Outcoached in second half - we are damn lucky

[RUSCFORMERLYRULOU]

But I’ll take lucky over a loss.

 

[RedTeamUpstream94]

That was the most asinine out of bounds play I have ever seen in a basketball game

 

[bac2therac]

Schooled

 

[RUSCFORMERLYRULOU]

That was the most asinine out of bounds play I have ever seen in a basketball game

Mulcahy has had trouble inbounding all year. As j said - outcoached today.

 

[RUTrack94]

Came out on fire in the 2nd half … RU got some calls which was the difference.

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

If the game was a minute longer, we would have lost by a half dozen.

 

[Randal7]

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good

 

[Rutgers25]

Defense was terrible all game. Penn state was just missing a lot. They had WIDE open looks. On offense we were lethargic. Harper, Reiber and Cliff brought it on O. Geo, Caleb, Paul were terrible

 

[RedTeamUpstream94]

Mulcahy has had trouble inbounding all year. As j said - outcoached today.

All of our players were 30 feet away at start of play . The whole crowd was yelling “what the hell?!?” And then no one really ran to the ball. Was really really really weird play. Wasn’t paul’s fault - he had no one to throw to!!

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

 

[RUSCFORMERLYRULOU]

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good

Very true

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

All of our players were 30 feet away at start of play . The whole crowd was yelling “what the hell?!?” And then no one really ran to the ball. Was really really really weird play. Wasn’t paul’s fault - he had no one to throw to!!

Worst place in the world to have to inbounds the ball. Still, you need a sure fire play to at least inbounds it. There were totally overplaying…it shouldn’t have been that difficult to release someone.

 

[Randal7]

I think they drew it up for McConnell, and they spaced everybody else out to get it to him but he was covered.

 

[ru66]

please stop this ****--they f ing won---you guys really are terrible

 

[ru8081]

I hate PSU but the have a solid defensive team and make few turnovers. And they shoot foul shots

 

[Shell21]

I knew once we were scoring in the second half and there were like 8-10 Possessions in a row where penn state scored that it was going to be a game. If you can’t extend leads and get stops you’re opening yourself up to them getting hot from three and it coming down to the end.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

please stop this ****--they f ing won---you guys really are terrible

Stop what? That was some of the worst coaching I’ve ever seen in my life.

 

[Pancho1939_rivals]

You guys are nuts. The difference is we missed foul shots and dunks and penn state started making 3s. You guys throw around getting out coaches way to much.

 

[Dpgru]

We need the double bye. We just don’t play our A game against the bottom 5 teams in the league. We got lucky there at the end.

 

[Pancho1939_rivals]

Stop what? That was some of the worst coaching I’ve ever seen in my life.

What in particular was really bad?

 

[RUtrumpet92_rivals498139]

Just win, baby

 

[Pils86]

All of our players were 30 feet away at start of play . The whole crowd was yelling “what the hell?!?” And then no one really ran to the ball. Was really really really weird play. Wasn’t paul’s fault - he had no one to throw to!!

When it was set up I was wondering which players would come running back. Everyone was down the court and the defender cut the angle and left it with no where to go.

 

[billgumpper]

Out coached. I don't think so. We scored 8 pts the last 10 or so minutes of the game. We blew a 15 point lead. It's on the players not the coach. Thank God we pulled it out. I can say that when they tied the game at 55 I may have broke something.

 

[ru66]

Stop what? That was some of the worst coaching I’ve ever seen in my life.

the bitching and the stupid "expert " analysis--you guys never give it a break--I LOVE this team--mistakes made but geez ,band wagon fans even after a win-- what did you dopes really think PSU would fold--they aren't like some of you fans

 

[DirtyRU]

If you can say they outcoached us in the 2nd half, fine, I call it an adjustment because we outcoached THEM in the first half. Let's not forget that all you short-term memory fans.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

That was the most asinine out of bounds play I have ever seen in a basketball game

Look.. when the guy defending the in-bounds is allowed to stand 2 feet out of bounds.. that was not on our guys.. that was on the bald-head ref should have whistled and corrected his behavior.

But that in-bounds was troublesome because of where we called the timeout

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Worst place in the world to have to inbounds the ball. Still, you need a sure fire play to at least inbounds it. There were totally overplaying…it shouldn’t have been that difficult to release someone.

Did you guys miss how the defender at Paul was standing out of bounds early in the play?

 

[AreYouNUTS]

What in particular was really bad?

You’re right. That was phenomenal coaching. He should get a coach of the year award for that performance in the last 10 minutes. My bad!

 

[walshtrips]

Did see the game. Why did Cliff only play 19 minutes today?

 

[FIJI'83]

Pike sucked today. 1) no adjustments to stop over committing on defense which perpetually left open a PSU player at the 3 point line, 2) no time out during the PSU run to break up momentum, 3) not using your fouls prior to the 3 point shot being hit, and 4) no effective inbounds pass play. We won but barely snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

 

[NewJerseyHawk]

2 missed Cliff dunks, 2 missed Cliff FTs, a miss each by RHJ and Geo...add in 2 Turnovers around the 8 minute mark by Paul and one by Geo with 3 minutes left.

I'm assuming RU lands with 65 in a normal game and wins by 6 to 7 with a couple of FTs.

There's no great out of bounds play in that spot.....you don't want to inbound it going towards the PSU basket, so Paul made the best pass he could going towards our basket.

Onto the B1G tournament folks.....!!

 

[ClassOf02v.2]

Did see the game. Why did Cliff only play 19 minutes today?

2 fouls in the first minute of the game. Reiber game in and stepped up in a BIG way.

 

[RUTRINI_rivals]

Did the coach miss FTs and layup dunks?

 

[RUKen]

Did see the game. Why did Cliff only play 19 minutes today?

Two fouls in first minute of the game. Dumb fouls

 

[-RUFAN4LIFE-]

Did see the game. Why did Cliff only play 19 minutes today?

Foul trouble, 2 fouls less than 2 minutes into first half

 

[RedTeamUpstream94]

Look.. when the guy defending the in-bounds is allowed to stand 2 feet out of bounds.. that was not on our guys.. that was on the bald-head ref should have whistled and corrected his behavior.

But that in-bounds was troublesome because of where we called the timeout

that may have happened - couldn’t see from my angle

but pikes play gave paul no options. Why start all our players 25 feet away from paul - simply never seen anything like it

 

[Pancho1939_rivals]

You’re right. That was phenomenal coaching. He should get a coach of the year award for that performance in the last 10 minutes. My bad!

So you have nothing?

 

[fluoxetine]

Defense was terrible all game. Penn state was just missing a lot. They had WIDE open looks. On offense we were lethargic. Harper, Reiber and Cliff brought it on O. Geo, Caleb, Paul were terrible

…
What game were you watching?

 

[RUsojo]

If you can say they outcoached us in the 2nd half, fine, I call it an adjustment because we outcoached THEM in the first half. Let's not forget that all you short-term memory fans.

Not sure we outcoached them in the first half, Penn State was getting the same wide open 3s they had in the 2nd half but just started the game 1 for 16 from 3.

Overall I think it was a pretty evenly matched game that if Cliff plays normal minutes goes RUs way more often than not.

 

[fluoxetine]

What in particular was really bad?

You’re right. That was phenomenal coaching. He should get a coach of the year award for that performance in the last 10 minutes. My bad!

Wow nuts really bringing out the top tier basketball analysis on this one