“It lets you get up on little guards better, and it lets me see the floor better,’’ he says. Once he got to college, he never thought once about ditching the move. Pickett is genuinely amused at Underwood’s dismay, and says he’s been playing that way for as long as he can remember. “Booty ball,’’ he called it derisively, crying foul on Pickett’s very fair use of backing down guards from way out on the perimeter. After losing to the Nittany Lions for the third time, Brad Underwood doubled down on his criticism of Pickett’s style. ![]() Earlier this year when Purdue prepped for a regular-season matchup against the Nittany Lions in Philadelphia, Matt Painter spent the bulk of his scout talking about Pickett, warning his players what would happen if they got crossed up in a screen, and playing clip after clip of a player he called “maybe the best in our league, if it wasn’t for our guy (Zach Edey).’’ There’s no record of anyone matching Pickett’s feat. The record books only include assists for the last 37 years. Jalen Pickett already has more than 2,000 points, 800 assists and 700 rebounds.
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