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  1. you think making the most militantly anti-psyker primarch (tied with morty, maybe) of the entire imperium become a psyker is the "most expected" way of handling him? i... truly don't know what you're talking about, lol

  2. I don't know what to tell you. It is a very common suggestion/theory that he will follow the extremely obvious Norse/viking roots of the Space Wolves to become a sort of Odin esque figure, psyker powers and all.

  3. i've seen people say he should be "odin-esque" insofar as the allfather stuff is concerned, but that isn't the same as saying he should be a wizard/psyker type that channels the vibes of GC-era magnus, imo

  4. Here is one such example, with the OP emphasizing his psyker potential being fully realized.

  5. Yeah, fair. When I look through past numbers, it's not as crazy compared to others. It's still pretty high though and it's still a pretty solid gap, even when compared to other seasons.

  6. I didn't really understand college basketball appeal until I went to UNC games as a student. I think most people who aren't completely biased against the NBA know how much lower tier a product college basketball is but the main appeal for me now is just the atmosphere that you don't really get at NBA games.

  7. Yes, for me as a Purdue fan it is far more to do with the passion than the product itself. Yes, obviously NBA players are better at basically everything. But here's the thing- I have never been to any professional sporting events, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, whatever, that comes anywhere close to the excitement and fervor when the Boilermakers go on a run in Mackey against a ranked opponent.

  8. That’s why i hate when people say there is no defense in the league, these actions are impossible to defend

  9. I think it's a two fold problem. The NBA has players who are so insanely talented that guarding them becomes more of a "make them work for it" rather than actually stopping them. That and actions like this, when combined with player skill, makes it clear that defending NBA offenses is no trivial feat. Anyone who disputes that just shouldn't be talking about professional baskrtball.

  10. he’s had a ton of success though, has made final fours as a 5 and 7 seed

  11. Since the 2000 tournament, Izzo has more Final Fours than all but 8 schools have total (not including Michigan State themselves).

  12. I'm not so sure considering Purdue was in Villanova's region. The Boilermakers gave them a really good game in Mackey earlier in the season, so there may have been a chance they could pull it off, but I have some doubts.

  13. So interestingly in NBA defense no longer wins .. some coaches are saying at this point it is difficult to defend well.. Is same trend gonna come to college basketball? Perhaps we'll find out this year

  14. I don't think so. That happens in the NBA because rule changes have been chipping away at how much defense Players can actually play, and offensive players are frequently rewarded for being the ones to initiate contact. That and the skill of NBA players is much, MUCH higher than NCAA players. Some of them are literally just too good.

  15. I love and respect painter but my prediction at the beginning of this tournament is Mark Few slaps it on the table and says he’s the best coach in the country now that coach k is selling insurance and I stand by that.

  16. Well his perspective on guarding Edey 1v1 is dumb and not a worthy strategy. You’re better off going the complete opposite direction and throwing every body you have at Edey and in the paint. Dont give up rebounds and make it miserable for the ball to go to him. The FDU strategy worked for a reason. Is it going to work every time? No. But the teams that have thrown the kitchen sink at Zach edey have been a lot more competitive and stayed within striking distance on numerous occasions. Also surrounding Zach Edey will inherently slow the game down as Purdue’s sets go through him. If they can’t get that going they’ll just waste 20 seconds passing it around the perimeter trying to find an opening to give it to Edey.

  17. Update: Completely slipped my mind that Purdue had already played Alabama LOL. Guess that settles that

  18. In your defense, it was a close game. I think the flaw with any team built in the way of great offense and average defense is simply that, at some point, shots don't always fall. How do those teams respond then when they can't get stops? That's what happened to Kentucky this year, Purdue in 2022, Duke in 2014, Missouri in 2012, etc. Each one lost in rather embarrassing fashion to a much lower seed.

  19. It’s my dream that we would add a bunch of the ACC leftovers. Reignite some old rivalries and carve out a small football conference. Feels unlikely to me though. Hope I’m wrong.

  20. I can absolutely see the Big East going after Duke, Syracuse, Louisville, and maybe one other school. Boston College? Virginia Tech?

  21. Edey does benefit from calls, and I wish some Purdue fans would accept that. But what probably leads to a lot of opposing fans issues with how he is officiated is that often enough Edey is getting fouled the shit out of before he ever gets the ball. But rather than call a foul then, the officials wait to blow the whistle when he puts a shot up through sometimes very light contact. Now he is shooting two when it should have been an inbounded basketball instead.

  22. Okay, but at least they all feel like proper characters rather than "generic Lord who somehow got a spot on the LL bench".

  23. in 2017 ucla played kentucky in the sweet 16 and im pretty sure kansas made the elite eight that year. that may have been the most recent year

  24. UConn, Marquette, Purdue, and UNC with UConn over Purdue in the championship. That's what I had and that's what I am sticking to.

  25. As much as I would love to see Purdue win it all this year, I just think the Huskies' defense would cause a lot of problems for Purdue. I don't think Klingan can stop Edey, but he is probably one of just a small handful of plyers in the country who just might be able to do a serviceable job without any help. That is something Purdue hasn't had to really deal with this year.

  26. But Edey isn't even good at recovering on defense by college standards. Purdue still gets picked apart by backdoor cuts and mid range pullups because Edey isn't good at defending those shots. He will be really terrible at defense in the NBA. He'll need to develop a deeper bag of post moves and touch around the rim if he wants to stick as a bench big who can provide offense.

  27. In Edey's defense (heh), that is by design. He certainly could play up more and defend those kinds of shots, but Purdue's coach rather players take long 2s than get to the basket or shoot a three. Edey also plays pretty conservatively in terms of contesting shots because of how important he is on offense.

  28. I think Creighton is a great matchup for Purdue for just the reasons you said. There's a lot of things you just need to have to beat Purdue. A good enough big to slow down Edey or at least make him harder to feed in the post, guards that can play good perimeter D, and the ability to play at a decently high tempo without falling apart. Creighton can do all of those, you just need decent games out of Ashworth/Schiermann and that's a giant killing team.

  29. Tempo isn't something that really bothers Purdue this season. That might be a bit of a shock considering how they often played in the Big Ten, but this team likes to get out and run when the opportunity presents itself. Smith, Jones, Loyer, and Colvin will all push the ball in transition at the first sign of an opening.

  30. The tempo isn't to bother Purdue, it's that Purdue can play pretty fast at times and you have to be able to stay comfortable with that

  31. Ah, fair enough! I do think Creighton matches up pretty well with them, but I think it really would come down to how well Kalkbrenner can guard Edey on his own. He hasn't faced anybody like him (nobody really has in college), so whether he can guard Edey 1 on 1 without fouling will be a huge key to the game. Because if he gets in foul trouble? That matchup suddenly gets much tougher for Creighton.

  32. You realize they were mocking the SEC, right...?

  33. Russ for sure for the loyalists since the white scars, salamenders, iron hands (no way ferrus is ever returning) and raven guard dont have an army, let's not talk about hawk boy and well I don't see dorn returning to the templars

  34. I kind of disagree, but only because I think it depends on when Lorgar gets reintroduced. Corax clearly has a score to settle with the Urizen, because d the last we saw of him, he was trying to hunt down Lorgar.

  35. So it seems like the big east is the only conference that is absolutely ahead of them. UNC is the only ACC team to lose a title the last 15 years right? Funny you mention the ACC “choking” but don’t mention the big ten

  36. I know the other person commented something similar, but T-Rank is referenced in that article at one point for ranking conferences in the tournament based on seed, computer rankings, expected number of wins, etc. The Big Ten from 2000-2019 was far and away the number 1 conference in terms of actual wins vs expected wins. I suspect Tom Izzo and Michigan State might have had quite a bit to do with that.

  37. Tbf the later rounds do mean more. Getting 4 teams to the Sweet 16 is incredibly impressive, but it’s really about getting to the Final 4 and winning it all.

  38. For individual teams, I would absolutely agree. But I think if you are really going to judge the strength of a conference based on a single elimination tournament, the Sweet 16 is a pretty good measurement. After that you start running into the possibility of teams eliminating others from the same conference.

  39. Impressive that Houston won with 4 players fouling out given a lack of depth was one of the storylines being repeated for the team heading into the tournament.

  40. A&M's strategy in OT just baffled me a bit. They were content to let Shead just run the clock the moment Houston got a lead, and then made some really boned headed plays on the other end. Just don't understand why they weren't pressuring him to try and maybe draw an offensive foul, and especially why they weren't going at him on the other end. With Cryer and Francis out, and then Sharp a little after that, Shead was basically the entire offense for Houston at that point.

  41. In their bracket? Maybe Illinois? Overall I think Houston would be the best match up. I think Uconn would comfortably beat Purdue.

  42. I don't think Illinois has the defense to keep up with UConn. They can light it up, and that might keep them close, but if their shots aren't falling... Well, it could go south real quick. As for the Purdue answer, I think UConn's perimeter defense would give Purdue fits. And while I don't think Clingan can stop Edey, he is probably the only one of a very small handful of players in the country who could do a good enough job that UConn can let him guard Edey 1 on 1.

  43. I don't mind the all-state one with Larry Bird. The rest have gotten painfully repetitive.

  44. Purdue couldn't hit jack or shit from 3 last year though. It's stupid how much better they got at it in one season.

  45. Last year was actually maddening with how poorly they shot from three. The year before, with many of the same guys, the team was top 10 in the country in three point percentage.

  46. Current Painter maybe. Hummel jokes all the time that watching Purdue practice now makes him feel like he played for a completely different coach with how calm he is.

  47. Have you ever done a tour there? It is like a theme park for bourbon.

  48. I have! It was fantastic, and our tour guide even paused the tour to give us a chance to go buy whatever we wanted a little before we did the tasting. Glad he did, because everything was sold out in the 30 minutes or so it took for our tasting to end.

  49. Purdue fans so jazzed for this game. I’m like “damn act like you been here before” but then I remember they really haven’t.

  50. Entitlement. But it’s fair to wonder how the ACC somehow turned into a bad league from a narrative standpoint when it’s clearly bullshit.

  51. If I were to hazard a guess (outside of ESPN being biased as hell), I would point to Duke and UNC losing legendary coaches along with Virginia seemingly falling off from the heights of their pre-COVID heights.

  52. I said this before about the Big12, they have 3 good teams this year. They are Houston, Baylor, and ISU.

  53. I'm willing to give Kansas a bit of a pass. They weren't their normal selves this year, but they were also without McCullar.

  54. Think he mostly keeps to himself outside of the articles he writes about sports, politics, and social issues.

  55. I'm actually going to disagree here, and it is largely on one condition- the planet of Warhammer Fantasy has a pretty large population of comparatively primitive people despite its dangers. Death Worlds in 40k top out at less than the population the Empire alone likely has. And then consider there is still Brettonia, Araby, Grand Cathay, Estalia, Ind, Nippon, etc.

  56. I'm pretty sure Astartes would struggle on Malus in even worse ways. Imperium humans need genetically engineered people to be able to fight monsters like deamons or orks with hand weapons, on Malus some regular schmuck recruited anywhere can do it.

  57. Okay, that was pretty awesome to see.

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