Below is an article that I was not able to finish before the NCAA tournament began on the 18th. That being said, this past weekend made it appear that I knew what I was talking about when I wrote this article (Note: the article was not completed):
I don't know if I have been drinking too much of the kool-aid or if I'm just plane naive, but the Purdue Men's basketball team can still do some damage in this year's NCAA tournament (despite ESPN's favorite injury).
How is this possible? Well, it's right in front of our faces and most people don't even think about it anymore, that this now post-season basketball. Any talking head that said Purdue is a wounded animal or lost their intensity is in desperate needs to extract their head from their hindquarters. I have watched E'Twan Moore, JaJuan Johnson, Chris Kramer, and Keaton Grant over the past 3 plus years and I have witnessed with my own eyes that they're not the type of players that will quit, or won't come in unmotivated, especially with the position they're in right now. These are players that train hard work hard during the off season and emit unrelenting hustle during the regular season just to get into this tournament.
Here are just a couple examples of what I'm writing about:
I don't know if I have been drinking too much of the kool-aid or if I'm just plane naive, but the Purdue Men's basketball team can still do some damage in this year's NCAA tournament (despite ESPN's favorite injury).
How is this possible? Well, it's right in front of our faces and most people don't even think about it anymore, that this now post-season basketball. Any talking head that said Purdue is a wounded animal or lost their intensity is in desperate needs to extract their head from their hindquarters. I have watched E'Twan Moore, JaJuan Johnson, Chris Kramer, and Keaton Grant over the past 3 plus years and I have witnessed with my own eyes that they're not the type of players that will quit, or won't come in unmotivated, especially with the position they're in right now. These are players that train hard work hard during the off season and emit unrelenting hustle during the regular season just to get into this tournament.
Here are just a couple examples of what I'm writing about:
Chris Kramer doesn't need his legs to play defense.
Smooge catches West Virginia sleeping
I don't think the above clips have anything to do with me drinking the Purdue kool-aid. Also, observe that both clips are from games against big time opponents where, yes, Purdue won.
Another reason they can deliver is their level of NCAA tournament experience. This will be the fourth tournament appearance for both Kramer and Grant and the third for Johnson and Moore. That being said, there is no question that this team understands the demands and increased level of play that happens in this tournament.
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