An Unnecessarily Exhaustive Guide To The 2010/11 NCAA Tournament, Part 1: Southwestern Region
[P]retty much all the Boilermaker's offense is dependent upon three players; E'Twaun Moore, JaJuan Johnson and Lewis Jackson.
What Moore doesnt offer in ballhandling, Jackson does. He's a midget, standing only 5'9, with decent yet not great speed. He struggles to make any kind of shot around the basket for this reason, and is also not a good jumpshooter. But he's the classic table setter, the guy who gets the ball over half court and initiates the offense, the smart defender who overcomes the lack of physical tools, the ball mover who reads the tempo and makes the right decisions without incredible point guard skills, whose presence is not fully understood until it is absent. (Then again, the main reason they missed him is because they have no backup. Johnson is not irreplacable - Purdue just don't have a replacement. Which is a different thing entirely.)
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What Moore doesnt offer in ballhandling, Jackson does. He's a midget, standing only 5'9, with decent yet not great speed. He struggles to make any kind of shot around the basket for this reason, and is also not a good jumpshooter. But he's the classic table setter, the guy who gets the ball over half court and initiates the offense, the smart defender who overcomes the lack of physical tools, the ball mover who reads the tempo and makes the right decisions without incredible point guard skills, whose presence is not fully understood until it is absent. (Then again, the main reason they missed him is because they have no backup. Johnson is not irreplacable - Purdue just don't have a replacement. Which is a different thing entirely.)
