Purdue vs. Marshall player grades: New starting lineup debuts in blowout

Purdue vs. Marshall player grades: New starting lineup debuts in blowout

Purdue Boilermakers forward Camden Heide (23) high-fives Purdue Boilermakers guard Fletcher Loyer (2) Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, during the NCAA men’s basketball game against the Marshall Thundering Herd at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. (Photo by Alex Martin/Journal and Courier / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

For all you can glean from 30 competitive minutes, here goes: player grades from Purdue’s 80-45 win over Marshall in Mackey Arena.

Purdue made a major starting lineup change, opting to start the way it’s finished several games with Camden Heide and Myles Colvin in for Will Berg and Gicarri Harris. Trey Kaufman-Renn played the five.

Camden Heide: A

Heide started at the four-spot for Purdue, and the sophomore did his best Mason Gillis impression. Heide went 3-of-3 from deep to score 13 points while making the most of his sporadic opportunities.

Heide only played six minutes in the second half, but the damage was done. The athletic wing also managed to nab three rebounds while he was in.

Braden Smith: C+

He impacted the game, as always. Nine assists, three steals, including one of the most artistic possessions I’ve seen this season, when he poked the ball and converted an assist on the same play seven minutes into the second half.

But he didn’t score. Smith has been inconsistent at times this year, and it isn’t like Purdue needed a heroic performance today, but against Marshall the junior was factored out. Purdue’s offense was often clunky and relied on squeezing its sizeable post advantage dry.

Against better competition, Smith can’t go dry.

Fletcher Loyer: B-

Loyer was low-impact, finishing with 6 points on 1-of-3 shooting. Purdue allowed more points with him on the floor than off it.

The junior was missing his touch on his signature runners this game, multiple times curling around a couple of screens and freeing himself as he buzzed around the key and downhill, only to have his open,…

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