You do know that Jackson Davis is a horrendous shooter/free throw shooter.
As is Brunk.
Davis has been but had a decent stroke at the end of last year, but it's not what he's known for.
You benching all four of them?
Rewatch the end of the MSU game last year. Do you trust Damezi to recognize that Winston just destroyed Langford and had an open alley layup to win the game, only to have a streaking Smith recognize it, recover and alter his shot securing the win?
Again, we're not playing horse. It's a multi layered game. Nojel Eastern is probably the worst individual offensive player in Purdue's history...but he's a freak of a defensive player with a good handle that can post up smaller guards. He took what, something like 6 total three's last year. Why did Painter play him so much when he had Sasha who's a ten times better stand still shooter than Eastern.
You need whoever you want to bench Smith for to be able to cover for the impacts to winning that he brings. Hunter is obviously the ideal candidate. Damezi has to have ten fold improvement to get there. Right now he's only a shooter and a poor one at that.
I'm curious to how he looks as I am everyone but he's the opposite of Smith, he's so slow and unathletic that he has to bulk up and just be physically bigger and then shoot 45% from three to not be a liability.
