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'25 Summer Shootaround : Purdue Head Coach Matt Painter enters the chat to preview the Boilermakers' season
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Gary Parish
Hey there, it's Gary Parish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports High on College Basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss Fighting Dodo birds. Lee Black. If you're watching on YouTube, you know what to do to that like button shouts to Brandon Davies. And if you haven't yet subscribed CBS Sports college basketball YouTube channel also, please do that while you're here. Let's get into it Today. We are continuing our summer Shoot around series that we're going to be doing over a span of a few weeks. As I hope you know, we've already published episodes on St. John's Houston and BYU. Now we are turning our attention to Purdue. A quick recap on last season the bolomakers. They went 24 and 12, including 13 and seven in the Big Ten, finished tied for fourth with Wisconsin and UCLA in the conference standings. They were four games back of first place Michigan State. Then they lost to Michigan in their second game in the Big Ten tournament. Then they got a four seed in the NCAA tournament, beat High Point, beat McNeese to advance to the Sweet 16, then lost to Houston 6260 to end their season was on March 28th. The top four scorers from that team are back. Top five if you include Daniel Jacobson who only appeared in two games last season. Tre Kaufman ren. He is the leading returning scorer. Braden Smith. He is the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year. Inarguably, the Bowlmakers are on paper once again national title contenders. Their coaches of course. Matt Payne are the five time Big Ten Coach of the Year and that's who's going to join me to discuss Purdue's program and team. Matt Painter. He's going to be here in just A second. But first, real quick, let's get a word from our partners.
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Gary Parish
As promised, I'm now joined by five time Big Ten coach of the year Matt Painter, Paintus gp. Can't thank you enough for being here. How's the off season been going? Or do you guys even get a proper offseason anymore?
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Matt Painter
Yeah, it's been great. It's been great. You know, we're just trying to get everybody here, get everybody healthy. We still have two guys that aren't going to start back up until the fall. And so for us, a couple visa issues which a lot of, you know, players across the country, you know, had those. We had another guy play USA Basketball, so we didn't have a full group. We've normally had a full group every Summer and so it was a little bit different, but you just, you just put in the work that you can and you know, keep trying to build, but also keep it in perspective that you know, you want to be good in March and you got to get better in the summer, but you also got to keep some things in perspective to try to peak at the right time.
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Gary Parish
Obviously you would like to have a normal and full summer with all of your players healthy and available in the country. Obviously you didn't get that. But I wonder if it's beneficial on some level that under these circumstances you do have roster continuity. And this is something that I mentioned in the setup. In a time where so many great programs often return only one or even in some cases, zero meaningful players, you are bringing back your, your top four scores and top five, if you want to count Daniel, who appeared in two games last season, you've got four fourth year seniors and you've got, you know, multiple four year seniors in your program. Trey, Braden, Fletcher being examples of that. This is not normal in this era of college basketball. What's been the biggest factor for you to be able to have year to year continuity when most pre programs aren't able to do that right now?
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Matt Painter
Yeah, well, the best thing is obviously players, but you know, having good players with experience of being together and having success is the ultimate. Like that's what you want as a coach. That's what we've been able to do here. But we also know things are cyclical and you know, things can go away from you in today's landscape pretty quick. So we were like, we're, we're fortunate to what we have, what we have, you know, returning, but just trying to get everybody that's new up to speed. The one thing it is, you don't compare yourself to other people. So even though we didn't have a complete roster, we still have it better than most, if not all in terms of like what we're putting in, how we're going about doing it. Because if you got to teach everybody, you know, you start, you know, you start from the beginning anyways, like you just do, you start over and. Because you don't want to miss any steps because it's really important. But when you have a player, coach team, that's always the best team. And I think sometimes young coaches don't understand that. So you can't, I always have, I have a saying that you can't empower fools. And we see in every line of work some fools getting empowered and so like. But you can't take players that aren't bought into your team or your system and then empower them. It just doesn't work that way. The guys that we have returning, you know, all return. They all make really good money, but they all could have made more. So I think you've got to keep both in perspective with that. But they want to win a national championship, go back to another Final Four and do it together and have extreme legacy be the all time winningest players in school history. Trey Kaufman ran. Braden Smith. Fletcher Lawyer. So that's pretty cool. Like you're mean, like some of the things that are there that they're looking at. They could have made more money with other places, but would they be staring down that same barrel, you know, and you know, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, heck tomorrow? I just think it means a lot more, you know, because ultimately, you know, how many times do you really have a team and you say, hey, man, I think this is a Final Four team. Like, you know, just don't take that for granted. We had it a couple years ago, we had it five years before that, we had it 10 years before that. But we've only been to one. You know, we've only been to one. We've probably had a crack at it probably four or five times. And now we, in a quick turnaround, we've got another crack at it right here. But it's also because we've had some guys remain loyal to us, and that's pretty cool.
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Gary Parish
You mentioned those guys want to win a national championship, not just anywhere, but at Purdue. I imagine that's true for a lot of guys at a lot of different places, but it's an unrealistic dream for most. It obviously is not for these guys. Evidence being that, and I'm not even sure if you know this, but FanDuel has updated its odds to win the 2026 NCAA tournament. And the favorites right now at +900 are the Purdue Boilermakers. Now, to be clear, I don't believe they're going to hang banners for preseason betting odds. But big picture, it does speak to the type of program you're running. Like I've mentioned before, you've won five Big Ten regular season titles, two Big Ten tournaments. You've been to a Final Four, you've coached in a national title game. I know you're not the type to get caught up in anything that I'm saying right now, but work with me here. What does it mean to you, not only to accomplish all of those things by the age of 54. But to accomplish all of those things at your alma mater and just like 90 miles from where you grew up.
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Matt Painter
Yeah, you know, it's pretty cool. It's a little surreal. You know, I get, you know, get to coach at Purdue, get to follow a legend in Gene Katie, who comes. Who's been to most of our practices at 89 this summer, which is just the coolest thing in the world, you know, to have him around. But, yeah, to be able to, you know, if we're preseason number one, we've been number one four out of the last five years. And so I think that's, you know, something our players should be proud of because we've done that collectively as a staff. We collaborate a lot, and so it's a total team effort. I think it'll probably mean more in time when you're done. Like, right now, you just, like, you're just fighting what's in front of you, right? And sometimes you can over fight some of those things and not enjoy, you know, what you're going through in the process that you're going through. So, like, trying to get those guys just to, you know, make their hard work fun and enjoy it, it should be the best year of their life. You know, it's the way I always look at it when you get to the end of your college career, like, if you're worried so much about things that are out of your control, you're just going to be miserable. And when you lose, you are miserable. Like, I think everybody understands competitive people and how it is. So, no, it's just kind of a surreal thing for us and the fact that we've been able to maintain and have some consistency, you know, at a very, very high level. But that's what our work is doing now is, like, we're getting ready for our season, but we also know we lose a bunch, and we've taken four guys out of the portal in five years. And so, like, I think we just have to be smart about our development, but also our needs and just keep a really good balance with that, but just keep trying to, like, be, you know, straightforward with everything. And I know that comes off really hokey, but, like, I'm just, you know, we're not trying to get anybody under any false pretenses, you know, just trying to be honest, like, hey, like, how do I fit in here? How do I do this? And, like, hey, man, competition, sets, rotations. I don't know what to tell you. Like, you know, I mean, I love you as a player. You're great, but I'm not going to sit here and promise you things to get you. And now you're going to upset this apple cart that we've created. And that starts with being honest with guys, but also, you know, if they beat somebody out, they beat somebody out no matter what they did before. And I think that that chemistry gets set with how we recruit and how we go about things.
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Gary Parish
I want to talk about this upcoming season's team next, but real quick, just as I was getting ready for this last night, I just sort of stumbled into and recalled. And some of our young listeners might not know this at all and. Or even recall it if they lived through it, but back in 2011, were reportedly close to maybe taking the Missouri job. I believe somebody somewhere even reported that, like, you were leaving your alma mater for Mizu. And all these years later, I just wonder, like, what do you remember about that time? And do you ever take a moment to consider, like, how different your life might be if you would have actually, like, made that move?
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Matt Painter
Yeah, I, you know, I'm. I'm glad things worked out the way it, you know, it was. And it really just started for us and had really very little to do with another school. Was just trying to improve our situation here and really have an honest, you know, accurate assessment about the landscape and how we can get to where we are right now. Like, how can we get there? And we've signed one McDonald's All American in 20 years. Like, we can still be great without having individual great guys. When they're 18, they can be great. When they're 20, they can be great. When They're 21, they can be great when they're 22, they might not be great when they're 18, but. But that's what we had to do a better job of. I. On my end, I think a lot of times coaches use it as a crutch, and they say our administration's got to do X, Y and Z or we can't move forward. When we always tell the players, like, don't worry about what you can control. You can't control. Excuse me. And so, like, well, as a coach, like, you still got to do a better job yourself. So that was, like, our challenge. My challenge to myself is to be honest and assess things accurately so we can be better whether things change or things don't change. And I think that's what we've been able to do. Our administration has made huge strides. Our staff has made huge strides, but we've also been really honest Especially myself, about the mistakes that I've made or the mistakes that we've made, however you want to frame it. And then I think that's how you see that ultimate growth. You see that growth in a player when he understands things and he has shortcomings and he. Now he takes off because he's honest with himself, when you just want to fight. Because a lot of times kids aren't fighting about winning and losing. Kids are fighting about roles, about shooting, about minutes, about time. And it's like, well, when you put that emphasis there, you know, you're really. You know, you're lowering the boom in terms of saying, what about winning? Like, I always get a transfer. I'm like, how long can I talk to this guy before he brings up winning? Like, if it comes quick, like, hey, man, you guys win. You guys are always in the tournament. You guys are always competing for a Big Ten championship. That's what I want. I'm like, that's my guy. Like, right away. But if he's like, where am I playing? How are you using me? What? My minutes. And not to say those things aren't important, because they are. They just can't be number one. They just can't. I love that kid. That's like, coach, man, I've never been in the tournament. You guys have been 10 straight years. I want to go to the tournament. Like, I'm like, cool, cool. I think we can get there. You know, I think we can get there. So those. Those things about, like, when Missouri kept calling, like, that was actually good for me. The. One of the things that jumped out to me, and it was. It was personal and a hair selfish, but it was accurate. Is this the fact that, man, I could never walk back into Indiana and Assembly hall as Purdue's coach and beat him. Like, that feeling. I think anybody. Like, I think North Carolina would feel that way about Duke. Duke would feel that way about North Carolina. Louisville would feel that way about Kentucky. You know, we could go on and on, right? Anytime you have that kind of special rivalry that we have. Like, I'm like, man, I. I won't be a part of that anymore. Like, that'll be over with. I'm like, boy, I don't want that. Like, I want that because Indiana's made us better. Bobby Knight made us better. There's just no way around that. A lot of times, people don't understand. Tom Izzo's made us better. Bo Ryan's like, the great ones make you better. And sometimes you get lost in that. And, like, in the fight, and you jump over the fight and you're not looking at things and the way you should so you, like, you can get your program better, but that's. That's what great competition is. It's what a great league is. And. But no, that was. It was an interesting time. It was an interesting time right there. But I. But if you look from that moment on, I think you've seen a lot of improvements here, not just from our staff, but also in how we evaluate. But our administration has also been great. Our board, I say this all the time, and, you know, people don't like to talk about things of this nature, but we got a great president, we got a great board of trustees, we got a great ad, and anybody in the business that are at those levels that I mentioned would agree with me. And so, like, I feel like I'm, you know, fortunate to be at Purdue and be the head coach because Purdue special, but also because the people that I'm around.
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Gary Parish
Let's focus on this season's team. You've got, as I mentioned, an All American in your back court. You've got an All American in your front court. Both are seniors. Like I noted, this is not normal. How advantageous is it to start a season with an All American guard and an All American big, both of whom have loads of experience?
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Matt Painter
Yeah, it's rare, you know, it's rare for the ball to be in his hands. Got a chance to break Bobby Hurley's record for the most assists in the history of the ncaa, which just is unbelievable feat. Bobby Hurley and I are the same grade, so, you know, it's makes you feel like you're a small part of it, but also makes you feel old. So Trey Kaufman ran. Has just been fabulous for our program, and he kind of points to the thing. Everybody thinks that you got to have one route to success. You know, here's a guy that red shirted. Here's a guy that didn't play a lot his first year because of Zach Eddie. And then the next year he started with him, but actually Mason Gillis played more minutes than he did. So he's played the five and the four for us. But every year when that season ends to when we start in the summer, like, he comes back and you can see, man, there's. There's five to six weeks right there of work on his own. Not to say other guys don't do that, but, like, he really dives into it. Braden dives into it. Fletcher Lawyer dives into it. Like those guys want to be good. Like the credit for them should go to them. Like, those guys spend a lot of time in the gym. They put a lot of time in on their own. But to have that combo with those two together, you know, it's pretty special. And then with Fletcher, like the three of them together, like, Fletcher has the best, you know, three point percentage in the last two years of anybody returning to college basketball. He had the best 3 point percentage for home games last year in college basketball. Trekaufman ran had the most field goals in college basketball. That's all tied into Braden and they've all been good together. And I think that's the, that's the key. A lot of people don't realize that about all Americans. Trey was an all American third team. Braden was a consensus first team all American. But Purdue won a lot of games. Like, don't get away from that. When you look at those all American teams and you look at those top 10, 15 guys, very rarely will you see somebody on there that doesn't go the NCAA tournament, doesn't win. And that's always like selling that, you know, to your players. And to say if Purdue wins and we have a lot of success across the board, the individual stuff should take.
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Gary Parish
Care of themselves to that point. As somebody who votes on this stuff, I do not care. I genuinely don't even care what your numbers are. With few exceptions, if you're on a bad team, but if you are on a top five team, you can be averaging 12 points per game. But if you're the best player on a top five team, you're going to be an all American. Because most people who vote, myself included, we do value winning. The success has to be there. Otherwise it's just empty stats, stuff that can easily be ignored. I want to talk specifically about Braden because He was ranked 216th in the Class of 2022. He's now the reigning Big Ten Player of the year and could very reasonably be the preseason, you know, national player of the year. When did you realize he was capable of this type of college career? Was it during the recruiting process? Because if so, with all due respect, I don't know that the recruiting analyst recognized it.
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Matt Painter
Yeah, well, it was Covid to their defense. Well, we'll let him off the hook this one time. So it was Covid. So I never saw him play in person. I had a kid decommit from me and I had an assistant leave our place, Micah Shrewsbury, and go to Penn State. And a guy that had committed to us, that he recruited went to Penn State. And then it opened it up. And so we had multiple people in that area keep. Keep telling us, hey, like, this kid's for real. Like, he's really, really good. I'm just like, hey, I don't have a scholarship. When it came open, I just jumped on about five or six guys and started watching film. All of them national ranked except him. And then I finally came back to it. I just said, like, hey, like this. I either I'm getting fooled by film, I said, but this. This kid here is better than all these ranked guys. Like, this isn't. This isn't even remotely close. So I started calling people. So I started calling other high school coaches and different people and some college coaches that had seen him and, like, different people. He has a couple NBA guys that are in his community that work for the Pacers. So, like, I felt comfortable with their ability to evaluate and understand. And they had seen him a lot. They'd seen him a lot. And so that piece really jumped out. Then, right as I knew, I had a college coach who was changing jobs. I won't say his name, so I won't put him out there, but he called him a basketball savant. And that's when it registered with me. Right away. Like, I said, well, I know what it means. First of all, I said, so, like, this is Pete Maravich. Like, this is Calvin Murphy. I said, because they're basketball savants. I go, guys like that. Kyrie's a savant. I go, like, did you understand, like, the skill level? And he was like, I totally understand it. And I'm telling you, he reads angles, he plays passing lanes. He sees things before they happen. He's the best passer you're ever gonna have. He goes, just taking, just taking. And then that's when I pumped the brakes and I stopped calling anybody because I didn't want anybody to be on the same scent. I got him on a zoom, and two days later, he committed.
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Gary Parish
So, yeah, you know, a similar story I once heard about that comes from the former Wichita State coach. Greg Marshall. Said he would go to these grassroots events and he'd watch all the ranked point guards. And then there was this little unranked point guard that was just beating all of them every time. He's like, he wasn't the biggest. He wasn't the most athletic, but his team won every time. And it was Fred Van Vliet that. It was the same type of. The same type of thing. You are returning four guys who started at least 23 times last season. Which is among the reasons in the betting markets your team is favored to win the national championship. You're also adding some super interesting pieces. Among them is Oscar Clough, 611 center average 17.6 points, 12.3, 12.3 rebounds. Last season at South Dakota State. How big of an impact do you expect him to make at your program immediately?
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Matt Painter
Yeah, he's only been here with us for two weeks, you know, getting his visa and being home. So he's not in shape yet, but yet he gets every rebound in practice. So that's what we needed more than anything. We needed more physicality and we needed consistent rebounding. So we think he's going to give us exactly what we want. But he's a good player. He can score this back to the basket. He can pass the basketball. So, like, it's. It's going to be great. Him and Daniel to go along with Trey Kaufman ran. Daniel gives us shot blocking. Daniel gives us a lob threat. So they're very different in players in terms of what they bring, but I think they'll be a great one, two punch play playing off of Trey Kaufman because we're going to move Trey to the four. So, like, we're excited, man. Like, we're really excited. Like, you leave practice and, you know, as a coach, you pick out a lot of things, but you also leave practice going, like, man, we can. We can play a couple different ways. I'm a big believer in trying to have two good teams, and, like, that makes just a perfect practice. That's very rare. It's so hard to have two good teams. Like, we got two good teams in practice, and, like, you only have to have one good team, right? I mean, like, dude, it's not being greedy. It's just knowing that when you have two good teams, you know, you're just ramping up that competitive spirit. And that's what you want in practice. You want to keep having guys going at other guys to. To help, you know, make improvements.
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Gary Parish
No surprise that Braden was invited to Chris Paul's elite camp, but you got another player who got an invitation as well. That's Omer Meyer. For people who are unfamiliar, he's a 64 freshman from Israel. I've only seen video and photos, but he seems to have, like, broad shoulders, a good body, was great at the FIBA U19 World cup this summer. Average 20 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals per contest. Level with me. How good is this young man? Because everything I saw this summer was really encouraging.
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Matt Painter
I just got one practice under my belt with him. So that that's the only thing I've had live. But I've watched all the things that you watched and obviously watched before. And he played for Maccabi Tel Aviv and he played with Travion Williams, one of our former players. So that kind of like, like throws it out of whack for like what you're used to, right? You're saying like, hey, you're as an 18 year old and he didn't start for that team, but you know, he's playing at a very, very high level, you know, professionally. Then he played U19s, he played U20s. I think his biggest adjustment will just be, and this is something we talked about, we were honest about in recruiting, is he's used to having the ball in his hands all the time and he's not going to at our place in this first year. You know, he could in his second year, but in his first year. So now like coexisting, you know, with Braden, you know, being able to play, you know, with him and being able to do that and get into that adjustment, learning our system. But he's a good player. Like you said, you, you know, reeled off his dimensions. He's got a good frame to him, good athleticism, can really pass the basketball. Like if you can stick, you know, a lot of people out on the court that can shoot it and they can pass it and make decisions. You really put people in bind. So he gives us that other ball handler that we like, we really didn't have before in terms of, you know, passing and breaking people down. So, you know, we like our pieces. And you know, CJ Cox, Jakari Harris, we have a freshman named Antoine west who's really played well in practice. So like, you know, we're excited, you know, about our backcourt, excited about our front court. And so I think that makes for a good being excited about your team. Right?
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Gary Parish
It adds up and makes sense. Last thing before I get you out of here, on behalf of my hometown franchise, I'm begging you to help us out. You coach grid center Zach Eady for four years. In that span, you guys played 139 games and he appeared in 138 of them. Yeah, we, we haven't been as lucky down here so far. How did you do what you did? And once, in all seriousness, Zach gets healthy, which is right around the corner. How do you envision his NBA career unfolding? Because I know that the new coach, who was an assistant coach last season, really thinks he's going to be a big Part of everything.
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Matt Painter
Yeah, no question. I mean, like, and I talk to our guys about this all the time. Like you're just not walking in somewhere and they're going to go around you. You go around them and understand that. Well, when he was here the last two and a half, three years, it was around him. And so like now the thing that when he got pushback from a lot of people that I didn't understand, it's like, see, I don't watch a lot of the NBA during the year. I watch everything when the season's over. Right. And I love it, but it's so damn physical. Well, he's, he's physical, yes. Like when you look at it, you're like. And he engages. I love that he's protected those guys. I love. He gives that old school Maurice Lucas protection. And he's not scared. He's not scared a bit. And he's an elite rebounder. He elite effort. He's got a very good iq. You know, I just think he, he's going to grow into more of an offensive role in time. They'll, they'll learn to trust him a little bit more. And I understand it's not a post up league anymore, but there is, you know, getting into the bonus, getting to the free throw line. Once he starts to get that respect as a, as a player in the league, I think he'll get more calls because they'll start to see a pattern because those guys really don't want to, you know, battle with him. Like, they don't want to take that on all the time or he's very comfortable in doing that. But you're just going to get someone who's going to improve and get better. Like he changes ends better than you think. He's a better defensive player than you think. I think he can be an elite rebounder. I think he can score more than he's shown so far, but he's also fitting in with the main pieces there. And that's what you have to do. Like when you're in a winning, you know, organization and you have some winning pieces there, which they do. And, and now, like they've proven, the Grizzlies have proven they can evaluate like, like somebody there knows what the hell they're doing. Like when you look at their roster and even some guys that have left, but the people that they have taken and drafted and traded for and done whatever, like they've done a really, really good job. And in staying with it with Zach, they were quiet about it. Like they didn't not quiet. They didn't, like, they didn't, they didn't say anything to anybody. The agents didn't know. Nobody knew. Like, they didn't call us. They didn't come to our practice. They didn't speak to us. Like, they're doing their vetting and doing their work and doing it, and it's great. Like, there's nothing against that, right? As long as you get the right dudes, like, you know, that's, that's the key. And he's the right one and he's just going to keep getting better and the right scenario, he can be an all Star. I don't know when that is, but in the right scenario, just because his competition at the position that, you know, you see through the years, like, you know, he needs somebody to be the best player. Two best players, three best players in the NBA with that size, that'll really bring things back. Like, you get someone like Shaq, you get RV To Sabonis. If you get great players in the NBA of that size, people have to have people to deal with them that could, that could only help him. I don't know who those people are, but, like, that's, that's a little bit of how the change has happened, obviously through analytics and playing five out and doing different things. But I, I, I think he's going to be great. And I, I, you saw there at the end when he had some of those monster rebound games, he can, he can consistently do that. I know that. And whatever you want him to do, like, you just got to talk him through it. Like he's cool, like he just wants to win. And he's, he's very, very, for a guy that has the awards he has, like, he's, he's really humble from a basketball standpoint. Like, he's a passer. He's unselfish. He just doesn't have the, that a lot of the rest of us have. I mean, he wasn't, you know, he didn't get heavily recruited, didn't start basketball to his sophomore year. So he's not, you know, he just doesn't care. He really doesn't. He just wants to win. And that's a great quality to have.
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Gary Parish
That's terrific. Insight, pain. I can't thank you enough for spending time with me on this morning. Congrats, sincerely, on everything you've already accomplished. I'm confident the best is still yet to come. Enjoy the rest of your summer, and I'm going to see you again real soon.
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Matt Painter
All right, man. Thanks. Gary.
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Gary Parish
Big thanks to Matt Painter from Purdue for hanging out and special shouts to Chris Foreman, Purdue Top shelf Sid for for setting that up for us. Our next episode in the summer Shoot around series that's going to be on UConn. It's going to be me and Rob Doster from the field of 68. He's going to tell us why he thinks Dan Hurley's Huskies have a real chance to win a third national title in a four year span. It is going to be me and Rob Doster on UConn. Up next. Hopefully you'll check that out. Shouts to Devin Downey. Shouts to Chester, S.C. shouts to Terry Teagle. The legend Huck Larnell. Thank you guys once again for watching listening to the Ion College Basketball podcast. If you're not subscribed, please go subscribe anywhere you subscribe to podcasts, Apple, Spotify. There's more of us than there are of them. That should be reflected in the comments. So do that and we're going to talk to you again real soon. Till then, take this time. You can be anything this time.
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Matt Painter
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Matt Painter
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Matt Painter
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