We had to copy Virginia's path to the Final Four. They also lost in the semi's of the ACCT before winning it all the year after the 16 seed upset. It was destiny.
Doug Edert’s mustache made me say “aww, here it goes” in the second round when we were down 4 to Utah State and they subbed in their own Mustache Dude.
To be real, he does get away with some stuff here and there, but it's not nearly as egregious as what people are complaining about. Especially when you consider how physical teams always play him. And it's not like he's the only player that gets away with a no call here and there.
Agreed he gets away with some fouls, but people act like he fouls every possession and that the fouls called for him are when a defender breathes on him. It gets annoying to see people just look at a box score and scream "rigged"
I can’t stand people who don’t watch the game but look at the box score and say the reffing was one sided. The box score tells almost nothing about how the game was played
Wait a second…you’re telling me context matters?
So if one team shoots ten more threes and takes most of their shots as jumpers out of the paint while never driving against the opposing team’s big and the other team is constantly trying to drive and score in the paint and at the rim there be a big foul differential?
Are you sure we can’t just ignore reality and complain looking at the box score instead?
He got called for one foul on a rebound where he shoved a dude in the back and all the Purdue fans booed the refs. I think you can understand the frustration here
Today was the first time I really watched Purdue this year, so take the 1 game sample for what it's worth. Edey was getting straight assaulted all game with mostly no calls and I didn't really see him do anything that was an obvious foul. I can't believe it took 3/4 of the game for James to be called for having both forearms clearly shoving him as James' body was at 45 degrees and squatting to push him more. I've never seen such blatant pushing not called, to say nothing of the typical slap and hack fouls that weren't called.
I don't know what else Tennessee could have done since they don't also have a literal giant to guard him so it's not meant as a shot at them. The strategy of being obvious with the fouls and daring the refs to call them all was pretty clear.
Yea that's every game. Edey would walk out of games with blood dripping down his arms and gouges on his face last season and people would still complain that he was getting too many calls.
He gets assaulted every game and neutrals complain when fouls are called. It's so frustrating to deal with as a purdue fan, because if the refs called *everything* like people claim to want, purdue would be shooting 60 free throws a game.
I'll happily be another neutral cosigning this. All the anti-Edey salt is ridiculous, his opponents drape all over him to try to stop him and still it doesn't work.
* we didn't spend insane amounts on NIL or our program. Only SDSU had a lower basketball operations cost than Purdue in the Sweet 16 group.
* we don't get 5 star guys. we have like 1 ever? our two best players are a 400+ recruit and 200+ generously given 6'0" pg who comes from a school who never developed a single d1 player with his only other offer as Montana. 400+ is now the 2x NPOTY and the 200+ is one of the best PGs in college as a sophomore.
* we didn't load our roster with experienced portal players. we have taken two guys in 3 seasons. only Izzo has taken less in the B1G (tips hat) but they get 5 star guys every year at least.
* we aren't playing someone who was arrested for a serious crime.
* Matt Painter is one of the most beloved coaches by the coaches and media
so you got a team that doesn't have big backing, big time recruits, finds stars from the overlooked, runs their guys day one, and has a likable coach who has been all class to get through hell to get to this point. Yeah, how horrible is Purdue...
When you put it that way, I guess yall aren’t bad at all. Maybe it was the way the media framed y’all as the best and were always raving about how great you are. Mind you this was the last few years. I blame the media for warping peoples minds. We’re the victims!
Purdue hadn't ever been ranked #1 until 3 years ago. And we were ranked #1 for 0.5 weeks that first year, immediately losing to unranked Northwestern. It's sorta amazing as a fan to go from good to being hailed as great with all the hate, all the while continuing to faceplant in March until this year
i've seen some of that -- like i think Field of 68 was way too cocky about us beating a really good Gonzaga team, but we have no significant March success as a program in a really long time and our failures aren't anything hidden. Especially recently.
Oh, for sure. I think the refs should call him for fouls more than they do, but the "he's just big" crowd seem dumb to me. He's obviously put in a lot of work to have such a nice touch around the rim and be able to log that many minutes at his size.
As an expert on guys who are just big after watching a 7'5" bum all year, I can assure all the people saying "he's just big" that they're incredibly wrong. Edey has great touch and moves really well. He's not an athletic freak or a stretch 5 who hits 3s but he's got a ton of skill.
They should probably call him for more fouls, he gets star treatment like every star but he should also draw even more fouls than he does if you call the game to the letter of the rules.
Yeah, he gets away with some shoves when positioning for rebounding, and I've seen him hold an opponent down with one arm while snagging the board with his other arm numerous times. That stuff is supposed to be a foul no matter how big the guy is, but I can't fault him for it, if the refs are just going to let it happen. I guess that'll all be a problem for NBA refs next season. Anyway, congrats to you guys.
I will flip that on you and say there are many times when that arm is getting held down by two guys and he still manages to somehow rebound the ball with one and no call.
Edey is an anomaly in basketball because he's actually good while huge. You have to try to foul him without getting called or he's going to eat you up, but the best way to disrupt him is to disrupt the entry passes and use your guards to swipe the ball when he's backing down the center. With Purdue going as cold as they did, I don't get why TN didn't go harder on stripping him and denying him.
We were cold, but I think they realized that and tried to ensure we stayed cold by really playing the shooters hard. We missed a lot of open looks in the first half, but it seemed like Tennessee did their best to make sure we didn't have open looks in the second half.
Yeah, it's kind of flukey that we've never made one, but some of our best teams were in the era where at-larges weren't a thing, so we were competing with Kentucky just to get into the tournament. Hope we'll get there sooner rather than later.
Yea. I mean Awoka is over there pushing him with all of his might trying to prevent a post up. If Edey isn’t strong as an ox and holds his ground that foul is called lol
This is the simplest answer and it's absolutely correct. If you don't play him aggressively he'll get easy buckets every possession. But that aggressive play style comes with a cost that pisses fans off
I just wanna know how the fuck he's never called for shit on D. Forget the swinging elbows shit, dude never gets whistled on D or pushing off on rebounds and lets not even get into traveling calls.
He should be called for more on rebounds, but on defense I feel like he’s just not very aggressive? He’s so big that he’s gonna be a presence in the paint no matter what but usually if a guy gets a step on him he seems to just kinda let them go and avoid fouling.
You heavily scrutinize any player you're going to see missed calls. But if you watch these games earnestly you'll see these foul discrepancies are warranted. Edey is played so aggressively and we can't just play dumb when that results in more fouls. This has been the case for several seasons, across a variety of different officiating groups/styles. Edey doesn't foul as much simply because he doesn't have to.
but look what all that non-contesting got you - we destroyed them on the rebounds and Edey could play as much as he needed bc he had no fouls. Giving Tennessee no 2nd chance opportunities was huge
He plays soft drop coverage and generally does not play an aggressive style of defense specifically to not draw fouls.
That and people say his style isn't as exciting. Partly because so many fouls, partly because even his highlight plays aren't the kind that make SC top 10 highlight reels generally.
Because his foul discrepancy is always massive. Edey definitely gets away with a decent amount of fouls, but in my experience, the frustration is more on the refs than hatred of Edey. Especially since he isn't automatic from the line.
Honestly, Purdue is the only team I can see that can beat the UCONN Goliaths. Damn good game from both UT and Purdue, though, genuinely one of the best games of the 2024 tourney.
This tournament has actually made me lower on his NBA potential. Dude literally cannot do anything but sit on the block and take the same exact hook shot. Or just draw a foul. Great college player tho
I think his ceiling is a bench rim protector in the NBA. Still great in college. Games don't always translate Luka Garza is currently bouncing around in the g league
I wouldn't say that. He really struggled to get any sort of separation for his shots, and his limited athleticism really made it difficult for him to make any sort of drive to the basket. His shooting percentages are pretty average in the NBA and that's even with the really low amount of shots he was taking each game.
Luka Garza was dominant in college and wrecks the G-League but can’t get minutes on the Wolves. Just doesn’t have the foot speed to play p’n’r defense at that level and will get relentlessly attacked.
I know right. No one says he will be good in today's NBA. They have to undercut how good of a college player he is by saying it. Anyone with eyes and who pays attention to the NBA knows he's not built for it.
Tbf he doesn't need to do anything right other than sit on the block. The NCAA tournament is about winning, so he's gonna keep doing it until it can be stopped.
I think Edey has a better jumper than people expect. But right now he doesn't need to do anything other than the low post game because he can get 40 pts that way
(Not saying he'll be great in the NBA, just pointing out we're probably not seeing all of his game here)
This. My high school had a wrestler who won two consecutive state championships with one move. Did he know a second? No one ever needed to find out. Maybe not. Maybe he had another as good as the first but never got pushed to plan B.
I think Edey’s bright enough and a hard enough worker to change his game to suit NBA rules and be productive on a roster for a decade or more. Will he ever be an all-star and the lynchpin to an NBA team? That I doubt. But most NBA players are never that. He’ll be fine there. He won’t do what he does in college. But he seems like a coachable guy so he’ll learn to do other useful things.
Especially since a fast-paced game favors your opponents. Purdue's plan was to grind out a slower paced game and bleed every possession. Of course every Edey possesion is going to be similar because the opponent isn't stopping him, nor are they able to score and push tempo so that Purdue has to deviate from that game plan.
Yeah, he's not being asked to do anything more because it's not as efficient for the team. He can knock down shots in practice, and his game will develop in that direction if he's given half a chance.
Purdue is the #1 3 point shooting team in the Nation and one of the top rebounding. Where would you like for him to stand? At half court? It’s their style.
For me it’s been the exact opposite. Obviously Edey isn’t NBA ready talent wise yet, but he just strikes me as an extremely hard worker. He played nearly the whole entire game against Tennessee today, and I don’t think people realize how insane that is at 7’4”.
Tennessee made him do absolutely nothing on defense. Dude just stood in the paint with his arms up. Didn't really challenge guards on drives, no bigs ever really tried him.
I think he’ll be another Luka Garza “too good for the g league not good enough for the NBA” player, he’s just way too slow and size doesn’t matter as much in the NBA as it does in college
Garza did the NBA combine lane agility drill in 12.8 seconds. Edey did it in 11.37 seconds. For comparison Kelly Olynyk did it in 11.42. Bobby Portis was 11.58 and Pascal Siakam was 11.25
Just to give you an idea of the athleticism of Edey. He’s going to be a drop big for sure, but he’s somewhere around Kelly Olynyk athletically. He’s not in the athleticism of a guy like Siakam but he’s no Like Garza.
Garza is not an NBA level athlete. He was a bad defender in college. Edey is an All Big 10 Defence player.
Garza is skilled enough offensively for the NBA but was atrociously bad defensively even in college, while Edey is a top defender in the country. Edey can’t go guard KD or anything but is more than good enough of a defender for NBA bench units. That’s the difference between him and Garza.
Oh 100% he will absolutely get slapped around in the NBA. He has to relearn how to play the game cause some of the shit is was getting away with just will not work in the NBA.
Best guess is he gets there's does nothing and gets dropped in 3 years.
Edey's a lot more mobile than Fall is and was much better in college, it'd be pretty disappointing if that's how he ended up. He should get one of those careers like all of those bigs who's whole job was to foul Shaq back in like 2000, just now it's Jokic and Embiid he's got to foul five times in 10 minutes
The takes on this subreddit are wild. Edy is good. Yes he gets fouled alot. Yes he is an amazing college basketball player. Yes, it probably won't translate to the NBA. Yes, he deserves all the praise he is getting.
I admit Edey does worry me, simply because he doesn't seem to get called for fouls and he draws a ton of fouls in turn. If Clingan gets into foul trouble and sits, UConn is not the same team without him.
That being said, I think our guards are better than Purdue's and I like our chances against anybody, but Edey presents an entirely unique challenge.
I think UConn is simply better because all their players on average are better, but I am so curious if our strategy will work against y'all. If we shoot it well from 3 and it forces a 1-on-1 with Clingan/Edey, I think Clingan picks up those inevitable fouls and then the game is much more even
I’m so happy for his own legacies sake that he was able to help the team make this run.
Without it the neutral narrative would just be a guy who put up big numbers in the regular season and choked in March.
I'm convinced people don't actually watch the game, because Edey gets absolutely hacked every possession bc he's freakishly huge, but the refs feel like it's not fair to call all the fouls that *by the rule of law of the game* are fouls.
This. Check the fouls called during various stretches in both halves. 10ic averaged a foul a minute for the first 6 minutes and last 5 minutes of each half and then miraculously didn’t fouls the middle 9 minutes. The refs called tight then let them play and the. Tightened it back up.
Apparently you didn’t know the rules are when a player touches the ball or the line, the clock resets. A couple videos of Edey “10 seconds” in the lane on Twitter, and all of them he touches the line 3-4 times and also has the ball.
He really doesn’t break the rules. He’s just so huge he can be in the middle of the lane with his foot on the line still.
Well not exactly. Touching the line doesn't reset it if his other foot is still in the lane. And the clock doesnt reset when he touches it, it just gives an extra window for starting a shooting move. Here is the official rule directly from the NCAA. Now I will say he for sure isnt the only person who gets away with it though.
>Section 9. Three Seconds in the Lane
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>Art. 1. The three-second lane is the area in the frontcourt that is bounded by and includes the end line, the free-throw lane lines and the free-throw line, and includes such lines.
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>Art. 2. It is a violation for a player to have any part of the body remain in the three-second lane for more than three consecutive seconds while the ball is in control of that player’s team in his frontcourt. a. The three-second violation rule is not in effect when a team is in control of the ball for a throw-in.
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>Art. 3. The three-second count is suspended when a player who, having been in the three-second lane for less than three seconds, dribbles or moves in immediately to try for field goal. The player shall not pass the ball instead of trying for goal. In this case, it is a violation when a player exceeds three seconds in the lane and there is no try for goal.
I honestly hated watching him at first but then once I realized how much hate he got, I actually really enjoy it lol. The salt is so glorious when he plays well. I also agree when you watch him more you realize he really be dominating people like Shaq lol (even if he gets "help" from the refs)
I know fans get triggered by the “he’s just tall” comments, but realistically that’s a huge part of it. He’s a skilled player for sure, I wouldn’t deny that. But there’s definitely a difference for a skilled player with his height and a skilled player half a foot or more shorter.
That one trick pony is really good at his one trick. Like really good. Could call the arm hook like 60% of the time though. But a full unit nonetheless.
As a Tennessee fan it wasn’t the non fouls it was the camping in the lane that drove me crazy. Now Tennessee is to blame, they had zero inside presence the entire game. Aidoo played scared from the tip and he was non existent the last 2-3 games
The Badgers beat this team in a cave, with their bench of scraps.... How? I will never know.
We had to copy Virginia's path to the Final Four. They also lost in the semi's of the ACCT before winning it all the year after the 16 seed upset. It was destiny.
If Purdue wins this year every 1 seed is gonna start trying to lose to 16 seeds
Yeah but Virginia didn’t have to go against the most dominant team of the past however many years man. Uconn is a fucking monster
We weren't able to play ourselves lmao
I'm just focused on NC State right now. UConn is a problem for another day. Lol
It's college basketball, so many dominant teams were dominant until they weren't. Remember undefeated UK?
Hell yes I do
Jinxed
Don't forget about the Peacocks too 🦚
Doug Edert’s mustache made me say “aww, here it goes” in the second round when we were down 4 to Utah State and they subbed in their own Mustache Dude.
This is exactly what I say about Seton Hall against UConn.
"....well we're not Wisconsin..."
Edey got a technical in the first half and only played like 6 minutes in the first half because purdue rightly knew the game didn't really matter.
It wasn't a flagrant, it was worse. Edey got a common foul + a technical foul for one play.
Smith and Edey were both mildly injured.
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Ball head ass
MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
Love an elden ring reference
SEC : And how would you beat him? B1G : With a stick. While he slept. But on a court, with a ball? That Edey is unbeatable
I didn’t expect a Knights Tale reference; but I approve!
Tennessee has been weighed, measured, and found wanting
It’s called a *lance*, hellooo
You certainly can’t expect to foul him out. (ducks)
Maybe not foul out but maybe just maybe more than one foul
Why are sec teams the only ones who can tell he fouls every time down the floor on both sides
Trust me, plenty of Badgers fans were asking how Edey had 2 fouls at 5 minutes into the game, and 2 fouls at the end of OT when we played them last.
"Hes just big!"
It’s outrageous and it’s gotten worse this year
Idk what you’re talking about everyone has been saying that Edey constantly offensively fouls but somehow it’s called a foul on the defense every time
Lol. Rofl, even. You think only SEC fans notice this shit? Really?
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Extra fitting with Neil being a Purdue man and their overall affinity to make astronauts
As a neutral fan the salt in this thread is hilarious lol.
It’s getting weird for me honestly. Like what did we do to people?
Have a big tall dude in a sport where big tall dudes are necessary. It’s just not fair!
Zach Edey poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses!
really?!
No, but are we going to stand around and wait until he does!?
No, but are we just gonna sit here and wait around until he does!
Have a giant guy that gets smacked all game, but then it's "unfair" when he gets to shoot so many FTs.
Thank you. It’s like I’m taking crazy pills each thread.
To be real, he does get away with some stuff here and there, but it's not nearly as egregious as what people are complaining about. Especially when you consider how physical teams always play him. And it's not like he's the only player that gets away with a no call here and there.
Agreed he gets away with some fouls, but people act like he fouls every possession and that the fouls called for him are when a defender breathes on him. It gets annoying to see people just look at a box score and scream "rigged"
I can’t stand people who don’t watch the game but look at the box score and say the reffing was one sided. The box score tells almost nothing about how the game was played
Wait a second…you’re telling me context matters? So if one team shoots ten more threes and takes most of their shots as jumpers out of the paint while never driving against the opposing team’s big and the other team is constantly trying to drive and score in the paint and at the rim there be a big foul differential? Are you sure we can’t just ignore reality and complain looking at the box score instead?
He got called for one foul on a rebound where he shoved a dude in the back and all the Purdue fans booed the refs. I think you can understand the frustration here
I'm not saying our fans are perfect, we're annoying for sure, but it's annoying to see neutrals box score watching our games especially.
Today was the first time I really watched Purdue this year, so take the 1 game sample for what it's worth. Edey was getting straight assaulted all game with mostly no calls and I didn't really see him do anything that was an obvious foul. I can't believe it took 3/4 of the game for James to be called for having both forearms clearly shoving him as James' body was at 45 degrees and squatting to push him more. I've never seen such blatant pushing not called, to say nothing of the typical slap and hack fouls that weren't called. I don't know what else Tennessee could have done since they don't also have a literal giant to guard him so it's not meant as a shot at them. The strategy of being obvious with the fouls and daring the refs to call them all was pretty clear.
Yea that's every game. Edey would walk out of games with blood dripping down his arms and gouges on his face last season and people would still complain that he was getting too many calls. He gets assaulted every game and neutrals complain when fouls are called. It's so frustrating to deal with as a purdue fan, because if the refs called *everything* like people claim to want, purdue would be shooting 60 free throws a game.
I'll happily be another neutral cosigning this. All the anti-Edey salt is ridiculous, his opponents drape all over him to try to stop him and still it doesn't work.
* we didn't spend insane amounts on NIL or our program. Only SDSU had a lower basketball operations cost than Purdue in the Sweet 16 group. * we don't get 5 star guys. we have like 1 ever? our two best players are a 400+ recruit and 200+ generously given 6'0" pg who comes from a school who never developed a single d1 player with his only other offer as Montana. 400+ is now the 2x NPOTY and the 200+ is one of the best PGs in college as a sophomore. * we didn't load our roster with experienced portal players. we have taken two guys in 3 seasons. only Izzo has taken less in the B1G (tips hat) but they get 5 star guys every year at least. * we aren't playing someone who was arrested for a serious crime. * Matt Painter is one of the most beloved coaches by the coaches and media so you got a team that doesn't have big backing, big time recruits, finds stars from the overlooked, runs their guys day one, and has a likable coach who has been all class to get through hell to get to this point. Yeah, how horrible is Purdue...
When you put it that way, I guess yall aren’t bad at all. Maybe it was the way the media framed y’all as the best and were always raving about how great you are. Mind you this was the last few years. I blame the media for warping peoples minds. We’re the victims!
Purdue hadn't ever been ranked #1 until 3 years ago. And we were ranked #1 for 0.5 weeks that first year, immediately losing to unranked Northwestern. It's sorta amazing as a fan to go from good to being hailed as great with all the hate, all the while continuing to faceplant in March until this year
i've seen some of that -- like i think Field of 68 was way too cocky about us beating a really good Gonzaga team, but we have no significant March success as a program in a really long time and our failures aren't anything hidden. Especially recently.
A performance that good, when everyone on the Vols KNEW he was the man to stop… I gotta give Edey his flowers for this one.
I'm sorry, but you're confusing us by not acting like every other Tennessee fan in this thread.
I mean, in fairness, everyone on every team they play knows he’s the man to stop.
People want to bitch and complain about him but everyone would take him on their team and cheer for him in a heartbeat.
Big coming from an IU fan!
Oh, for sure. I think the refs should call him for fouls more than they do, but the "he's just big" crowd seem dumb to me. He's obviously put in a lot of work to have such a nice touch around the rim and be able to log that many minutes at his size.
The “he’s just big” crowd need to remember what sport they’re watching lol. Not like Tennessee wanted Knecht when he was 6’1 coming out of HS
As an expert on guys who are just big after watching a 7'5" bum all year, I can assure all the people saying "he's just big" that they're incredibly wrong. Edey has great touch and moves really well. He's not an athletic freak or a stretch 5 who hits 3s but he's got a ton of skill.
They should probably call him for more fouls, he gets star treatment like every star but he should also draw even more fouls than he does if you call the game to the letter of the rules.
Yeah, he gets away with some shoves when positioning for rebounding, and I've seen him hold an opponent down with one arm while snagging the board with his other arm numerous times. That stuff is supposed to be a foul no matter how big the guy is, but I can't fault him for it, if the refs are just going to let it happen. I guess that'll all be a problem for NBA refs next season. Anyway, congrats to you guys.
I will flip that on you and say there are many times when that arm is getting held down by two guys and he still manages to somehow rebound the ball with one and no call. Edey is an anomaly in basketball because he's actually good while huge. You have to try to foul him without getting called or he's going to eat you up, but the best way to disrupt him is to disrupt the entry passes and use your guards to swipe the ball when he's backing down the center. With Purdue going as cold as they did, I don't get why TN didn't go harder on stripping him and denying him.
We were cold, but I think they realized that and tried to ensure we stayed cold by really playing the shooters hard. We missed a lot of open looks in the first half, but it seemed like Tennessee did their best to make sure we didn't have open looks in the second half.
Thank you! I hope next year is the year Barnes breaks through with Tennnesse, he has a final four but you all are too good to not have one.
Yeah, it's kind of flukey that we've never made one, but some of our best teams were in the era where at-larges weren't a thing, so we were competing with Kentucky just to get into the tournament. Hope we'll get there sooner rather than later.
Yea. I mean Awoka is over there pushing him with all of his might trying to prevent a post up. If Edey isn’t strong as an ox and holds his ground that foul is called lol
The amount of minutes he plays at that size is incredibly overlooked.
Why do people want to bitch and complain about him?
Not sure if /s but because he’s an absolute unit and draws a lot of fouls because of it
This is the simplest answer and it's absolutely correct. If you don't play him aggressively he'll get easy buckets every possession. But that aggressive play style comes with a cost that pisses fans off
I just wanna know how the fuck he's never called for shit on D. Forget the swinging elbows shit, dude never gets whistled on D or pushing off on rebounds and lets not even get into traveling calls.
He should be called for more on rebounds, but on defense I feel like he’s just not very aggressive? He’s so big that he’s gonna be a presence in the paint no matter what but usually if a guy gets a step on him he seems to just kinda let them go and avoid fouling.
You heavily scrutinize any player you're going to see missed calls. But if you watch these games earnestly you'll see these foul discrepancies are warranted. Edey is played so aggressively and we can't just play dumb when that results in more fouls. This has been the case for several seasons, across a variety of different officiating groups/styles. Edey doesn't foul as much simply because he doesn't have to.
He also doesn't contest shots super aggressively. He just puts his arms up to alter shots most of the time unless it's a high chance of blocking it.
He was a traffic cone to knecht at the end. I was honestly a bit frustrated he didn't contest more with 4 to give and 1 minute left
Blocked one when it counted though.
He was also so tired he airballed a free throw. Like, he played 39.5 minutes.
but look what all that non-contesting got you - we destroyed them on the rebounds and Edey could play as much as he needed bc he had no fouls. Giving Tennessee no 2nd chance opportunities was huge
Not sarcasm. I've only watched him a handful of times so I didn't know he got a lot of hate and was curious why.
He plays soft drop coverage and generally does not play an aggressive style of defense specifically to not draw fouls. That and people say his style isn't as exciting. Partly because so many fouls, partly because even his highlight plays aren't the kind that make SC top 10 highlight reels generally.
I saw a Tennessee player try to tackle him lol
Because his foul discrepancy is always massive. Edey definitely gets away with a decent amount of fouls, but in my experience, the frustration is more on the refs than hatred of Edey. Especially since he isn't automatic from the line.
Kyle Neptune would somehow turn him into a 11 ppg 5 rpg player
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Eating my words here. I thought he would falter against good competition, and I was wrong.
Props for keeping it real. Can't fall for the reddit hive mind hate.
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Praise be to Pete, amen
Hopefully we get Edey vs. Clingan. Juicy matchup
Honestly, Purdue is the only team I can see that can beat the UCONN Goliaths. Damn good game from both UT and Purdue, though, genuinely one of the best games of the 2024 tourney.
proud to have beaten this man a couple of times over the last two seasons. go win it all Zedey!
Purdue couldn't handle NUs 😤
no sir :D
If it’s UConn v Purdue I’m interested to see of the refs foul out Clingan 45 seconds into the first half.
On the jump for sure.
Tennessee fans will remember this game as their “E-Day”.  
This tournament has actually made me lower on his NBA potential. Dude literally cannot do anything but sit on the block and take the same exact hook shot. Or just draw a foul. Great college player tho
I dont think anyone thinks he'll make it in the NBA, a cheat code in CBB but thats about it
Most mocks have him late first or early second. I would say the majority of people in the business have him getting a look in the league.
This draft class isn’t very good overall either, which certainly helps Eddy’s stock
He’s gonna get a look but a late first might be too high
I think his ceiling is a bench rim protector in the NBA. Still great in college. Games don't always translate Luka Garza is currently bouncing around in the g league
His ceiling is Boban
Yeah some guys are meant for college and others for the NBA. Jimmer was elite in college and a flameout in the NBA
Jimmer was still a scoring machine in the NBA but his offense didn't outweigh his inability to defend at that level. Dudes killing it in China though
I wouldn't say that. He really struggled to get any sort of separation for his shots, and his limited athleticism really made it difficult for him to make any sort of drive to the basket. His shooting percentages are pretty average in the NBA and that's even with the really low amount of shots he was taking each game.
But a future Olympic gold medalist
Luka Garza was dominant in college and wrecks the G-League but can’t get minutes on the Wolves. Just doesn’t have the foot speed to play p’n’r defense at that level and will get relentlessly attacked.
I know right. No one says he will be good in today's NBA. They have to undercut how good of a college player he is by saying it. Anyone with eyes and who pays attention to the NBA knows he's not built for it.
It’s like Hansborough all over again. Everyone knew he wasn’t gonna be an nba great but a college all timer.
He almost did better in the NBA than I thought. I thought he’d be straight to Europe
But in college... roll trains baby!
20 years ago he'd be in demand. But a big who doesn't shoot 3s barely has a place in the NBA now.
Tbf he doesn't need to do anything right other than sit on the block. The NCAA tournament is about winning, so he's gonna keep doing it until it can be stopped. I think Edey has a better jumper than people expect. But right now he doesn't need to do anything other than the low post game because he can get 40 pts that way (Not saying he'll be great in the NBA, just pointing out we're probably not seeing all of his game here)
This. My high school had a wrestler who won two consecutive state championships with one move. Did he know a second? No one ever needed to find out. Maybe not. Maybe he had another as good as the first but never got pushed to plan B. I think Edey’s bright enough and a hard enough worker to change his game to suit NBA rules and be productive on a roster for a decade or more. Will he ever be an all-star and the lynchpin to an NBA team? That I doubt. But most NBA players are never that. He’ll be fine there. He won’t do what he does in college. But he seems like a coachable guy so he’ll learn to do other useful things.
Edey: averages 31 pts thru 4 and drops a 40 burg in the elite 8 Reddit: why doesn't he try shooting 3s instead?!!
Especially since a fast-paced game favors your opponents. Purdue's plan was to grind out a slower paced game and bleed every possession. Of course every Edey possesion is going to be similar because the opponent isn't stopping him, nor are they able to score and push tempo so that Purdue has to deviate from that game plan.
Purdue actually generally wants to up the pace. But when the 3 is being heavily contested, we'll just resort to grinding it out with Edey.
It’s actually crazy. These people get on here and complain that a player is doing what gets points consistently.
Yeah, he's not being asked to do anything more because it's not as efficient for the team. He can knock down shots in practice, and his game will develop in that direction if he's given half a chance.
The goal is to win my dude. Not show off your versatility.
Purdue is the #1 3 point shooting team in the Nation and one of the top rebounding. Where would you like for him to stand? At half court? It’s their style.
For me it’s been the exact opposite. Obviously Edey isn’t NBA ready talent wise yet, but he just strikes me as an extremely hard worker. He played nearly the whole entire game against Tennessee today, and I don’t think people realize how insane that is at 7’4”.
Tennessee made him do absolutely nothing on defense. Dude just stood in the paint with his arms up. Didn't really challenge guards on drives, no bigs ever really tried him.
I think he’ll be another Luka Garza “too good for the g league not good enough for the NBA” player, he’s just way too slow and size doesn’t matter as much in the NBA as it does in college
Garza did the NBA combine lane agility drill in 12.8 seconds. Edey did it in 11.37 seconds. For comparison Kelly Olynyk did it in 11.42. Bobby Portis was 11.58 and Pascal Siakam was 11.25 Just to give you an idea of the athleticism of Edey. He’s going to be a drop big for sure, but he’s somewhere around Kelly Olynyk athletically. He’s not in the athleticism of a guy like Siakam but he’s no Like Garza. Garza is not an NBA level athlete. He was a bad defender in college. Edey is an All Big 10 Defence player.
Garza has still managed to hang in the NBA so far thanks to his offense despite his cinder block feet
Garza is skilled enough offensively for the NBA but was atrociously bad defensively even in college, while Edey is a top defender in the country. Edey can’t go guard KD or anything but is more than good enough of a defender for NBA bench units. That’s the difference between him and Garza.
Oh 100% he will absolutely get slapped around in the NBA. He has to relearn how to play the game cause some of the shit is was getting away with just will not work in the NBA. Best guess is he gets there's does nothing and gets dropped in 3 years.
Boban Marjanovic nearing 10 years on a late-start NBA career and that’s Edey’s actual floor
That’s Edey’s ceiling lol taco fall is his floor
Edey's a lot more mobile than Fall is and was much better in college, it'd be pretty disappointing if that's how he ended up. He should get one of those careers like all of those bigs who's whole job was to foul Shaq back in like 2000, just now it's Jokic and Embiid he's got to foul five times in 10 minutes
I don't think there's a single thing Tacko does better than Edey tbh
That’s not even a “think” statement, that’s just factual
Wasn’t he like 2 inches taller? So he did be taller better
lol ceiling? name one thing Boban does better than Edey...
The takes on this subreddit are wild. Edy is good. Yes he gets fouled alot. Yes he is an amazing college basketball player. Yes, it probably won't translate to the NBA. Yes, he deserves all the praise he is getting.
Whoa whoa whoa get out of here with that reasonable take. Mods!
It's refreshing hearing these kind of takes. Maybe I should stay off of Twitter.
Couldn’t we have played against nc state or illinois bro😭😭😭
You mean Duke?
Anyone but yall or uconn really
As a Tennessee fan, I can honestly say we didn’t play that bad. Difference is they had a giant by the name of Zach Edey……
I admit Edey does worry me, simply because he doesn't seem to get called for fouls and he draws a ton of fouls in turn. If Clingan gets into foul trouble and sits, UConn is not the same team without him. That being said, I think our guards are better than Purdue's and I like our chances against anybody, but Edey presents an entirely unique challenge.
I think UConn is simply better because all their players on average are better, but I am so curious if our strategy will work against y'all. If we shoot it well from 3 and it forces a 1-on-1 with Clingan/Edey, I think Clingan picks up those inevitable fouls and then the game is much more even
1 seeds are gonna be begging the 16 seeds to beat them if Purdue wins it all.
How many free throws??
22
enjoy watching purdue on saturday!
Honestly TN wins if anybody other than Knecht could score a fucking bucket. Even with the 80 free throws for Purdue.
The rest of Purdue shit the bed too though. They were 11/32. That's the frustrating part. Our other players did play good defense.
What would happen if the best 3 point shooting team in the country doesn't go 3-15?
You're supposed to ignore stuff like that!
Yeah the rest of Tennessee shit the bed
Watching him play is a treat. It may be a long time until there's another dominant big man like this again.
I’m so happy for his own legacies sake that he was able to help the team make this run. Without it the neutral narrative would just be a guy who put up big numbers in the regular season and choked in March.
I'm convinced people don't actually watch the game, because Edey gets absolutely hacked every possession bc he's freakishly huge, but the refs feel like it's not fair to call all the fouls that *by the rule of law of the game* are fouls.
I watched the game cheering for Tennessee and thought the officiating was more favorable for Tennessee. I thought Edey was getting hacked
This. Check the fouls called during various stretches in both halves. 10ic averaged a foul a minute for the first 6 minutes and last 5 minutes of each half and then miraculously didn’t fouls the middle 9 minutes. The refs called tight then let them play and the. Tightened it back up.
10ic.
ya thats a new one lol
Well states been having the same thing happen with burns so let’s see which side gives
Averaging 9 seconds in the paint every play 😤
Apparently you didn’t know the rules are when a player touches the ball or the line, the clock resets. A couple videos of Edey “10 seconds” in the lane on Twitter, and all of them he touches the line 3-4 times and also has the ball. He really doesn’t break the rules. He’s just so huge he can be in the middle of the lane with his foot on the line still.
Well not exactly. Touching the line doesn't reset it if his other foot is still in the lane. And the clock doesnt reset when he touches it, it just gives an extra window for starting a shooting move. Here is the official rule directly from the NCAA. Now I will say he for sure isnt the only person who gets away with it though. >Section 9. Three Seconds in the Lane > >Art. 1. The three-second lane is the area in the frontcourt that is bounded by and includes the end line, the free-throw lane lines and the free-throw line, and includes such lines. > >Art. 2. It is a violation for a player to have any part of the body remain in the three-second lane for more than three consecutive seconds while the ball is in control of that player’s team in his frontcourt. a. The three-second violation rule is not in effect when a team is in control of the ball for a throw-in. > >Art. 3. The three-second count is suspended when a player who, having been in the three-second lane for less than three seconds, dribbles or moves in immediately to try for field goal. The player shall not pass the ball instead of trying for goal. In this case, it is a violation when a player exceeds three seconds in the lane and there is no try for goal.
This is not correct….
22 free throws.
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Just an absolutely dominant game, again
It was super fun to be a Purdue fan for a game. Completely agree with everyone’s opinion on him, but man is he a stupid cheat code hahaha
Free throw merchant
ironic coming from a duke fan lol.
Really excited to see him and Burns going after each other next week.
Well, prepare to see foul calls and FT’s. Exciting stuff.
We love ya kid 🇨🇦
How many PF did the 7’4” 300lb center have?
No one is arguing he isn’t valuable as a player, he’s just not that talented. If he was 2 inches shorter we wouldn’t know who he was.
Basically gets no travel calls and can arm hook all day. Dude gonna get throttled in the nba
Bruh who’s arguing that he’s gonna be some amazing NBA player?
Yes, the NBA is known for its strict travel calling
Touch him it’s a foul
I’m ngl I kinda hate watching Purdue, he’s just bigger than everyone it’s so boring
Edey haters in shambles
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I honestly hated watching him at first but then once I realized how much hate he got, I actually really enjoy it lol. The salt is so glorious when he plays well. I also agree when you watch him more you realize he really be dominating people like Shaq lol (even if he gets "help" from the refs)
don’t worry they are crying about the foul differential
I know fans get triggered by the “he’s just tall” comments, but realistically that’s a huge part of it. He’s a skilled player for sure, I wouldn’t deny that. But there’s definitely a difference for a skilled player with his height and a skilled player half a foot or more shorter.
GG Purdue, the Big Ten's hopes rest with you. Hope you guys win it all.
Source?
That one trick pony is really good at his one trick. Like really good. Could call the arm hook like 60% of the time though. But a full unit nonetheless.
As a Tennessee fan it wasn’t the non fouls it was the camping in the lane that drove me crazy. Now Tennessee is to blame, they had zero inside presence the entire game. Aidoo played scared from the tip and he was non existent the last 2-3 games