Basketball RUTGERS-OHIO STATE GAME THREAD

IL Lusciato

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Oct 31, 2011
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I'm sorry, but Pike needs to realize that the absolute lack of offense also hurts the gains made by good defense.

So many games we start to get stops in D and have a chance to build a run, but the horrible offense just kills any chance of it. We need at least a TINY but of emphasis on offense at some point.
 

RUsojo

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Dec 17, 2010
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I’m sure local press didn’t travel but someone needs to ask pike to explain how Geo Paul and Young “compliment” each other on offense. Very curious to hear the BS he uses.
 

bethlehemfan

Heisman
Sep 6, 2003
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We forget fundamentals on the road. Refs don’t help but when you play lousy you don’t get the whistle.
 

MV9000

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They come out at away games playing scared and passive. ****** defense to boot. You don’t win that way.
 

Scarlet Knut

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Dec 28, 2003
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I really expected we'd win this game. My two keys were Myles not getting in foul trouble and would Geo be back. Both were wrong.
 
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RUDiddy777

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Something has seemed off about this team for weeks with no shows from too many major players.


That being said, havent we been down double digits in a ton of road games this year and eventually the game came down to the wire?

Geo has been way way way off. Looks like they just didn’t show up tonight or think they can always catch up in the second half...
 

RW90

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Feb 2, 2002
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Charmin Soft.

If the season ended today, I'd rather we not dance. No sense getting excited just for a first round loss.
 

bethlehemfan

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Ohio State has struggled but they’re good particularly at home. Not sure why anyone expected a win here. I was hopeful but no way I expected one here
 
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Caliknight

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Shooting. On the road you need it even more than home. It's always been our issue.

Hustle, D, rebouding...if you can't score, all those things get negatively impacted.

Pike. For the love of God. Go to Europe and get a deadly knock down shooter. If the D gets hurt a little bit, so be it. It's the next step truly compete on the road.
 

RUsojo

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Dec 17, 2010
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i would agree if we just didnt pull a similar crapfest for 32 minutes vs the worst team in the league...one would think they would have learned

this game was lost in the first 5-7 minutes

Playing the same combinations.
 

ColonelRutgers

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Dec 15, 2003
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I'm sorry, but Pike needs to realize that the absolute lack of offense also hurts the gains made by good defense.

So many games we start to get stops in D and have a chance to build a run, but the horrible offense just kills any chance of it. We need at least a TINY but of emphasis on offense at some point.
It's called recruiting.
 
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PatrickRU92

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Aug 1, 2001
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i would agree if we just didnt pull a similar crapfest for 32 minutes vs the worst team in the league...one would think they would have learned

this game was lost in the first 5-7 minutes

but we're just not showing the effort tonight which is REALLY odd for this team. I mean if we played a little defense and boarded we still might have lost but not like this. we aren't going to sleepwalk like this again (I hope)

also doesn't help that OSU has run their offense perfectly tonight.

this is one of those games that you just forget about and move on.
 
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JudgeSmails56

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Expected outcome.. we aren’t going to beat anyone decent on the road since we have no one that can shoot.