4-15 is terrible. He’s getting good looks he needs to make them. Good 3 at then end but before that he was 3-14 which was part of the reason we were in jeopardy of losing. It happens but he needs to be more consistent.
Anemic offense…
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He’s a freshman and he’s adjusting. He will get better. He’s gonna be inconsistent but I agree with your comment and am loving that his d and rebounding is getting better. That can be controlled. The other comes and goes particularly for a freshman.
When the game slows down for bim, is when he will rise. Will happen by letting him play
Funny…One guy who Hawk was so high on being a clear upgrade was Fernandes. Push the ball, get to the basket, faster play…blah blah blah. Diarhea of the mouth for months while trying to make Cam/Paul look like losers. Now in this thread he wants to lessen Noah’s minutes, and we haven’t even hit conference play. Let that sink in. I’d take Paul or Cam over him in a heartbeat, as would 99/100 people on this board. If anyone tries to defend Fernands’ horrible play in an effort to prop him above Paul/Cam, you are just a stone cold moron with a clear agenda. Hawk has been 100% wrong on anything and everything he’s been spouting so far, but preaches on and on. Does he really believe himself?
Right he will be fine as long as he keeps belief in his self and puts in the work every day. He has the raw attributes to be elite..
Pretty much nailed it. We NEVER run backdoor screens for layups in basically whole Pike era. Our entry passing to the post is middle school level
If you are scouting our team, your message would be to stay in front of Simpson, don’t let him get to the basket, and let him shoot all the midrange jumpers he wants since he hits so few of them.
You are another one who can't read.
The post was that the backcourt would be better this year than last year. Are you saying Davis is not part of the equation.....??? LMAO
And for the 100th time, there is a basketball roster being changed for beyond this season....which is the ENTIRE part of changing how we play.
The recruiting wins dictate the change....the recruits want to play faster. The recruits are coming on board. They want to see a system that shows the ability to improvise and play with freedom.
Or did you not see Dylan Harper's recruiting information where he clearly stated this exact item??
Maybe it's me, but find the highlights of the RAC last night.....try and keep up.....
Anemic offense? What offense? You have to have an offenses to be anemic. Right now RU has none!
Been watching RU basketball since the mid '60s. I'm not a Pike basher. I like Pike, but what I saw today was one team that looked fairly well coached (at least on the offensive side) and one team that did not. In the many years that Pike has been coach at RU, I don't think I've ever seen a real offense with set plays or a basic philosophy of offensive movement with a purpose. Sure, I see a "motion offense", but really it looks like 5 guys moving around without any real objective. And this is from a coach who played for Jim Calhoun. We also have Brandon Knight on the staff who was an All Big East point guard. It's hard to understand that with the pedigree of this coaching staff, the offense looks so disorganized. It's obvious against a zone defense, our guys don't know how to attack it. I don't have a problem with the poor shooting. What I have a problem with, is watching an offense that is dysfunctional and disorganized. The team lacks confidence that worsens over time and I see a coaching staff that has a philosophy of expecting the teams talent to be good enough to win games without solid direction.
This. We should be trying to make the tourney and get a bye or two in the Big Ten. That is now the minimum expectation every year.
I’d be more patient if I felt like the team was giving its all…but there’s an effort problem, something we haven’t had with Pike. And you can tell neither he nor Knight are happy about it by watching them during the games. Everyone looks lost out there.
With modern college basketball, the portal can either make or break you. It helped programs like UConn and SJU, and it really hurt RU. This is especially true considering that CS and PM left at the 11th hour and NF has played below expectations thus far.
Pikes an excellent coach. Fans not so much. People don’t understand what they see.
Cam not being here is huge. And after a lot of crap guard play we've seen, you know Mulcahy would be playing 32 minutes a game. Much better than Fernandes and Simoson.
Well, it seems like he’s going to get a chance with plenty of games getting out of hand starting next week.
The harsh reality is that this was going to be a difficult game when Stonehill played a zone defense.Rutgers looked totally unprepared running the same playground offense used against man to man defense.Stonehill knew Rutgers was a woeful 3 point shooting team and their objective was to stop dribble drives to the basket and passes to Cliff for dunks.In the second half Rutgers offense was basically Cliff shooting foul shots and the team shooting bricks from the 3 point line.Thankfully ,Rutgers won the game but how they won is very alarming going forward against league competition.