Matt Painter Sees Silver Lining in Purdue’s Loss To Indiana Last Season
Reflecting on last year’s home loss to Indiana, which featured a 35-point game from Jalen Hood-Schifino, Purdue coach Matt Painter said, “I think we helped him get to the NBA with the way we defended him. So, that was the silver lining of that game, right?”
Matt Painter’s Boilermakers turned the tables on the Purdue-Indiana competition series Saturday night with a 79-59 triumph.
The success finished Purdue’s season clear of Indiana, which cleared the series last season. Maybe the most eminent execution of last year’s competition was Indiana’s Jalen Hood-Schifino dismantling the Boilermakers’ safeguard for 35 focuses with mid-range jumper after mid-range jumper.
Mentor Mike Woodson put the heaviness of running Indiana’s offense on Hood-Schifino’s first year recruit shoulders after senior point monitor Xavier Johnson endured what ended up being a season-finishing foot injury on Dec. 17 at Kansas. Hood-Schifino took full advantage of his chance and eventually won Huge Ten Rookie of the Year, averaging 13.5 focuses, 4.1 bounce back and 3.7 helps per game.
Cutting up Purdue for 35 focuses denoted the best round of Hood-Schifino’s first year, and it drew cross country consideration as a feature of “FOX Early evening Bands,” a public transmission bundle added on Saturday evenings starting with the 2022-23 season.
On the off chance that a misfortune at any point accompanies a positive action item, Painter proposed one after Saturday night’s down.
“Clearly they cleared us last year, despite the fact that we won the Large Ten by three games. They essentially outflanked us,” Painter said after Purdue’s 79-59 win. ” Last year, Hood-Schifino performed so well here. I think we assisted him with getting to the NBA with the manner in which we guarded him. Anyway, that was the silver lining of that game, right?”
Had Hood-Schifino not had such an explosion against No. 5 Purdue, it’s potential his draft stock could not have possibly ascended to reliable limited time offer status.
Much further, Johnson’s physical issue cleared a path for Hood-Schifino to have the ball in his grasp each belonging and form into Indiana’s go-to edge scorer. In addition, it’s possible that Hood-Schifino will play his second season in Bloomington before going to the NBA Draft. In the event that Johnson didn’t break his foot at Kansas, he would have depleted his qualification last season as opposed to getting a clinical difficulty waiver for this season. Indiana could have made a more profound NCAA Competition run last year with Johnson, as well.
It’s all theoretical, however Painter raises an intriguing idea. From the NBA’s point of view, consider Hood-Schifino’s path through his freshman year.
Hood-Schifino was not recorded in the main 60 of a 2023 NBA Mock Draft by NBA.com’s Jonathan Wasserman on Nov. 23, 2022, six games into his rookie season. He was still mysteriously gone on Wasserman’s two-round mock draft distributed on Dec. 23, 2022.
However, as Large Ten play inclined up, his trip started. Wasserman opened Hood-Schifino No. 25 in general in his false draft on Jan. 19, 2023. Yet, there was still a touch of wavering, expressing “Hood-Schifino could be playing himself into the 2023 draft.”
About a month after the fact, Hood-Schifino crawled up to No. 18 in Wasserman’s counterfeit draft on Feb. 14, noticing “Scouts are getting on to Hood-Schifino with Indiana winning and the 6’6″, 213-pound monitor creating with conspicuous ball-taking care of and passing and three-level shot-production.”
Not long after the Purdue game at Mackey Field, Wasserman’s counterfeit draft on Walk 8 had Hood-Schifino at No. 14 by and large. That’s what he composed, “Interest in Hood-Schifino had been developing for quite a long time, well before Saturday’s 35-point ejection in Indiana’s success over Purdue [on Feb. 25].”
After the lottery request was uncovered, Wasserman taunted Hood-Schifino at No. “Hood-Schifino, whose NBA fanbase gradually grew with his budding flashes of pull-up shot-making and flashy passes,” it read on May 16 in the 21st overall. Much nearer to the draft, Wasserman composed on June 21, 2023 that “Jalen Hood-Schifino is acquiring thought as high as No. Nine from the Jazz
The Los Angeles Lakers wound up drafting Hood-Schifino seventeenth generally in the 2023 NBA Draft. Be that as it may, because of wounds and the Lakers’ program development, he hasn’t assumed an immense part during his youngster season.
Hood-Schifino has showed up in 16 games for the 28-26 Lakers. In only 94 complete minutes, he has scored 27 focuses with 11 bounce back, eight helps, eight turnovers, three takes and two blocks. He’s shooting 22.2% (8-for-36) from the field, 9.1% (1-for-11) on 3-point endeavors and 62.5% (10-for-16) at the free toss line.
Although Hood-Schifino’s 35-point performance at Purdue—or any performance in a single game—did not solely determine his NBA Draft stock, it was evident that it had an impact. Maybe it guaranteed he’d be no more. It’s conceivable he actually would have turned genius with a 15-point game that evening, since he grabbed the eye of NBA groups in a few other past games.
In any case, the mix of Johnson’s physical issue and Hood-Schifino’s resulting development raises one of the most fascinating “consider the possibility that.” situations in late Indiana ball history.
