Basketball LIVE GAME THREAD: Rutgers vs. St. Bonaventure

[miketd1]

We are a tweener team.

Not big enough to play bully ball in our division, but can’t shoot well enough to play small ball.

 

[RUJMM78]

Bonnies won the game without their best player which is a telling sign of how bad Rutgers played .Baker and Harper were silent for most of the game which is a real problem on a woeful shooting team.

 

[bac2therac]

Okay, what the **** pike. U call timeout with 1 minute left, 4 total team fouls and you dont tell the guys to foul immediately if they dont get a steal? 25 seconds runs off the clock? **** man. Come on. Your coaching philosophy cant just be “play hard, play hard!!!” ****ing guy reminding me of kevin willard tonight, clueless

this was a low point for Pike here in his tenure

 

[RU MAN]

Gee guys, I'm so glad you got that $100 million dollar facility. You couldn't even beat a third rate team like the Bonnies. What does that make us? I was hoping for above .500 and maybe, maybe, maybe an NIT bid this season. Forget it. If we can't beat a team like this by 15 points and actually lose by six, we once again have another clueless coach who doesn't seem to understand that we are SICK OF LOSING AROUND HERE!!!!

 

[kcg88]

I am so with you here. You can see immediately this year and once again this is the type of game that Eugene would have been able to gather this team late. Yeboah is nowhwere near what Gene gave all around

Why didn't Eugene gather this team against Fordham? Or Stony Brook or Hartford?

Face it, it's a Pikiell problem.

 

[Anon1751594821]

inexcusable to let 27 seconds go to give 3 fouls...wtf pike

Awful job. You need to know time and score! We should have been playing hard defense and tried to steal in the last minute. We needed to foul right away to have a chance.

Best of Luck,
Groz

 

[anon_0k9zlfz6lz9oy]

I am so with you here. You can see immediately this year and once again this is the type of game that Eugene would have been able to gather this team late. Yeboah is nowhwere near what Gene gave all around

Maybe. Eugene couldve done well against a **** team with no size like the bonnies playing the 5. Were better off in big ten play with yeboah imo

 

[ScarletDave]

I gotta say, that was some Ash-level game coaching IQ tonight. Stunk up the joint but still should have won but what the heck was that endgame. Bad bad omen for the rest of this season. Doesn’t feel like a WTF loss, just a loss

 

[bac2therac]

Bonnies won the game without their best player which is a telling sign of how bad Rutgers played .Baker and Harper were silent for most of the game which is a real problem on a woeful shooting team.

2 freshmen scored 39 points and hit 7-10 from 3

so while posters wait for our team to suddenly start playing better in Big 10 play..let that stat sink in

 

[RUonBrain]

its inexcusable that Pike has been here for 4 years without recruiting a 3 point shooter...and none coming next year either

It’s like Ash and his recruiting of QBs and WRs, and OL, and DL (hey, I can keep going...)

 

[RUChoppin]

Can't be that poor from the arc/line in the first half against any Top 200 team and expect to bounce back in the second half.

 

[Shell21]

Bottom line , despite our shooting woes , we gave up 80 frieken points to st boniea . 80

 

[RUTrack94]

game over....bad loss..no spin, no excuse, bad job all around..players and coaching staff

this program needs to stop with hype, press clippings, expectations and talk because they are nothing right now. A team that scraped by two bad teams and then got thumped by a 0-3 team led by 2 NJ/NY freshmen

its same old rutgers

First game away from the RAC ...
#AlwaysAnExcuse

 

[PiscatawayMike]

6-24 on 3 pointers
11-24 for SBU

thats 15 points if you are math challenged

Story of the game.

 

[RU MAN]

6-24 on 3 pointers
11-24 for SBU

thats 15 points if you are math challenged

And I can guarantee you some of those players that hit their shots consistently, were NEVER on our illustrious coach's radar. No, he wan't super tall guys who can't freakin' shoot!

 

[G- RUnit]

No spin on this no book reading.

A bad bad loss.

Awful shooting
Awful defense

Inexcusable. Johnson and McConell foul shooting. That was it.

Geo bad. Harper and Mathis non existent again. Young was great or awful.

Poorly coached game.

Nothing good from this game.

 

[RUTrack94]

2 freshmen scored 39 points and hit 7-10 from 3

so while posters wait for our team to suddenly start playing better in Big 10 play..let that stat sink in

But our team is young ...
#AlwaysAnExcuse

 

[ColonelRutgers]

Another lost season. Not enjoying the build. What are we building toward? This year is a waste already. (Sorry I do not care about the NIT at all) Unless we pull a rabbit out of the hat in spring recruiting there are no difference makers coming in that will give us a chance to be an NCAA team next year. Bad team. No shooters. No inside play. No defense now either evidently. Fed up.

 

[bac2therac]

Maybe. Eugene couldve done well against a **** team with no size like the bonnies playing the 5. Were better off in big ten play with yeboah imo

fact is RU should have dunked over them all night but instead of going inside early we chucked up 10 3s in a flash. Big 10 play wont matter if this team comes in league play with 4 oOC losses

 

[Hamilton's Cannon]

Disaster. We lost to an 0-3 team. And special shout out - thanks for sending us to Toronto for a trap game, Eugene!

 

[BillyC80]

After all is said and done, on a night when they shot well and we shot poorly, we still could have won this game at the free throw line.

 

[RUBlackout]

Jesus - we really do just eat our own

we had a terrible game..it happens just ask Kentucky

while it’s not acceptable let’s see how this team bounces back.

 

[bac2therac]

Another lost season. Not enjoying the build. What are we building toward? This year is a waste already. (Sorry I do not care about the NIT at all) Unless we pull a rabbit out of the hat in spring recruiting there are no difference makers coming in that will give us a chance to be an NCAA team next year. Bad team. No shooters. No inside play. No defense now either evidently. Fed up.

I cannot argue with this

 

[bac2therac]

Jesus - we really do just eat our own

we had a terrible game..it happens just ask Kentucky

while it’s not acceptable let’s see how this team bounces back.

RU has played poorly now 3 of 4 games..to me thats who we are

 

[sct1111]

Jesus - we really do just eat our own

we had a terrible game..it happens just ask Kentucky

while it’s not acceptable let’s see how this team bounces back.

Dude when 3/4 of our games have been bad, maybe it's not an off night. Maybe we're just bad.

 

[RU MAN]

According to KenPom we came in rated 69, while the Bonnies were rated 166. Let that sink in.

 

[knightfan2000]

Missing Jay Young, I think

 

[RU Mike73]

Horrible loss to BAD Bonaventure team. Very bad look for this team and bodes bad for rest of season.

 

[anon_0k9zlfz6lz9oy]

Also, ron harper has been totally irrelevant early on. Very disappointing

 

[ColonelRutgers]

fact is RU should have dunked over them all night but instead of going inside early we chucked up 10 3s in a flash. Big 10 play wont matter if this team comes in league play with 4 oOC losses

Inside to who? Myles is too passive and Carter is no great shakes. Teams are just way too comfortable against us. Pathetic.

 

[kcg88]

Jesus - we really do just eat our own

we had a terrible game..it happens just ask Kentucky

while it’s not acceptable let’s see how this team bounces back.

3/4 of our games have been awful this year

 

[RUonBrain]

Also, ron harper has been totally irrelevant early on. Very disappointing

Guess he’s not going pro after this season...

 

[Scangg]

I've been in England and just got back in the country and caught a good portion of the game on my phone. Terrible coaching from Pike in so many ways. Ugh. Team looks soft and not playing with intensity. Pike needs to figure out the minutes and player combinations. The end of the game was a coaching disaster. Why weren't we pounding Myles inside? Then we take him out and press when they missed 10 out of 11 shots and leads to easy baskets. The clock management was embarrassing at the end. Lot of season left though. Can't overreact

 

[RUonBrain]

Lose by 6

Jacob Young 1-5 from line (and missed front end of 1 and 1).
2-6 from field.

 

[RU MAN]

Oh and btw, our next opponent Stephen Austin beat Drexel by 15 today.

 

[G- RUnit]

We really played poorly.
Young missing foul shots.
Foul shooting awful.
Did Mathis and Harper contribute anything?
Gio and McConell hustled but if not hitting shots...
Yeb alotta nothing too.
Just a devastating loss all the way around. Youth no excuse. The Bonnie’s are just as young.
Better recruit some shooters.
Shame Johnson played well.

 

[RUonBrain]

Didn’t see the game tonight, but as others have said, our perimeter D of the 3 point line is abysmal.

We sag so far off the shooters.

DOES

NOT

MAKE

SENSE

 

[G- RUnit]

Also, ron harper has been totally irrelevant early on. Very disappointing

Alot of you had him in the NBA. Has been hurting us.

 

[RU MAN]

Didn’t see the game tonight, but as others have said, our perimeter D of the 3 point line is abysmal.

We sag so far off the shooters.

DOES

NOT

MAKE

SENSE

You would think Pike in his fourth year would have these kids at least playing suffocating D. We can't shoot and we still can't contest from the three point line.

 

[RUforJERSEY]

Year 3 or is it 4. Where's the improvement?