Buchanan is very athletic. A polished basketball player not so much.
Basketball Minnesota shoots the lights out in dominant win over Rutgers
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Four straight trips down the floor with four passes inside to Ogbole. The dude is capable of missing a dunk or fumbling any pass out of bounds at anytime, no need to try and make him a focal point of the offense.
The only people on this team that are worth keeping for next year are Francis, Mark, Powers, and Nuwili. A veteran and some youngsters that hopefully are hungry to win. The rest can stick around if they want to play for free or close to free and there is space for them. Not even sold on Grant or Davis any longer.
No strategy and no build off the confidence the last 2 games should have provided. 2 steps forward and one big jump back. Fine a road loss to Minny. A crap show? ugh. Now Lino Mark looking like our best player...WTF.
Our ball movement has been better this half, attacking the zone. Just can’t force it like Buchanan has done, into turnovers. I’d rather see him pull up for jumpers in the paint.
I think I'd add Zrno to that list. He's come on as the season has gone on. Not as a starter though.
Hopefully the money is truly there to grab 3-4 bonafide starters from the portal
Pikiell again outcoached. Minnesota is a mash unit and their coach is running circles around Pikiell and team.
No shame in losing at Minnesota, but we were not even competitive against a 6 man team?!?!?! That seems pretty unacceptable.
I haven’t seen Minnesota before, but they seem to play with a high basketball IQ. On the Rutgers side other than Francis I’m not sure who we can say that about.
I've gone back and forth on Zrno. Figure not all the Frosh will stay but if you want to give him 9th or later bench player money on hopes he develops that would be fine.
How long til we know who we’re retaining, who we’re bringing in, and if there’s any hope of a winning season next year? This is just unwatchable.
Give Medved some $$$ and he will have the Minnesota program cookin
Pikes...its not gonna happen
Pikes...its not gonna happen
Glad I shoveled sh*t for 3 1/2 hrs. from the barns instead of watching this. 1/2 their team is hurt and we can't even make it a game.
Should be enough to show Keli she needs to get her short list together now for a new coach in March 2027.
Probably Francis only player really worth keeping. Powers and Mark, maybe.
These Minnesota threes are wide open, Medved took Pike out back by the woodshed and gave him an old fashioned *** whoopin’ today
I see some promise in Nuwilli provided he gets better coaching.
There is shame losing by double digits at Minny when they are missing THREE starters. and a lot of it.
There’s a bunch to critique, but it needs to be acknowledged if they’re shooting the lights out from three today
Maybe some defense? If only we had a coach that was supposed to be a defensive genius. Oh wait .....
It's games like this that I want KZ to eat the contract and dump Pike.
Many shots uncontested. This late in the season from a team supposedly coached by a "defensive minded coach" is unacceptable.
This game reminds me of 4 years ago when Minnesota was short handed played essentially 5 players for 40 minutes.
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Different Minnesota coaching staff and players, but same hot shooting, Pike and Kelly Pfeiffer being one of the referees with little to no fouls called in that game as well.
Cade Tyson playing the part of Payton Willis.
Men's Basketball vs Minnesota on 01/22/22 - Box Score - Rutgers University Athletics
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Different Minnesota coaching staff and players, but same hot shooting, Pike and Kelly Pfeiffer being one of the referees with little to no fouls called in that game as well.
Cade Tyson playing the part of Payton Willis.
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Yeah, it’s insane. Many of them were reasonably well guarded too. Tyson firing balls into the rafters nothing but net.
I hope we can find a way to keep Mark because kid has some real talent.