Purdue defeated Toledo 83-64 on Sunday, snapping a two-game losing streak. Coach Matt Painter spoke to reporters about the game, highlighting Braden Smith's 34-point performance and the team's offensive strategy.
Purdue picked up an important 83-64 win over Toledo on Sunday, snapping a two-game losing streak in the final nonconference game of the season. The Boilermakers improved to 9-4 on the season, thanks to a 34-point, 12-assist performance from Braden Smith . After the game, coach Matt Painter met with reporters to talk about the game. Here's everything he had to say Sunday night.\'It just depends on how somebody is defending you. Obviously, they were switching everything.
When people switch everything, we're trying to schematically keep the ball in Braden (Smith)'s hands as much as possible, especially with his ability to go against a five. When they switched that, we wanted him to be able to take his shot or break people down and make the right decision. And then play off of that. I thought he did a pretty good job of that. \'It all starts with how they choose to defend you. And then, you know, being able to get shots from that. We struggle to rebound the basketball, but once we were able to get defensive rebounds — because they were sending everybody — you could see we could get out in transition. But we can't get out in transition if we can't get a rebound. \'But the volume of shots, obviously we're going to put the ball in Trey (Kaufman-Renn)'s hands and in Braden's hands and be able to run off of that. We run some stuff for Fletch(er Loyer) to get looks. People are going to try to take those away and not let him get those clean looks from three. But then our ability to make decisions and pass the basketball is going to give those guys shots. I thought all of them got shots. I thought Cam (Heide) had some good looks, Myles (Colvin) had some good looks. Then we missed some others, but we obviously made enough.': 'You can see the way they defended us, we put the ball in his hands a lot. He's going to get a lot of chances to get assists, he's going to get a lot of opportunities to shoot the basketbal
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