{"id":2180,"date":"2023-04-07T03:31:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T08:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2023-04-07T03:31:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T08:31:59","slug":"qa-with-purdues-matt-painter-first-year-education-for-loyer-smith-portal-shopping-for-another-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/qa-with-purdues-matt-painter-first-year-education-for-loyer-smith-portal-shopping-for-another-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&A with Purdue\u2019s Matt Painter: First-year education for Loyer, Smith; portal shopping for another guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON \u2013 In the second part of GoldandBlack.com\u2019s Q&A with Matt Painter, the veteran Purdue coach discusses attracting a backup guard, what\u2019s next for Fletcher Loyer <\/a><\/strong>and Braden Smith<\/a><\/strong>, and why Zach Edey <\/a><\/strong>will be motivated after winning six National Player of the Year honors if he returns to the program. \u00a0<\/p>\n

MATT PAINTER Q&A: \u201cWe need more team quickness\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Question: Are you in a holding pattern on what you\u2019ll do in the portal based on what Zach does, or is that related to the open scholarship?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Painter: <\/strong>Not with the scholarship for David Jenkins<\/a><\/strong>. It\u2019s not a holding pattern because we\u2019re being aggressive there. Yes, we are contacting big guys right now. And if Zach leaves, then we would pursue those guys. If Zach comes back, then we wouldn\u2019t, and that\u2019s what we explained to all those guys. They all understand that.<\/p>\n

Q: How will Zach handle winning all of these awards? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Painter: <\/strong>When you deal with selfless people, how they are as players is going down the same path. For him, I think he uses it as motivation in terms of working and saying, \u2018Look at what these six years have gotten me; where are we going to be six years from now?\u2019 Now you have the knowledge, you have the work ethic, you have the size, and just keep working and don\u2019t get frustrated by setbacks. Really take setbacks as times to learn and use that as motivation.<\/p>\n

Q: With Fletcher and Braden, did they get worn down as the season went on? How do you put their season in perspective, and what needs to happen moving forward for them?
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Painter: <\/strong>I think they just need the natural progression of any freshman going into a sophomore. I think everybody thinks they understand what they\u2019re walking into, especially if you\u2019ve had the experiences with other people around you. But there\u2019s nothing like that actual experience of doing it. I think they just need to keep working. They\u2019re going to have great sophomore years. But they also need some pieces around them to offset some things like I said \u2013 we need some more athleticism, we need some more quickness, and I think that really helps those guys, but I think the season wears everybody down, even sportswriters and everybody.<\/p>\n

ZACH EDEY: Sweeps National Player of the Year honors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

But the first time is so educational compared to the next time. It\u2019s like I told those guys the other day, I said when you look back on what you did as a freshman, and you see yourself in three or four years, you\u2019ll laugh. You\u2019ll just laugh because of what you\u2019re taking in and how you\u2019re handling it. You\u2019re trying to do everything in your power to be successful, but you haven\u2019t gotten that experience yet.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited because I see a lot of people around college basketball with guys that have been in their fourth, fifth, sixth year of college basketball, and they\u2019re having a lot of success with it. And we\u2019re having success \u2013 Trey Kaufman-Renn<\/a><\/strong>, Braden and Fletch as freshmen and then you have Caleb Furst<\/a><\/strong> as a sophomore. You have some guys that you can just keep building with and growing with. It\u2019s not like we\u2019re just trying to have a good season, then hopefully, three to four seasons later, we can have another good season. No, we have a good program, and we want to keep this going and we just want to be better in March and keep putting ourselves in those great positions.<\/p>\n

One of the foolish things to do is to turn everything upside down, and now you\u2019re going to lose what you\u2019ve gained. We want to enhance what we gained but also be smart enough to say like, \u2018Hey, there\u2019s an issue here when we get to the tournament with this type of a team.\u2019 \u00a0And you can\u2019t look at the making and the missing of the shots. You\u2019ve got to look at the execution. You\u2019ve got to look at the defense, and what really jumps out is getting more athleticism and quickness with that but not at the expense of the kind of values of what we\u2019ve built.<\/p>\n

Q: Is it a hard sale for a backup point guard knowing that guys get in the portal to do one thing, and that\u2019s to play. You can\u2019t offer them 35 minutes or something like that, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Painter: <\/strong>I think I\u2019ve been able to prove that, and that\u2019s what I always talk to them about is some of the scenarios we\u2019ve had here in the past five years with returning guys that got beat out by other guys. I think they can play with those guys. I think they can start, I think they can back up. I don\u2019t think you get yourself in the positions that we\u2019ve gotten ourselves, and you say, \u2018Hey, this is set.\u2019 And I think anybody who\u2019s a competitor, I think they would understand that \u2013 you just don\u2019t say this is all set. I\u2019ve always tried to be as honest as I can be with those recruits and let them know, \u2018Hey, you\u2019re going to have an opportunity to come in here and get things, but when you go into a good program, it\u2019s going to be competitive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD: Edey reflects on season, what\u2019s next<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes it\u2019s tough in the portal because so many things are being thrown at those guys, and sometimes they\u2019re not looking the way we\u2019re looking. That\u2019s why David Jenkins was huge for us because he was such a selfless guy. He was such a team guy. He helped our team when he played, and he helped our team when he didn\u2019t play, and that\u2019s what you want. You want somebody that is looking for, \u2018Hey man, I\u2019ve never had this kind of success. I\u2019ve never played for a championship. I\u2019ve never been in an NCAA tournament. I want this for me, but I also want this for us.\u2019 You want some of those shared values from those guys, but at the end of the day, you\u2019ve got to get somebody.<\/p>\n

That becomes pretty hard when there\u2019s so much competition in the spring, and the recruitment sometimes isn\u2019t \u2026 when you recruit somebody as a sophomore, junior, and a senior in high school, you build that relationship. They come in and see you four or five times. They find out about you. This is like cramming for a test. Sometimes they get bad cliff notes, and they don\u2019t figure it out, and then all of a sudden they go places, and they\u2019re like, \u2018Why didn\u2019t I know this?\u2019 Well, it\u2019s your job to figure it out. It\u2019s our job to figure it out that we\u2019ve got to bring a good dude in here. Sure, he\u2019s got to have quickness, but he\u2019s got to be a good dude.<\/p>\n

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