Scrimmages

[RUBigJ]

Are there any more scrimmages scheduled?

 

[BKIn118]

Tomorrow against Yale

 

[ouchmyknee]

Tomorrow against Yale

Open to the public?

 

[Local Shill]

Open to the public?

No.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

If we get good reports after this one the GRF negativity machine will be in full meltdown mode.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Way off topic...when i was checking out Yale I realized Princeton returns everyone from their team last year. Princeton, Yale and Harvard are all very good.

 

[_dave_]

Open to the public?

It's only Yale...

 

[MadRU]

Good that they will scrimmage against two different styles of play also.

 

[Russ Wood]

It's only Yale...

Yale was 23-7 last year. Upset Baylor in the NCAA Tournament and only lost to Duke by 7 in the next round.

If they return everyone, as someone posted, they should be a pretty good scrimmage opponent.

 

[_dave_]

Yale was 23-7 last year. Upset Baylor in the NCAA Tournament and only lost to Duke by 7 in the next round.

If they return everyone, as someone posted, they should be a pretty good scrimmage opponent.

"It's only Yale" is a Rutgers inside-joke. This was a quote by one of Bannon's players before the team lost to, you guessed it, Yale in the 2002 NIT.

 

[BKIn118]

Closed...very closed

 

[playorbplayd]

Yale was 23-7 last year. Upset Baylor in the NCAA Tournament and only lost to Duke by 7 in the next round.

If they return everyone, as someone posted, they should be a pretty good scrimmage opponent.

Yale lost 5 seniors from last years team. The big ones are Justin Sears, Brandon Sherrod and Nick Victor.

Sears was their best player last season, Makai Mason is their best returning player this season.

Albany beat Yale by 34 last year without Justin Sears who was injured for them.

Yale was great on the offensive boards last year, mainly thanks to the guys who are gone. (Sears was 36th in the nation at OR%...plus he's a Jersey kid from Plainfield so we should all like him)

 

[ColonelRutgers]

"It's only Yale" is a Rutgers inside-joke. This was a quote by one of Bannon's players before the team lost to, you guessed it, Yale in the 2002 NIT.

Bannon was canned in 2001.

 

[RUonBrain]

Closed...very closed

Will u b there?

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Sears was a local player. Plainfield?

Good for him getting a Yale education.

 

[shields]

Wasn't it Jerome Coleman who made the dumb comment.

 

[Rutgers81]

Heard that they scrimmage URI? Any truth to that BK?

 

[RutgHoops]

Wasn't it Jerome Coleman who made the dumb comment.

Think you are correct. First year under Gary I believe.

 

[_dave_]

Didn't remember which player said it. Obviously, I also forgot who was the coach that year. lol

 

[scotti314]

I thought it was Mike Sherrod that made the its only Yale comment.

 

[MadRU]

Hopefully we will get some good tidbits from today's scrimmage.

 

[NewJerseyHawk]

Yale is very good this year...

 

[_dave_]

According to an old Scout article, Rashod Kent made the statement.

 

[MadRU]

According to an old Scout article, Rashod Kent made the statement.

That's who I thought said it

 

[NeverOddOrEven33]

hoops hipster ‏@hoopshipster1 13h13 hours ago
Sources say that Yale might be good again. Ask Rutgers.

 

[Mr_Twister]

Yale will find out early how good they are when they visit Virginia on November 20.

 

[RRRRUUUU]

 

[NewJerseyHawk]

Yale is very talented and is going to give a lot of teams problems that don't have dominate perimeter defenders, which is an emphasis for RU to improve this year....

 

[RU-ROCS]

Wasn't it Jerome Coleman who made the dumb comment.

Dumb comment for sure, but I would LOVE to have a kid with Coleman's three points shot on the current roster! He electrified the RAC with his deep 3's.

 

[RU-ROCS]

So it looks like our offensive strategy might be - shoot, miss and then go get it on the offensive glass.

 

[RRRRUUUU]

So it looks like our offensive strategy might be - shoot, miss and then go get it on the offensive glass.

haha yea, more misses means more opportunities for offensive rebounds... so we got em right where we want them

 

[RUJMM78]

I remember watching the Purdue game last year where it seemed they were missing shots on purpose to set a record for offensive rebounds against Rutgers.This year with more height Rutgers should be in a better position to rebound both offensively and defensively.Rutgers problem with 3 point shooting has been a ongoing problem where the roster was lacking in that skillset.

 

[ScarletKid2008]

Not being able to shoot the 3 is a killer to half court offense. The defense will pack it in, we won't get drives to the basket, and it becomes very difficult to score.

 

[biazza38]

Not being able to shoot the 3 is a killer to half court offense. The defense will pack it in, we won't get drives to the basket, and it becomes very difficult to score.

This is what scares me.

 

[seels2662]

Not being able to shoot the 3 is a killer to half court offense. The defense will pack it in, we won't get drives to the basket, and it becomes very difficult to score.

Luckily for us we are scoring alot of transition points.

Our three point shooting will be the difference of us being an NCAA team and struggling to get into the NIT. But this was no secret. We will not be a great three point shooting team. But we will be bigger and faster than most teams and that will account for winning as many games as we lose.

 

[SJScarlet]

Here is the stat sheet. Mike Williams only played 9 minutes, which we know will not be the case in real games (especially if Nigel Johnson doesn't shoot better than 2-10).

 

[RRRRUUUU]

Holy crap that is depressing. 1-16 from 3pt land. I believe Mike Williams was the worst 3pt shooter on the team last year so I don't see how that helps. He was also 0-3.

 

[Jim_from_RU]

People need to temper their expectations.

 

[RRRRUUUU]

Another stat that stands out - Gettys had 4 fouls in 13 mins otherwise he probably gets more time since he started.

 

[RRRRUUUU]

People need to temper their expectations.

I am one of those people. Before seeing this stat sheet, I was thinking the blowouts were over and we'd be competing / close in almost all of the games. This shows that while we've added bodies to the roster, we haven't added any shooters.