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[QUOTE="Day2, post: 4552649, member: 5348"]
Can we allow for nuance? I mean, at all?

Just because Purdue is having success starting two freshmen, doesn’t mean every team should be doing the same. Smith and Loyer are the only true freshmen on that team who play. And they’re playing alongside the best player in the country.

We’re relying heavily on four freshmen, plus another newcomer in Hima. Copeland to a lesser extent. And Williams remains a work in progress. He wasn’t game ready when he stepped foot on campus and still isn’t, unlike Smith and Loyer.

Plus, we all know by now that the zone takes time to learn. Yes, that’s a flaw in JB’s system. Doesn’t make it any less of a valid reason for why we struggled out of the gate and are still figuring things out.

If we started the year with a lineup of Mintz, Girard, Edwards, Brown, and Swider, we’d be pretty damn good. Yes, that’s on JB for not trying to retain Swider and for the overall construction of the roster. No question.

Bottom line, we’ve had young teams (or teams that relied on young players) in the past that were like Purdue (2003 and 2014) and young teams that struggled like this one (1997, 2002, 2007). This isn’t black and white. It rarely is.
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