Basketball GAMEDAY THREAD: Rutgers Basketball @ USC

[RUDiddy777]

Shoot me in the ******* head. Please. End it.

 

[ScarletteK80]

SIGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Fat Koko]

Glad it was close at the end. Was the most boring basketball game I'd ever watched until the last minute.

 

[BigEastPhil]

Tariq had no idea of the time left !

 

[fatsam98]

Omg. All that effort for THAT.

What was Francis doing. That's just brutal

 

[bethlehemfan]

USC coach seems like such a douche

 

[dark_check]

But at least we lost close

 

[RUDivision]

Won the second half

 

[bethlehemfan]

Omg. All that effort for THAT.

What was Francis doing. That's just brutal

No awareness

 

[RU Mike73]

What in the world are we doing at the end?

 

[RUnotentertained]

MAYBE IF WE HAD A TIMEOUT REMAINING INSTEAD OF TAKING A RANDOM ONE AFTER WE SCORE at the 6-7 min mark !!!!!!?????

COACH IS A MORON

 

[CranfordKnight]

Omg. All that effort for THAT.

What was Francis doing. That's just brutal

If he picks his head up Zrno is wide open for a 3 down court.

 

[tm_nj]

pass the ball TF. Don’t try to do everything yourself. Zrno was open for a three pointer attempt

 

[ScarletteK80]

and, another bout of depression sets in.

 

[bethlehemfan]

Glad it was close at the end. Was the most boring basketball game I'd ever watched until the last minute.

It was really awful

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

 

[RU Mike73]

Won the second half

All that matters.

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

Just start Francis from now on

but he shouldn't pretend to be the PG

 

[fatsam98]

No awareness

To be fair Pikiell was the closest to him and wasn't as demonstrative as he should have been.

Ughhhh. I really thought this was our Minnesota game there

 

[BigEastPhil]

Have a feeling I know what USC will be practicing at the next few practices

 

[KnightTerrors]

They’re not in that game without Francis but good lord what was that?!

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

I know SC is a FT shooting machine but terrible discrepancy: SC 22-30 FT, RU 9-12 FT. Refs swallowed their whistles for SC.

 

[DHajekRC1984]

WTF was Francis doing lolly gagging up the court? With less than 6 secs left you have to sprint.

Laughing and smiling during the TO. He is a great value but you need 100% focus 100% of the time and this is the end game crap you always get at Rutgers. Play hard and get close and then do something stupid. What another shame to a 2nd opportunity to make headlines.

 

[PiscatawayMike]

USC best team in the country in games decided by 3 points or less

 

[bac2therac]

Have a feeling I know what USC will be practicing at the next few practices

17 turnovers...literally tried to hand RU the game

 

[RUJMM78]

The objective clearly isn't to win games but rather to lose close games and give a false impression that Rutgers will be even better next season with most of the same players.

 

[bethlehemfan]

To be fair Pikiell was the closest to him and wasn't as demonstrative as he should have been.

Ughhhh. I really thought this was our Minnesota game there

In the moment that’s the players imo. Some have some don’t.

 

[Sweet Pea's Corner]

I don't know what would have been the biggest steal. RU winning or the steal at the RAC.

 

[bethlehemfan]

The objective clearly isn't to win games but rather to lose close games and give a false impression that Rutgers will be even better next season with most of the same players.

This is pretty dumb. The objective is to lose close games not to win? lol. Criticism is warranted but try to be a little bit logical.

 

[Bob Chaewsky_rivals]

Tariq had no idea of the time left !

Looked like he was looking toward the bench to see if Pike wanted a timeout so he took his eye off the hall. Did we have any timeouts left? I don't know.

 

[dark_check]

Is the game plan to always not start the 30 point scorer, go down big, use timeouts questionably, lose close? If so chefs kiss

 

[bac2therac]

17 point game with 4 and a half left. RU thoroughly dominated yet somehow goes on 18-4 run to the end the game with a chance to tie. Wow

 

[PiscatawayMike]

I would have liked to see Francis pass the ball at the end. With that said, it was a good defensive play. There was still 2 or 3 seconds left when the steal was made... plenty of time to get off a shot if Francis got by the defender.

 

[Bob Chaewsky_rivals]

This is pretty dumb. The objective is to lose close games not to win? lol. Criticism is warranted but try to be a little bit logical.

Pretty sure that was meant to be a joke.

 

[BigEastPhil]

Looked like he was looking toward the bench to see if Pike wanted a timeout so he took his eye off the hall. Did we have any timeouts left? I don't know.

We had no timeouts

 

[dark_check]

17 point game with 4 and a half left. RU thoroughly dominated yet somehow goes on 18-4 run to the end the game with a chance to tie. Wow

The question is why does a team that has the ability to Surge close late like that over and over always dig big road holes

 

[bethlehemfan]

Pretty sure that was meant to be a joke.

Haha probably so. I’ll take the l there.

 

[Bob Chaewsky_rivals]

17 point game with 4 and a half left. RU thoroughly dominated yet somehow goes on 18-4 run to the end the game with a chance to tie. Wow

Most every coach knows that if you get the ball to the middle of the court vs. the press you'll break it every time. I guess Musselman's father never told him that.

 

[PiscatawayMike]

The question is why does a team that has the ability to Surge close late like that over and over always dig big road holes

Hmmm... could it be because Francis is sitting on the bench?

 

[RUDiddy777]

This was the basketball version of Laviano spiking it on 4th down against MSU in 2015 to end the game.

The pain will never end, will it?