Core is back.🩸🩸🩸
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Looks like we will need some high heels or lifts
Great to have them all back. Together Francis , Davis, Buchanan, Powers and Mark had 80 starts and combined for 48.8 point per game in Big Ten play which accounted for over 68% of the 71.5 points per game Rutgers scored in Big Ten play.
Will be great to have Ware back from his medical redshirt year.
Will be great to have Ware back from his medical redshirt year.
I'd be more excited if the returning core won more than 14 games last season.
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Way to sh*t on the guys who busted their asses out there for us and improved as the year went on.
A "thank you" for the effort they gave would be more appropriate. In addition, several of them became much better players as the season went on.
I realize it is too much to ask for just a little class from some of you.
A "thank you" for the effort they gave would be more appropriate. In addition, several of them became much better players as the season went on.
I realize it is too much to ask for just a little class from some of you.
Criticism for their height?? Yeah, makes a lot of sense. Bunch of losers on this board.
What’s the win loss record in those 80? Not trolling just asking. I know of our limitations in roster building, some NIL, some not. Retention can be a good thing but it’s hard to get excited about retaining players who don’t have a winning record under their belt.
The backcourt is small no doubt...but all of these guys are ballers at least. These are the players that were actually showing some promise. Jmike gets better every year. Powers and Mark will get better as well. They have brought in some big wings and a center. If they can bring in one big pg another big wing and another center that's the best looking preseason roster Rutgers has had in over 5 years...Also want to see how ware has developed, maybe he will surprise..
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I’m sure they’re all nice people. And they have improved, and I’m sure that will continue. I just can’t get that excited about a returning core that can’t win in the big ten is all. I’ll root for them. Hope they surprise, but it’s not like the core of a sweet 16 team is running it back.
Oh the pearl clutching
These are paid professionals
They can take some ribbin about being a vertically challenged backcoirt
They went 14-19 overall and 7-15 in the Big Ten, which is one less win than with Ace Dylan and I would not hesitate to say I would want them back too even though they didn’t have anything close to a winning record when they played here either.
Most of the 8 players we lost this season had some positive moments, but frankly the ones we lost not living up to their potential or being overmatched in Big Ten play was a big part of why we didn’t have a winning record. Overall, the players we kept should make it easier to have a winning record. Richie was asked how many more games would we win with the player retained and he suggested 3, which would get us to 17 wins and a winning record. Absent some surprises 3 more wins seems like a fair bet.
I hope you’re right. I just feel very fortunate last year we had a bad Penn st and Mary twice each, and played the NW and Ore OT games at home.
You’re not wrong that there were serious issues with the team that needed to be addressed, particularly the play at power forward and center. The transfer rankings suggest that those issues have been addressed. In particular, Gurdak’s highlights reminded me of Penn State’s John Harrar.
As for the returning players, Francis deserves the All Big Ten Honorable mention honors. Also standing out to me is the development of Lino Mark who started off horrendously going 0-18 from 3. After that inconceivably bad start he hit from 3 around 40% similar to his 3 point percentage in high school. His speed and reaction time reminds me of Jacob Young, except that as fast as he goes he seems much more in control. He may be a bust like Grant, but if I was going to bet on who will most likely have a breakout year, it would be him.