He doesn't know how to take advantage of teams. Seven eligible players and no full court pressure; no double team on Willis; at the end of the game ball goes to Harper 3 times despite Baker being the hot shooter. Pikiell is at best a good assistant coach. The thing he is great at is platitudes (tons of bull sh*t).
Pikiell is the Worst
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Come on with this BS.
nobody other than baker made a shot the second half.
the team really didn’t play all that tough at all. Usual road softness
nobody other than baker made a shot the second half.
the team really didn’t play all that tough at all. Usual road softness
Yeah fire him! LOL.
Calm Down his thought was to drive to basket since they cannot foul. Harper could have done better and it did not work out.
Calm Down his thought was to drive to basket since they cannot foul. Harper could have done better and it did not work out.
looks like another user account for our favorite Nova troll NCAABallz. Dumb post.
he may be a troll = only posts after a loss to criticize
but other than the last two sentences (saying pike an assistant/ platitudes) the rest of his post is actually spot on. Even a troll can be correct once in a while
we didn’t we double Willis. Why didn’t we play with tempo (press or push the ball). We didn’t we attack on offense (and try to get them in foul trouble).
those are not stupid questions.
Those are very legit questions.
frankly it’s mind boggling to me that pike didn’t try the above. At least little (from time to time) to try to tire them out, get some fouls and/or get them out of their rhythm
our game plan (or lack thereof) played totally into Minnys hand and utterly negated the advantage that we had. Utterly negated. By not pressing/ pushing / getting in the paint (at least at times) we simply turned the game into a shooting contest (which they obviously won)
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Is it his fault we missed 2 point blank shots and 4 wide open 3s in the last few minutes?
Man - I'm handling this loss hard but the OP is straight up a dope. Go back under the rock you crawled out from.
REALLY good point
however today was when we should have used our depth! At least we had eligible players. Mag, Miller and Hyatt should have been in there for more - to press, etc. throw fresh bodies at them : were them down!!
we never took advantage of the fact that they were so short handed
we even the playing field = came down to shooting contest = we lost
Playing devils advocate……….
our bench has been real bad. We want to play inferior players because our opponent is short handed?
our success over the past month is based on shortening the rotation…..basically playing bench as little as possible.
our bench has been real bad. We want to play inferior players because our opponent is short handed?
our success over the past month is based on shortening the rotation…..basically playing bench as little as possible.
After reassesing what he said after a while he is very spot on with what he said before the ending
Did a quick search of the OP's posts. Could not find one of the 20 or so I looked at that were positie in any way.
In one he claims that he called Gruninger and advised him against hiring Littlepage. I'm sure Fred picked up the phone right away when he heard it was the OP.
In one he claims that he called Gruninger and advised him against hiring Littlepage. I'm sure Fred picked up the phone right away when he heard it was the OP.
I apologize for posting only when motivated by a terrible loss. I am consistent, however, in that I don't think that Pikiell can take us to the next level ( also stated by poster Fluoxetine yesterday in a Bac2therac thread yesterday). It is understandable that most are very happy that Pikiell has made us competitive, as compared to the last several decades. I am happy as well. It certainly is more fun to watch a team that is competitive. However, I don't believe Pikiell will get us into post season play on a regular basis, due to his lack of ability to recruit upper echelon kids. This failure will lead, at best, to 10-10 win loss records in the Big Ten. Maybe many of you are happy with that; I am not.
Now lets look at Pikiell's numbers:
W-L at Rutgers......92-83 overall
W-L in Big Ten........39-65
W-L best year.........21-11 ( W-L Big Ten 11-9 )
W-L Road Record...10-42 ( 1-6 this year )
Why would I lie about speaking with the former AD? In fact, during the Tom Young era, his assistants were happy to talk with fans; especially Joe Boylan ( a wonderful man ). Unfortunately, I was spoiled by the Tom Young term as head coach. However, the one game that drove me crazy was the NCAA loss to St. Johns. We had a good lead as the game was winding down. All of the St. Johns starters were in foul trouble. They, therefore, went into a zone defense. Instead of attacking the zone Rutgers went into a stall, took bad shots and eventually lost the game in overtime.
I don’t think this is fair to conclude yet. I don’t know whether Pike can take us to the next level. I don’t think it’s fair to point to his overall Big Ten record given the hole he had to climb out of.
He’s going to have to recruit better to get to the next level, for sure, but
(1) people are doing serious revisionist history about what the level of recruiting was that got us the 2020 and 2021 teams.
and
(2) it’s still possible he’ll be able to improve recruiting in the future.
Barring a super big name that we are never paying up for, no coach is going to come in here and start bringing in a bunch of top recruiting classes instantly. One could argue that FHJ and Rice were better recruiters on paper I suppose, but obviously pike has gotten much better results than either of those guys did and the program was in a far worse place when Pike took over than it was when FHJ or even Rice did.
Isn't it interesting that teams get hot shooting and on defense against us. Whose fault is that?
Teams get hot shooting against everyone. If you are going to try to claim that Pike is a bad defensive coach, that is truly ridiculous.
Pike cannot motivate his teams to defend consistently considering our offense is often lacking.
Fair?
Everybody that has seen Rutgers MBB play this season knows we are totally inept a zone defense . Don’t be surprised if the next teams we play go to zone as well. It just seems these guys packed it in early .No spark , no fire , unmotivated and sorry but coach Pikiell is accountable for part of this.