Basketball GAME THREAD: Rutgers Hoops vs. Michigan State

[bac2therac]

Jacob the only one to bother to show up tonight

 

[BillyC80]

Need to pass more and dribble less.

 

[tfio]

Thank you Young

 

[biazza38]

YOUNG always comes to play. Everyone else needs to WAKE UP

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

Our entire offense is hoping Young can make a steal.

 

[rtabachk]

Jacob Young keeping it a game.... May I remind everyone we are 0-6 on FTs

 

[ScarletteK80]

a small sign of life.

 

[MLBash93]

Ok now if someone can come help young out

 

[bac2therac]

Can Myles post up and go strong to the basket.

no

 

[anon_0k9zlfz6lz9oy]

This is the worst offense we’ve played in four years and we’re two baskets down...

Izzo is GREAT coach. He knows all he has to do is not let us run and make us play in the half court.

 

[RUsojo]

JY hands down our best player tonight

JY hands down our best player*

 

[PiscatawayMike]

Jacob is playing like there are two of him on the floor

 

[KingOfTheEast]

Jake Young came to play...nobody else did

Why isn't Myles getting the ball on the block? He towers over that shrimp!

 

[Rutgers25]

MSU has been disciplined with not collapsing when Young drives. They are fine with letting him try to finish at the basket rather than collapsing and letting our kick out game get going

 

[RUby RED]

Well we look like utter sh*t and are somehow only down 4, I’ll take that as a positive

 

[Sweet Pea's Corner]

Caleb has trouble dribbling at this point.

 

[newell138]

We need more cock nose

 

[bac2therac]

Need to pass more and dribble less.

the dribbling tonight is worse than a bunch of 3rd graders..got to move the ball around

 

[JerseyShoreKnight]

Everyone’s overlooking how bad Geo’s two fouls are hurting the team right now. Caleb cannot keep the team in sync the same way Geo does.

 

[ColonelRutgers]

JY hands down our best player tonight

He's already taken 11 shots and the half isn't over. Needs to create for others. Young taking 25 shots is not going to win this game.

 

[Shell21]

Somehow we are only down 4. You can see how bad we are in the half court when teams pack the paint . We can’t get out in transition at all today

 

[MV9000]

At this point you’d think we’re down 15. Idk how were within striking distance.

offense looks like ****. Thank god for JY

 

[jersey07080]

MSU has played really good D, but that is amplified by stagnant offense and ball movement.

 

[Scarlet Ibis]

Too much hype, maybe. Settle it down, do it.

 

[bac2therac]

12 turnovers for Sparty is the only reason we are still in it

looks like we are at midcourt when we take shots and have abandoned any desire to rebound tonight....21-13

 

[BillyC80]

Izzo has to be worried, only up 4 when RU is playing it’s worst half of the year.

 

[RUJMM78]

The Rutgers offense is totally inept.Its playground basketball but with Michigan State making so many turnovers Rutgers is still only 4 points behind.

 

[BOCA93]

How are they only down 4?

 

[BigEastPhil]

Where’s Geo? Give him the ball and settle down the team. Just set Jacob up.

 

[RUsince52]

Young is the only guy that can associate the ball and the basket and what to do. So out of synch that MSU is actually keeping us in the game for everyone else. They score occasionally.

 

[FrankZ_RU93]

Missed FTs just get on my nerves so bad.

 

[RU848789]

21-13 rebounds for MSU
12 TOs for MSU vs. 4 for us
0-6 FTs and 0-5 from three for us
Amazing we're in this

 

[80RU]

MSU has been disciplined with not collapsing when Young drives. They are fine with letting him try to finish at the basket rather than collapsing and letting our kick out game get going

Good scouting – – uncontested three years have been going in and contested shots in the lane have not.

 

[bac2therac]

this is where bad Mathis has hurt us tonight, with Geo out someone has to step up in the last minutes of the half

 

[brookdale-soda]

It had a dream once that I needed to run but my legs wouldn't work. This game fes like that.

 

[bac2therac]

great D there

 

[RUsojo]

Izzo is GREAT coach. He knows all he has to do is not let us run and make us play in the half court.

Yeah was thinking about this before the game and wondering to myself if the reason we don’t beat them is because typically they’re athletic enough to stifle our transition and we’ve never had a half court threat against them.

But, I then proceeded to take RU on the Moneyline lol

We still don’t have a good halfcourt offense. But for me the reasons we’ve been so much better offensively this year for me are:

1) Jacob Young playing more minutes, and usually (not early tonight) dominating the ball when in half court

2)Not passing on open 3s early in the shot clock

3) emphasizing transition offense

 

[mildone_rivals]

Young is battling. The rest of the team is playing soft and tentative. High as they are playing, we should be going on backdoor cuts constantly. But we’re just watching the ball.

 

[koleszar]

OH come on 0-7, fvcking Pike these guys should shoot FT's for four hours after practice.

 

[rtabachk]

Good lord.... 0-7