Caden Pierce

The five-man battle between Enzo Charvin, Daniel Jacobson, and Raleigh Burgess, none of them have been good.

Caden Pierce hasn't been good.

Antoine West was supposed to take a leap.

He hasn't been good.

everyone hasn't been good except for cj cox and we're talking about this purdue front court like they're rotating in three unknown commodities at the five and they have to play an undersized caden pierce at the four well they get a top five front court in the country in braden huff and masamba job in week one game one along with davis fogle a six seven versatile forward which is something that purdue hasn't had in a decade something who's like a proper wing-sized forward And Gonzaga just got Isan Almanza eligible.

Nathan D'Souza eligible to awesome European additions.

Xavier Lee is currently eligible through the courts.

I don't think this is a massive stock down, but I would say from where we were from, I guess the expectations going into this season over the last two years, even Obermeyer has certainly stuck down in my eyes.

Caden Pierce, three points against UConn.

This is another guy I'm going to say is stocking down.

Defensively and rebounding the ball, I think that he has done a good job, but Caden Pierce has to be more involved on the offensive side, and he has to get to the rim more often.

I think you look at some of the three-point concerns, which we've talked about endlessly throughout exhibition season here on the show, about a lack of attention to detail, getting to the rim, shooting shots that aren't necessarily high-efficient looks from outside the perimeter.

A lot of that can be solved by getting Cade Pierce the ball on cuts, getting him the ball, running to the rim, and ultimately just letting him get – And I think there have been times, and maybe this isn't all on Cade Pierce, like when he gets past the ball, he usually makes a play off of it.

What you don't expect from C.J. Cox is he got seven rebounds in this game.

He was actually the leading rebounder for Purdue, tied with Caden Pierce, who also grabbed seven.

So the two of them are the leading rebounders for the Boilermakers.

But C.J. Cox, like I said, the one that stands out the most.

Obviously, Gonzaga saw him on Saturday.

Caden Pierce at Purdue.

Gonzaga will see him on Monday.

David Punch at Texas.

I think that I'm just going to place in a very specific spot with a very specific intent.

And I think Caden Pierce is that obviously.

Yeah.

And cause yeah, I would be very interested if like Peter ever went out and got three guys out of the portal.

And that's the thing is that they had kind of – they don't have many seniors on this team.

The one senior they have is Caden Pierce who did transfer – from Princeton.

And so they have Takari Harris and CJ Cox are juniors who have been significant contributors in the program for three years, but it's still kind of like, are those guys ready to step up and be like the faces of the program? I'm not sure yet.

Right.

Wish other guys would have helped him out a little bit more, but he's going to get a B plus for me in terms of his impact throughout the course of these exhibitions.

Now we got Caden Pierce, who in 23 minutes had just three points down.

did have seven rebounds.

And I think that's kind of what you have to take with Cade Pierce is that he's going to do a good job on the boards, which is impressive for a guy of his height.