GAME 26 OREGON: Death Spiral

[bac2therac]

Unrecoverable

On the heels of a listless gutless peformance at the RAC vs an undermanned Iowa, Rutgers follows it up by waving the white flag before the midway point in the 2nd half at Oregon. A second consecutive game where the game announcers called out the Rutgers focus, seriousness and effort. A terrible indictment for these players but for the coaching staff as well. A second straight no show from the so called vaunted NBA stars who have looked INCREDIBLY ORDINARY of late if they can even stay on the floor. Go ahead and cash out because there is nothing for them here as if getting Rutgers to the NCAA tournament was more than a sidegoal to why they were here. 9-27 fg from the 2 stars...omg are you kidding me...that is so embarrassing for everyone involved in this.

I was wrong a couple of games when I said this team was starting to become likable.....no I should not have been fooled. LEAST LIKABLE TEAM I HAVE FOLLOWED EVER AT RUTGERS....and there have been some atrocious teams with bad atttitudes. None ever had this much talent leave a worse mark on the program than when they came in. The warning signs were there all along. It was easy to try and avoid them early but the issues with this team,coaches, lineup and recruitiment were beyond anyones belief

A sad ending to any relevant Pikiell era which was such a great ride up and now such a bitter pratfall off the stage into an abyss full of derision and a laughter

 

[Plum Street]

Unrecoverable

On the heels of a listless gutless peformance at the RAC vs an undermanned Iowa, Rutgers follows it up by waving the white flag before the midway point in the 2nd half at Oregon. A second consecutive game where the game announcers called out the Rutgers focus, seriousness and effort. A terrible indictment for these players but for the coaching staff as well. A second straight no show from the so called vaunted NBA stars who have looked INCREDIBLY ORDINARY of late if they can even stay on the floor. Go ahead and cash out because there is nothing for them here as if getting Rutgers to the NCAA tournament was more than a sidegoal to why they were here. 9-27 fg from the 2 stars...omg are you kidding me...that is so embarrassing for everyone involved in this.

I was wrong a couple of games when I said this team was starting to become likable.....no I should not have been fooled. LEAST LIKABLE TEAM I HAVE FOLLOWED EVER AT RUTGERS....and there have been some atrocious teams with bad atttitudes. None ever had this much talent leave a worse mark on the program than when they came in. The warning signs were there all along. It was easy to try and avoid them early but the issues with this team,coaches, lineup and recruitiment were beyond anyones belief

A sad ending to the Pikiell era which was such a great ride up and now such a bitter pratfall off the stage into an abyss

Tough season

 

[S_Janowski]

This team is becoming hard to watch.

I am seriously questioning the 2 + hours I am spending watching these games, let alone the 4 + hour commitment to go to any remaining home games.

Embarrassing stuff. Absolutely no pride.

And you have to start (but not end) at the top when pointing blame.

 

[jakeknight]

Boys have obviously mailed it in, never would have thought that could happen

 

[Wagram97]

Seems like just yesterday my son and I were planning on where we may need to travel to see the NCAA games. Or traveling to the BTT. Money was no object, was going to hit the road and see some tourney games.

Hey, thanks for saving me some serious cash.

 

[Scangg]

This season crushed my soul. A part of me has died. Unimaginable how bad this has become

 

[dark_check]

Tough season

Tough last three

 

[billgumpper]

Unrecoverable

On the heels of a listless gutless peformance at the RAC vs an undermanned Iowa, Rutgers follows it up by waving the white flag before the midway point in the 2nd half at Oregon. A second consecutive game where the game announcers called out the Rutgers focus, seriousness and effort. A terrible indictment for these players but for the coaching staff as well. A second straight no show from the so called vaunted NBA stars who have looked INCREDIBLY ORDINARY of late if they can even stay on the floor. Go ahead and cash out because there is nothing for them here as if getting Rutgers to the NCAA tournament was more than a sidegoal to why they were here. 9-27 fg from the 2 stars...omg are you kidding me...that is so embarrassing for everyone involved in this.

I was wrong a couple of games when I said this team was starting to become likable.....no I should not have been fooled. LEAST LIKABLE TEAM I HAVE FOLLOWED EVER AT RUTGERS....and there have been some atrocious teams with bad atttitudes. None ever had this much talent leave a worse mark on the program than when they came in. The warning signs were there all along. It was easy to try and avoid them early but the issues with this team,coaches, lineup and recruitiment were beyond anyones belief

A sad ending to any relevant Pikiell era which was such a great ride up and now such a bitter pratfall off the stage into an abyss full of derision and a laughter

The 2 one and dones have checked out, especially on defense. They are not going to risk injury for a losing team.

 

[RUSCFORMERLYRULOU]

Unrecoverable

On the heels of a listless gutless peformance at the RAC vs an undermanned Iowa, Rutgers follows it up by waving the white flag before the midway point in the 2nd half at Oregon. A second consecutive game where the game announcers called out the Rutgers focus, seriousness and effort. A terrible indictment for these players but for the coaching staff as well. A second straight no show from the so called vaunted NBA stars who have looked INCREDIBLY ORDINARY of late if they can even stay on the floor. Go ahead and cash out because there is nothing for them here as if getting Rutgers to the NCAA tournament was more than a sidegoal to why they were here. 9-27 fg from the 2 stars...omg are you kidding me...that is so embarrassing for everyone involved in this.

I was wrong a couple of games when I said this team was starting to become likable.....no I should not have been fooled. LEAST LIKABLE TEAM I HAVE FOLLOWED EVER AT RUTGERS....and there have been some atrocious teams with bad atttitudes. None ever had this much talent leave a worse mark on the program than when they came in. The warning signs were there all along. It was easy to try and avoid them early but the issues with this team,coaches, lineup and recruitiment were beyond anyones belief

A sad ending to any relevant Pikiell era which was such a great ride up and now such a bitter pratfall off the stage into an abyss full of derision and a laughter

Pike to BAC- “these are great kids from great families.”

 

[MCKnight]

Confidence is gone, Ace and Dylan don’t recover well from adversity, losing, or missing shots… immaturity in these young kids, as expected. Can’t win in college with Freshman and poor coaching

 

[RUfromNJ]

Just embarrassing. No other Rutgers season has come close in any sport, given the hype/expectations. We deserve all we get.

 

[Plum Street]

Just embarrassing. No other Rutgers season has come close in any sport, given the hype/expectations. We deserve all we get.

It’s just amazing.

 

[bac2therac]

Pike to BAC- “these are great kids from great families.”

Pike can go stick it

 

[bac2therac]

Confidence is gone, Ace and Dylan don’t recover well from adversity, losing, or missing shots… immaturity in these young kids, as expected. Can’t win in college with Freshman and poor coaching

yet other freshmen across the country are flourishing

 

[jakeknight]

You can’t coach people that won’t play hard, what a disappointment. We have been “soft”from day one, thought it was a lack of cohesion, but really lack of effort and toughness

 

[RUChoppin]

Honestly, don't even know if I'll go to the last couple of games.

 

[RUtrumpet92_rivals498139]

I was unable to watch the game for personal reasons.

Five assists on 24 FG tells me enough. That's not team basketball at all.

Thanks for saving my time the rest of the season if this is how we're going to play the game.

 

[SBP]

The 2 one and dones have checked out, especially on defense. They are not going to risk injury for a losing team.

Checked out? Are they missing on purpose??

 

[kupuna133]

This team is becoming hard to watch.

I am seriously questioning the 2 + hours I am spending watching these games, let alone the 4 + hour commitment to go to any remaining home games.

Embarrassing stuff. Absolutely no pride.

And you have to start (but not end) at the top when pointing blame.

Glad I had a conflict and was forced to record. Now I know I won’t be going back and watching after seeing this thread and specifically this post.

But I get attacked when I say there is no leadership in this team.

 

[RutgersChow]

If we were Michigan or OSU, Pike would be let go first thing in the morning, and he should be. Unfortunately, Knight, who is probably worse, is next in line. Steve Hayne would be a big improvement. Hard to believe what a crappy leader Pike is.

 

[FAT MOON]

Ace and Dylan look like they are on absolute fumes out there...

Never seen guys grabbing at their shorts more than these two.

Ace two rebounds. Two?!?!?!?! Help defense absolutely non existent.

Dylan with one assist. No confidence in his outside shot and teams just sagging off him with help behind. Good luck.

 

[KK1827]

Pike to BAC- “these are great kids from great families.”

"Great kids, great families. I want to thank riot squad, students, cheerleaders, fans. We're getting close. People don't understand these kids go to class too. 3.1 team gpa."

 

[KK1827]

If we were Michigan or OSU, Pike would be let go first thing in the morning, and he should be. Unfortunately, Knight, who is probably worse, is next in line. Steve Hayne would be a big improvement..

Pike aint letting anyone go. He is loyal to a fault and stubborn as a mule.

 

[RUJMM78]

Bottom line Rutgers performance has sunk to such a level where winning any remaining game seems doubtful.When the announcers start questioning Rutgers lack of focus and effort that is a warning signal to all those involved with the basketball program.Its unacceptable and major changes are needed at the end of the season with the coaching staff and roster formation.

 

[RUSCFORMERLYRULOU]

Pike aint letting anyone go. He is loyal to a fault and stubborn as a mule.

This is where j completely disagree. Change might be forced upon him based on performance - and if he refuses he may be in breach of contract

 

[kupuna133]

This is where j completely disagree. Change might be forced upon him based on performance - and if he refuses he may be in breach of contract

Who’s going to force change?
President leaving. No AD.

New president will need to have a say on the new AD hire. We are stuck with all coaches for the next year possibly 2 depending on presidential hire.

 

[richthedentist]

Bottom line Rutgers performance has sunk to such a level where winning any remaining game seems doubtful.When the announcers start questioning Rutgers lack of focus and effort that is a warning signal to all those involved with the basketball program.Its unacceptable and major changes are needed at the end of the season with the coaching staff and roster formation.

How’s that going to happen we don’t even have an athletic director and we have many sports that coaches need to be replaced nothing is going to happen for a year continuing a death spiral of many Rutgers sports

 

[toby83]

"we just need you guys to step up with cple million more, this is just about money. Open your wallets. This is on us as fans."

- Local Retard

 

[Roy_Faulker]

Let’s see what the AD thinks…oh wait.

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

Unrecoverable

On the heels of a listless gutless peformance at the RAC vs an undermanned Iowa, Rutgers follows it up by waving the white flag before the midway point in the 2nd half at Oregon. A second consecutive game where the game announcers called out the Rutgers focus, seriousness and effort. A terrible indictment for these players but for the coaching staff as well. A second straight no show from the so called vaunted NBA stars who have looked INCREDIBLY ORDINARY of late if they can even stay on the floor. Go ahead and cash out because there is nothing for them here as if getting Rutgers to the NCAA tournament was more than a sidegoal to why they were here. 9-27 fg from the 2 stars...omg are you kidding me...that is so embarrassing for everyone involved in this.

I was wrong a couple of games when I said this team was starting to become likable.....no I should not have been fooled. LEAST LIKABLE TEAM I HAVE FOLLOWED EVER AT RUTGERS....and there have been some atrocious teams with bad atttitudes. None ever had this much talent leave a worse mark on the program than when they came in. The warning signs were there all along. It was easy to try and avoid them early but the issues with this team,coaches, lineup and recruitiment were beyond anyones belief

A sad ending to any relevant Pikiell era which was such a great ride up and now such a bitter pratfall off the stage into an abyss full of derision and a laughter

All true. I thought this team would be playing it’s best ball in March. Although, March isn’t here, it’s looking like we’ll only have one game in that month anyway. However, never did it think we would regress to this. Pike is magical in the way he makes the team get worse and NBA draft picks look extremely average the longer they are exposed to him.

To make it worse, I feel the team hears the same sound that Charlie Brown heard when his teacher spoke. He’s lost them.

 

[fatsam98]

"Great kids, great families. I want to thank riot squad, students, cheerleaders, fans. We're getting close. People don't understand these kids go to class too. 3.1 team gpa."

That's really unfair.

It's 3.2

 

[Plum Street]

That's really unfair.

It's 3.2

there were legit posts about Harper’s GPA here lol. What a joke

 

[RUJMM78]

How’s that going to happen we don’t even have an athletic director and we have many sports that coaches need to be replaced nothing is going to happen for a year continuing a death spiral of many Rutgers sports

Timing is important.The basketball program can't endure three straight losing seasons.The media and big donors have to step up and say enough already.Pikiell is a great guy who fans thought the recruitment of Bailey and Harper would make Rutgers relevant in college basketball.Sadly, the opposite happened.

 

[anon_xekqhstck0ygt]

Always been a Pike fan but how do you defend him? Reading the bk118 thread it’s amazing that people still defend a guy making nearly 4 million. What game this year has he out coached someone?

 

[RAC93]

Unrecoverable

On the heels of a listless gutless peformance at the RAC vs an undermanned Iowa, Rutgers follows it up by waving the white flag before the midway point in the 2nd half at Oregon. A second consecutive game where the game announcers called out the Rutgers focus, seriousness and effort. A terrible indictment for these players but for the coaching staff as well. A second straight no show from the so called vaunted NBA stars who have looked INCREDIBLY ORDINARY of late if they can even stay on the floor. Go ahead and cash out because there is nothing for them here as if getting Rutgers to the NCAA tournament was more than a sidegoal to why they were here. 9-27 fg from the 2 stars...omg are you kidding me...that is so embarrassing for everyone involved in this.

I was wrong a couple of games when I said this team was starting to become likable.....no I should not have been fooled. LEAST LIKABLE TEAM I HAVE FOLLOWED EVER AT RUTGERS....and there have been some atrocious teams with bad atttitudes. None ever had this much talent leave a worse mark on the program than when they came in. The warning signs were there all along. It was easy to try and avoid them early but the issues with this team,coaches, lineup and recruitiment were beyond anyones belief

A sad ending to any relevant Pikiell era which was such a great ride up and now such a bitter pratfall off the stage into an abyss full of derision and a laughter

Tonight was rough, Pike has lost the team, team has lost its fight and they have given up. Really sad when I think back that it was not that long ago Pike had us on our way to the sweet sixteen and if we had beaten Houston like we should have that day, with easy opponents ahead of for a potential elite eight or even final four run. That feels like it was 10 years ago as the program is falling from a cliff (no pun intended). Don’t think RU hoops bounces back from the abyss until we have a new head coach.

 

[fluoxetine]

Pike is losing me. It's not the defense, when a guy's last six defenses are #6, #16, #53, #6, #5, #105 I am not going to believe he suddenly forgot what he is doing there. But this team, with two top five picks, is still #64 in offense. We sold out the defense entirely, and for what? We just scored 57 points, that **** is pathetic.

But, alas, we are locked in by the contract so it doesn't particularily matter. Pike will get another shot or two to figure it out. I'm not as bearish on it as a lot of people around here are but I still wouldn't say I'm optimistic.

 

[rubjk]

yet other freshmen across the country are flourishing

Grant and Somerville are hustling and playing aggressive and full out. Ace abd Dylan could learn from them.

 

[goru7]

For the first time all year , I thought Pike didn’t even try to win this game. Decent start and no reason to sub for the sake of subbing. Dylan Grant playing well , Lathan playing well , Jeremiah playing well , Dylan better than ACE but capable of going off. The minute he subbed for no reason except wanting to play his bench. Then he puts JMike in before Acuff when Jeremiah was doing fine . He benched Grant who seemed to come out with energy and ready to play . Lathan also came to play. . When Dylan and Ace in the game together , no 2 man game or pick and roll and pick and pop , no effort to have them dictate the pace of the game. Then the defense. To allow the number of 3’s as that was the only way the game would get away from us ,and to give them up with little effort to get us on their men as if it was intentional to let them hit 3’s was insane. Almost impossible for a team to be 10-15 from three if a lick of defense is being played. Starting the offense so far from the hoop with little cutting was the easiest way to defend us and he allows it all game.
Despite the ridiculous performances of Dylan and ACE , almost impossible to play the way they have the last 2 games , Pike did nothing to try to win this game but just attempted to play everyone which is hard to believe 26 games in. No one played their hair was on fire and looked like they were going thru the motions for the last 25 minutes of Gametime. Taking cues from the coach. Big Pike fan but this was the most disappointing game plan of the year and the players played like it. Never did I think this was possible . Ever.

 

[Scarlet Shack]

Unrecoverable

On the heels of a listless gutless peformance at the RAC vs an undermanned Iowa, Rutgers follows it up by waving the white flag before the midway point in the 2nd half at Oregon. A second consecutive game where the game announcers called out the Rutgers focus, seriousness and effort. A terrible indictment for these players but for the coaching staff as well. A second straight no show from the so called vaunted NBA stars who have looked INCREDIBLY ORDINARY of late if they can even stay on the floor. Go ahead and cash out because there is nothing for them here as if getting Rutgers to the NCAA tournament was more than a sidegoal to why they were here. 9-27 fg from the 2 stars...omg are you kidding me...that is so embarrassing for everyone involved in this.

I was wrong a couple of games when I said this team was starting to become likable.....no I should not have been fooled. LEAST LIKABLE TEAM I HAVE FOLLOWED EVER AT RUTGERS....and there have been some atrocious teams with bad atttitudes. None ever had this much talent leave a worse mark on the program than when they came in. The warning signs were there all along. It was easy to try and avoid them early but the issues with this team,coaches, lineup and recruitiment were beyond anyones belief

A sad ending to any relevant Pikiell era which was such a great ride up and now such a bitter pratfall off the stage into an abyss full of derision and a laughter

Bac

Only one point of contention.

We have talent in the frosh class…and that is it.

Outside the frosh , There is not another player on the roster ther would be in the top 8 rotation of any other big ten program

Four big ten players , all frosh ….is not enough to win .

We have a massive talent issue ….thnaks to three classes that only left JMike

 

[Wagram97]

I wonder if something happened internally with the team. They looked like they were finally competing, playing well together, had the Illinois game, then that was it.