, he looked really good tonight if he could just convert those layups, which we assume that he will.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Cloth missed a couple of shots staring right at the brand that I think he would normally make.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Daniel Jacobs and did the same thing this year too, shots at the rim.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And, uh, we even saw a jacar here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: See, it pretty good spin move there early in the first half.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And just missed the right, you know, well, why have them lay up basically missed it right at the rim?
• 5:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I think, you know, it really needed to score those.
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, if it was for you, didn't win anything.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: We do have kind of be harping on those a little bit more, but if we, uh, definitely got to clean those up before conference play and, uh,
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: I believe it was pretty efficient, based court on 59% of their possessions, which adds it by pretty good number, 30 paint points and 20 points in the bench.
• 6:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: So Omar Meyer being seven of those, he was three or five in the four and 17 minutes.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: He played pretty well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He looked pretty composed, obviously playing over an Israel and kind of the
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's played into pretty hostile environment himself, so I'm really going to see him kind of see him really good going here and be able to do not handle himself well in that environment like that.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I can his first real real test and not in the career system.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so all five produced starters, played at least 23 minutes.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Traycuffman ran 19 points, 15 rebounds, five assists, as you mentioned.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Eight of those rebounds on the offensive end.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Braidsmith also played 34 points, had a huge second half finished with 29 points, 7 rebounds, four assists, and had a bit of a rough game from the field, 7 for 19 that was 10 for 12 at the line.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the other winning played significant minutes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, Fletcher and Lawyer, seven points he was three for eight from the field, but just one for four from the three point line.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: But I thought, I had a pretty good floor game over all the other starters.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oscar Cleft, 24 minutes, nine points, 11 rebounds.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It looks really good on the boards.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Three on the offensive end.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: CJ Cox played 23 minutes scored three points, not only took two shots, and coming off the bench, and this is what I thought was interesting tonight, Jake 17 minutes for us, Omer Mayor, 7 points, 16 minutes from Daniel Jacobs and 9 points, 5 rebounds, and 15 minutes from
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: And half I he played a pretty good game as well.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: So it looks like that's kind of going to be your rotation.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: We didn't see any of Liam Murphy.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We saw a little bit of Jack Banner.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Six minutes on for outside of the starting five.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you know, Jacobson overmiring to car hair, so kind of be the, you know, the eight that pretty really.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: sticks with down the stretch, but I think throughout the season, it's going to be good to kind of look at Oscar Claff and gain on Jacobs and look at their production kind of together as we have players since they have time for the minutes fairly evenly tonight at Oscar Claff played eight more minutes than on Jacobson, but you can blind their production together.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They finished 18 points and 16 rebounds.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: So essentially, Mashed, triicomponent rents stats.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's a really good production.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been through a shooting.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be better through finish.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just shy of 70 percent.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're 16 to 23.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So they did out for Alabama, 16 days at the line.
• 9:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, and Braden Smith is just a master at getting to the line.
• 9:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to get out a lot.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think another thing that's kind of important to note here is that Purdue is really able to survive Alabama's shooting, especially in the first half of, you see like Alabama couldn't miss there and the first half they ultimately hit 10 threes and then Purdue still had the lead at a half time, so they finished with a threes in the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They took Alabama took 66 total shots.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: 44 of those 66 or 3 points.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So three point three pointers and made 16 of them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they shot just over 36% from three.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: But that's just I don't we talked about it.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then the pre game preview but they're basically either shouldn't have three or didn't shot at the ramp as really nothing in between.
• 10:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we saw that tonight, they shot, got shot 36%.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not, not, not, not bad.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: percentage, I mean, they most teams would be okay with that.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But pretty only produce shot better.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They shot 42 percent, 9 to 21, 47 percent from the field in general.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And produce perimeter defense was better down the stretch, I thought.
• 10:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you, uh, you wonder if, um, you know, kind of the pace, you know, pace and in physicality got to, uh, Alabama a little bit, um, obviously, Alabama was used to run it up and down the floor quite a bit, but, um,
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's like St. John's, well, I don't know if St. John's was a physical with him as that.
• 10:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: We don't want Purdue was.
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'd be curious if they held their ceiling after their half of the game.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know no up for Easter I feel I'm pretty tired.
• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm curious if, well, how I'll be was feeling.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: So Jake Purdue is going to get some more tests here in the preseason coming up pretty soon.
• 11:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: You got Memphis and Texas Tech Down in the Bahamas.
• 11:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: And a pretty good Akron program comes the town on Sunday, 730 tip on the big tin network.
• 11:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: These hips are 3 and 0 after beating James Madison, 8571, Princeton, 104 to 69.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: and pin station on and go.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: 109 to 51.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, de-contest on Wednesday before it gets really tough again next week.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think this, I think both teams really tonight got better because of, you know, because of this game and the both programs have gotten better because of this, you know, kind of series that Alabama period I've had over the past three years, you know, played in Toronto in 2023.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've said last year in Mackey in 2024 and this year, Alabama, I think, really made both teams better, made both programs better.
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: and really like to see, you know, teams doing this early on in the college basketball season.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: But to your point, Bruce got some more tests here with Akron and Memphis and most likely Texas Tech, I expect for us could beat them, but Texas Tech has looked pretty good.
• 12:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: So far, this year as well, this is a tonight game that kind of felt like a March Madness game, you know, producer to a lot of mental toughness on rebounding was a strength we talked about.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And just being on the XQ late in the game, there's a trade set are really important and make a team capable of making a deep run at March.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, the shooting we talked about for me all day and then they were you know, it was survived and I think Roy talks a lot about this team and they proved why they were
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: potentially will be the number one team in the nation again.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, after they get back from the Bahamas, they put Eastern Illinois and then their December looks like this.
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rutgers Iowa State Minnesota Market Auburn Kent State before the big tin really gives underway.
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you and I are going to have a lot to talk about coming up.
• 13:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course you and I will also be back a little later Friday to talk about the the Purdue football game at Washington.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then we'll be back to talk about both of them the Purdue football game at Washington and the Purdue basketball game.
• 13:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Against Akron, Jake, thank you so much for your time, I appreciate it, as always, that was a lot of fun.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: What is fun, Glad's basketball season, and Glad, talking about a win, rather than the alternatives?
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're going to be talking about the alternative to losing a lot this year.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Jake for joining me, like we said, we'll leave back on Friday.
• 14:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: sometime in the afternoon to pre-new the to do washing the football game.
• 14:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back on Saturday or Sunday to recap the football game and Sunday, the Purdue Pat Crane, Man's Best Buggin.
• 14:27
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