Cj Cox

And then once the defense starts to collapse on that, which started to happen, I tweeted something out last night, whenever Daniel Jacobson continues to get buckets around the rim.

which is that as this defense continues to sell on Jacobson, as they continue to focus on him down low, one of these guys get open, whether that's a CJ, Jakari, Omer, whoever the case may be.

One of those guys are going to get open for three, and Daniel Jacobson is going to be able to find them.

That is where Daniel Jacobson is at his best, is when he's able to get the ball down low.

I'm going to give him a C minus for his performance in this one.

We'll see how things kind of play out with him the rest of the way.

CJ was good as well.

11 points, four of 11 had three rebounds to assist, did have two turnovers, but made up for it.

Um, Boiler Fanatic says they need to create more shot opportunities on their own when the offensive set isn't giving them ones.

Cox has been doing a good job of that tonight.

Almost no one else is, although Wes just did.

I think this chat was thrown in while the game was happening.

Maybe it was 30.

I don't know.

CJ Cox plays 36.

Pierce plays 29.

We were all kind of wondering who's going to be the best player on Purdue.

C.J. Cox was probably the most popular pick.

Then maybe Caden Pierce or Daniel Jacobson.

C.J. Cox was okay in this one.

Caden Pierce was fine, didn't have very high usage.

Daniel Jacobson looked good, 22 points, 9 of 11 from the field, looked more mobile, looked fine out there.

He had one of the best games of his career, 22 points and seven rebounds, and I think if Purdue's going to be anything at all this year, Jacobson's gonna have to do this a lot.

It can't just be CJ Cox all the time.

He struggled a bit in this one, and I think it was obviously just a back and forth defensive battle.

And this is a great win for Mark Few and the boys.

But Purdue lost a lot.

I like C.J. Cox a lot.

I think he's going to pick up the slack, step in for Braden Smith and be the guy, but he's not Braden Smith.

And they need to develop what that chemistry is going to be like when you've

This year, for the first time in a long time, We don't have that guy.

You can potentially point at C.J. Cox, who I expect to be a great guard for Purdue this year.

Is that lone returning starter on this team? You could look at freshman, redshirt freshman Antoine West, who last year Braden Smith called the best player in practice as a redshirt.

So I think really the story of this season for Purdue, and especially the story going into opening night, is there are a ton of question marks.

And we were talking about how the only team that has returning players in the starting lineup, like multiple ones, like Gonzaga has two, Arizona has two, UCLA has three.

And I was like, well, Purdue actually has, probably has more than every other team.

They just don't have any returning starters except for C.J. Cox.

Like,

And I was like, well, Purdue actually probably has more than every other team.

They just don't have any returning starters except for C.J. Cox.

That's such a unique thing is like, you're bringing back a lot of players who have been in the system who have been performing behind the scenes like West and even guys like, you know, like Meyer and Daniel Jacobson who we've seen, but we haven't seen them in a featured role necessarily.

And so that kind of makes for a lot of intrigue.