From: peppler@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Randy Peppler)
Subject: Purdue Hoop Scoop
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:52:38 GMT

[The first of Carl Gritter's excellent reports this season]

Glenn Robinson is for real folks.  Not that you didn't know already
but let's just say 33 points, 17 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 blocked shots,
and 2 steals in 28 minutes ain't too shabby for your first time in a
college uniform.  I would not consider him polished but his game has
no weakness.  He is a go to guy.  He just finds a way to put the ball
in the bucket.  Defensively he is not yet a force, but he will be.

As expected Purdue looked pretty sloppy in the first half (12
turnovers) but looked decidedly better in the second half (especially
on offense).  There were a couple of offensive sequences where they
really passed the ball around well and ended up with a layup (I mean
they really moved well).  They first thing that grabs you about this
team is their quickness.  No Purdue team in the last 10 years has been
this quick as a team.  After a while, compared to last year, this team
will play better defense (especially post defense), be much better on
the break, be a much better inside scoring team, be a much better
rebounding team, and have much better depth.  With the loss of Woody
Austin, this team will have some trouble shooting from the outside,
but they won't be a bad shooting team either.

Other impressive debuts: Porter Roberts was also excellent.  He made
some freshman mistakes but not many (5 assists, no turnovers, 2
steals).  He looks like he has good leadership qualities and might be
a great one.  Herb Dove is already an excellent defender (3 steals and
he shut down Ricky Hall after he scored 9 straight points in the
second half on 3 treys).  Justin Jennings made some great plays (a
follow up slam off a Robinson miss was the hightlight of the night)
but also looked most like a freshman out there.  Kenny Williams held
his own against Mel McCants and company.  He has a nice touch from in
close.

I don't know if it was just one good game or something but Cornelius
McNary looked good!  If he continues to play like this, he WILL
contribute.  He really hustled and just looked more confident and
agressive out there.  I hope it continues because I know you'll have
to see it to believe it.  Cuonzo Martin and Linc Darner looked solid.
Stanback didn't do anything great but did alright.  Matt Waddell did
not look good.  Numerous bad passes and his shot was not falling.
Keady was pretty patient out there yesterday but Waddell did enough
wrong to get benched in lieu of Roberts at one point.

Pretty small crowd at Mackey.  Only 5000 or so.  There was some
confusion whether the game would be on TV (it wasn't) and it sounded
in the Sunday J&C that it was sold out, so that may have contributed.
Very few John Purdue types and also not that many students.

[Tix were only $3 as well.  As usual, another great promotion job by
that great Purdue staff]

Next up:  Purdue vs Russia on Sunday.  This is on the season ticket
package so its sold out.  Its on TV (Raycom).

Purdue notes:

1.  The Purdue women have 3 recruits committed and possible a 4th on
the way.  They again should have a very good recruiting class.  Signed
are 6 foot center Leslie Johnson of Fort Wayne Northrup (chose Purdue
over Lousiana Tech), 5'7" point guard Nicki Taggart of Platteville,
WI.,  and 6'3" center Danielle McCulley of Gary West.  All 3 are top
recruits.  6'2" forward Jannon Roland from Urbana, OH. will decide
between Purdue and Kansas shortly.  The women play Czeckoslovakia on
Wednesday.

2.  In Keady's postgame comments he said that Brandon Brantley has
decided to redshirt.

3.  Main WLFI man Larry Clisby had an angioplasty (sp?) process done
last weekend and thus was not at his usual radio spot for the
MSU-Purdue football game.

4.  The other WLFI sportscaster Paul Stauder has taken a job as a
sports reporter for channel 13 (NBC) in Indianapolis.

Carl

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