So, looks like Matt won’t be Painting the town red at Mizzou.

If you are a B1G Ten basketball fan, you are aware of what has been going on at Purdue this past week. Matt Painter took a meeting and at one point, was rumored to have signed on the dotted line with Mizzou. This was pretty bitter sweet for me. Reason being, on one hand, it would be good to have Purdue maybe take a step back and make room for the Gophers. On the other hand, I want the B1G Ten to be as strong as possible and Matt Painter helps out with that.

I do have to give Painter some props here. Yes, the reason he was going to leave was due to money, but it was money that he wanted his other coaches to get. Mizzou was going to pay Painter a nice 7 year-14 million dollar contract. Painter was making 1.3 million last year (not chump change by any means) which was the 8^th highest salary in the B1G Ten. So, I could see why he would have left, but he didn’t.

It looks like Purdue realized there was a real chance they were about to lose one of the best coaches in the B1G Ten, if not the country. So, they did what they should have, an gave him an 8 year contract. The dollar amount of said contract hasn’t be disclosed as of yet, but it must have been enough to make Painter happy. Overall, this is a good move and just means Purdue is here to stay for awhile….Ugh.

You down with D.E.A.C? Yeah you know me!

            Well, the first game is in the books. Things looked to be starting off on the wrong foot when 3 out of the 6 guys playing last night, weren’t sure if they were going to make it on time. Luckily, with about 2 minutes to spare, our 5^th and 6^th men showed up. I know I said 3, but the 3^rd guy showed up for shoot around, so it worked out. This was the first game in a league that is playing its first annual 5 on 5 men’s league. The rules are pretty simple. You play two 20 min halves, you do scoring by 1’s and 2’s instead of 2’s and 3’s, which is no big deal, because we only keep score by how many points the other team is up. The 20 min halves, however, is a different story. There is no clock running, the lady keeps time on her I-Phone and comes in and tells us when to start and than comes back when there are 5 mins left in the half. This got really confusing towards the end of the game. We were up by 2 with (under 5 mins because that is the last time we heard anything) so Jordan went in for a lay-up, missed, the other team came down hit a 2 and the lady said, “GAME”. Well, we were tied and now had to play overtime. We ended up winning by 3 in OT, but it never should have gotten there. Oh well, it’s the first week and I’m sure some things will be tweaked.

            How did everyone play? For the most part, I think everyone played pretty well and knew their role on the team. We only had 6 of our 8 guys as noted above, but we still managed to run and gun. Our starting line-up was:

Jordan

Joe

Kenny

Ben

Jake

Jordan is a very fast paced player. Every rebound that we got on the other end, he was looking to push. This is a pretty good style for us though because Ben, Joe and I all like to run out to the wing and pop an open 3 in transition. If we miss, no worries, we have Jake down there to get the rebounds. Or 6^th man was Derrick. He was nice 6^th man to have because he, like Jordan, likes to push the pace at the PG spot and gets to the rack pretty easily. He is always a sneaky defender, he likes to lie in the weeds than sneak up and poke the ball away. I think it will be interesting to see how the other 2 guys gel in. Overall, I give our team the following grades:

3 point shooting: B

Rebounding: C-

Screen Setting: B+

Passing to the open man: B+

Defense: B

Transition layups: B+

Overall, I think we played a B game and still won. So, hopefully that is just a sign of things to come.

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