: BTN
: 9:00pm ET
: Welsh-Ryan Arena
: Northwestern -6.5pts
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Basketball Rutgers snaps skid at Northwestern behind red-hot shooting without Harper
- Thread starter Richie O
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: BTN: 9:00pm ET: Welsh-Ryan Arena: Northwestern -6.5pts
He’s not gonna play for a few weeks. I’d be shocked if we see him before mid-February.
From an optics perspective it probably helps that he doesn’t play, we weren’t winning with him, at least as we keep losing we can point to Dylan not playing.
From an optics perspective it probably helps that he doesn’t play, we weren’t winning with him, at least as we keep losing we can point to Dylan not playing.
I honestly feel like he's been basically our since Columbia. Even when he's played he's been severely diminished.
Another super-tough one w/out Dylan. It's something of a longshot but doable. There's tremendous parity in the conference.
Without knowing much about the matchups, I'd open with Lathan, Ace, DG, Jordan, and Jeremiah. I think we're very vulnerable to press, so, though he's about the last person I'd like to see on the floor, this may mean an extended stretch of JMike. In addition to pressing us, I'd go at Lathan who can guard pretty well (his defensive weaknesses are not covering his man in the post) and can score so must be covered. Get him in trouble and we play without a five--Zach or Dylan.
Keys to winning are pretty much what they always are, for all teams: minimize TOs; take open shots if there--sometimes we force things into the lane; someone, preferrably two someone's get hot. I'd probably put Jordan on Martinelli (crafty, and imo would quickle get DG in foul trouble). Typically, given being down two starters, defensively I'd likely try to give them only one way to beat us (in short, if NW is gonna win take away layups and midrange or take away 3s) but give them ONE way only. Difficulty is that if we deny threes and force them to drive our three rim protectors are vulnerable frosh.
Don't lose contact, limit turnovers, make shots, get the better half of luck in final three mins.
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Without knowing much about the matchups, I'd open with Lathan, Ace, DG, Jordan, and Jeremiah. I think we're very vulnerable to press, so, though he's about the last person I'd like to see on the floor, this may mean an extended stretch of JMike. In addition to pressing us, I'd go at Lathan who can guard pretty well (his defensive weaknesses are not covering his man in the post) and can score so must be covered. Get him in trouble and we play without a five--Zach or Dylan.
Keys to winning are pretty much what they always are, for all teams: minimize TOs; take open shots if there--sometimes we force things into the lane; someone, preferrably two someone's get hot. I'd probably put Jordan on Martinelli (crafty, and imo would quickle get DG in foul trouble). Typically, given being down two starters, defensively I'd likely try to give them only one way to beat us (in short, if NW is gonna win take away layups and midrange or take away 3s) but give them ONE way only. Difficulty is that if we deny threes and force them to drive our three rim protectors are vulnerable frosh.
Don't lose contact, limit turnovers, make shots, get the better half of luck in final three mins.
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Let him stay out until he’s 100% or close to it. Goal is to just make the big ten tourney with a healthy roster then. Then we make a run
Yep. Whether we can make a run, stranger things have happened, but I am not too optimistic. I am hoping Derkack morphs into a legit scoring option. JWill has been terrible.
Personal goal right now is to not cry every gameday
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This is just such a disaster. Beyond imagination.
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We will basically play more than half the season without a healthy Dylan no chance without him
Only at Rutgers does this level of misfortune happen. It’s uncanny.
No, the fact that the rest of the roster stinks so bad makes losing Dylan even more impactful
.500 means we go .500 rest of the season and we would definitely make the B1G tournament
I think everyone would sign up for .500 at this point
Yeah, and your good buddy the immortal Sha is 6-15, 1-9 battling DePaul for last place in the Big East.