Turn out the lights, the party's over
They say that, 'All good things must end'
Let's call it a night, the party's over
Nothing more to say. This is a bad team. Pikiell has recruited poorly. His in game coaching is absolutely brutal. He did nothing NOTHING at all to change the course of this game when his team was struggling. His players made the same bushel of mistakes they made in earlier games. They cannot make a stop to save their lives. They foul everytime down. I will add as we go along but what we saw today was an indictment of Coach Pikiell, his system, his poor recruiting and his inability to even run an offense.
We can nitpick individual plays but why bother. Fact is this team is 3-3 and in the end will basically play the same game everytime. Bad teams lose, even when they should win. A 15 point lead with about 8 minutes. Sitting guys like Jones and Agee for much of the 2nd half of the 2nd half even though they provided big sparks. UMass could not stop our inside game and then we went away from it, by the time we went back to it, we were misfiring and tight. We ran shot clocks down to 2 only throw up desperation shots even the Mag made shot was under duress from the shot clock. Coach you have to help these guys out. Dont get me started on Pike allowing Caleb our worst free throw shooter to touch the ball with 36 seconds, that was criminal. In the end a bad coach allows his team to repeatedly foul on 3 pointers...6 times in 2 games, has to be at least 10 for the night. He prepared his team very little to defend the 3 and virtual no adjustment was made. Credit the Umass coach who actually coached his team to a win, great strategy drawing fouls and going a bit of zone late because Rutgers is simply so predictable in crunch time.
It does not matter, they played harder and with more effort for 30 minutes and they shot 55%, any team that lets that half play out as it did against an inferior team deserves to lose, its on both coach and players and note that Ron Harper disappeared this game when we needed him to take charge. I predicted a loss today so that part isnt surprising. The one thing this game did do was CEMENT my feelings that we are a bottom feeder this year and likely next and that Pikiell is in serious trouble with future seasons if he does not land studs in the portal. Pike will be given 2 more years after this one definitely but it could get very scary
They say that, 'All good things must end'
Let's call it a night, the party's over
Nothing more to say. This is a bad team. Pikiell has recruited poorly. His in game coaching is absolutely brutal. He did nothing NOTHING at all to change the course of this game when his team was struggling. His players made the same bushel of mistakes they made in earlier games. They cannot make a stop to save their lives. They foul everytime down. I will add as we go along but what we saw today was an indictment of Coach Pikiell, his system, his poor recruiting and his inability to even run an offense.
We can nitpick individual plays but why bother. Fact is this team is 3-3 and in the end will basically play the same game everytime. Bad teams lose, even when they should win. A 15 point lead with about 8 minutes. Sitting guys like Jones and Agee for much of the 2nd half of the 2nd half even though they provided big sparks. UMass could not stop our inside game and then we went away from it, by the time we went back to it, we were misfiring and tight. We ran shot clocks down to 2 only throw up desperation shots even the Mag made shot was under duress from the shot clock. Coach you have to help these guys out. Dont get me started on Pike allowing Caleb our worst free throw shooter to touch the ball with 36 seconds, that was criminal. In the end a bad coach allows his team to repeatedly foul on 3 pointers...6 times in 2 games, has to be at least 10 for the night. He prepared his team very little to defend the 3 and virtual no adjustment was made. Credit the Umass coach who actually coached his team to a win, great strategy drawing fouls and going a bit of zone late because Rutgers is simply so predictable in crunch time.
It does not matter, they played harder and with more effort for 30 minutes and they shot 55%, any team that lets that half play out as it did against an inferior team deserves to lose, its on both coach and players and note that Ron Harper disappeared this game when we needed him to take charge. I predicted a loss today so that part isnt surprising. The one thing this game did do was CEMENT my feelings that we are a bottom feeder this year and likely next and that Pikiell is in serious trouble with future seasons if he does not land studs in the portal. Pike will be given 2 more years after this one definitely but it could get very scary
