Basketball GAMEDAY THREAD: Rutgers Basketball versus New Haven

BillyC80 · 2026-11-06T19:34:29-0600

Sydnor, nice start to his RU career. We are deep.

bac2therac · 2026-11-06T19:36:44-0600

I can see why Yale crushed our 2nd team

BillyC80 · 2026-11-06T19:36:45-0600

Miteo can board. Needs to strengthen his grip.

RUgal · 2026-11-06T19:37:41-0600

BillyC80 said:
Miteo can board. Needs to strengthen his grip.

Yes but no need to put the ball on the ground there.

bac2therac · 2026-11-06T19:37:56-0600

Jones really is a standout to me

Simce91 · 2026-11-06T19:38:28-0600

RUgal said:
Yes but no need to put the ball on the ground there.

17 year old mistaken

bac2therac · 2026-11-06T19:39:03-0600

BillyC80 said:
Sydnor, nice start to his RU career. We are deep.

I wouldnt go that far. Jury is still out on that. New Haven is really bad

Simce91 · 2026-11-06T19:39:09-0600

bac2therac said:
I can see why Yale crushed our 2nd team

Good to see you're already in mid season form

RAC93 · 2026-11-06T19:41:13-0600

Sydnor if he can get back to full health, I am thinking Francis, Jones, Smith, Sydnor and Gurdak for a starting five, gives us size. Then Lino first man off the bench to change the pace and bring energy, Buchanan also part of a second unit. This is at least a hopeful team and a season to look forward to.

RAC93 · 2026-11-06T19:45:38-0600

9/22 from three, 41%, encouraging

Simce91 · 2026-11-06T19:46:25-0600

RAC93 said:
Sydnor if he can get back to full health, I am thinking Francis, Jones, Smith, Sydnor and Gurdak for a starting five, gives us size. Then Lino first man off the bench to change the pace and bring energy, Buchanan also part of a second unit. This is at least a hopeful team and a season to look forward to.

Syndor is going to be needed in B1G play,

Would like to see Smith/Buchanon be more physical underneath on both ends

RutgersClassof2004 · 2026-11-06T19:46:28-0600

Looks promising but it's New Haven so hopefully not Fool's Gold

RAC93 · 2026-11-06T19:49:13-0600

bac2therac said:
Jones really is a standout to me

Agreed, could be our best guy on both ends of the floor

bac2therac · 2026-11-06T19:56:23-0600

Fradkin!

BillyC80 · 2026-11-06T19:56:50-0600

bac2therac said:
I wouldnt go that far. Jury is still out on that. New Haven is really bad

It’s not elite depth but we are deep, bringing back 5 guys with B1G experience (Tariq, Lino, JMike, Powers, and Buchanan) and adding solid experience with Gurdak, Smith, Jones, and Sydnor which gets us to 9 deep. Then you add what looks like a decent young backup center in Miteo, and we will be competitive with those 10 guys (plus potentially Garavaglia as well).

RUChet · 2026-11-06T20:03:01-0600

Nice win but we learned nothing playing a garbage team. Remember how good Griffiths looked vs bad teams?

Happy we easily won but we won’t learn much until We face a really good Houston team.

Can we keep it close and threaten to win or are we blown out?

seansherm · 2026-11-06T20:09:36-0600

bac2therac said:
Jones really is a standout to me

He and JMike are part of that 2nd unit you just criticized a minute ago. These two were better than the starters tonight. Hope we Jones starting soon.

knight82 · 2026-11-06T20:12:58-0600

RUChet said:
Nice win but we learned nothing playing a garbage team. Remember how good Griffiths looked vs bad teams?

Happy we easily won but we won’t learn much until We face a really good Houston team.

Can we keep it close and threaten to win or are we blown out?

at this point I would say Houston is definitely a loss but a competitive game. Would be nice to see them step up and win two in Vegas after the Houston game. Certainly capable of beating Notre Dame in game two and then see who we get in game three

RAC93 · 2026-11-06T20:20:18-0600

seansherm said:
He and JMike are part of that 2nd unit you just criticized a minute ago. These two were better than the starters tonight. Hope we Jones starting soon.

Seems like Jones starting is inevitable, he offers more size, shooting, and defense…..it’s a no brainer. We need his size against bigger guards in the conference, Lino and Tariq together is just too small. Plus, I love Lino or Tariq, take your pick, as a spark plug off the bench. Maybe Jones will be seen as the spark plug off the bench, but he needs more minutes so I assume he’ll get more minutes if he starts.

Knight Shift · 2026-11-06T20:22:10-0600

Caliknight · 2026-11-06T20:24:15-0600

Pike used his money a lot better than football

Knight Shift · 2026-11-06T20:24:36-0600

rydegaz · 2026-11-06T20:24:40-0600

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seansherm · 2026-11-06T20:31:06-0600

RAC93 said:
Seems like Jones starting is inevitable, he offers more size, shooting, and defense…..it’s a no brainer. We need his size against bigger guards in the conference, Lino and Tariq together is just too small. Plus, I love Lino or Tariq, take your pick, as a spark plug off the bench. Maybe Jones will be seen as the spark plug off the bench, but he needs more minutes so I assume he’ll get more minutes if he starts.

Yup, been saying the same for a while. Lino off the bench as a change of pace merchant.

RUDiddy777 · 2026-11-06T20:37:18-0600

RAC93 said:
Seems like Jones starting is inevitable, he offers more size, shooting, and defense…..it’s a no brainer. We need his size against bigger guards in the conference, Lino and Tariq together is just too small. Plus, I love Lino or Tariq, take your pick, as a spark plug off the bench. Maybe Jones will be seen as the spark plug off the bench, but he needs more minutes so I assume he’ll get more minutes if he starts.

I wonder if we’ll see Riq off the bench a bit like last year.

RUDiddy777 · 2026-11-06T20:39:38-0600

Simce91 said:
I was just going to ask if anyone could tell if he was dressed

someone asked earlier so just responded rather than find the original (might have been you) - I didn’t see it until the 2nd half, but looked like his left fingers were taped together.

RUDiddy777 · 2026-11-06T20:42:27-0600

Simce91 said:
How so?

Nevermind, senior moment

I don’t begrudge Paul at all. He gave us four years. Don’t think he was meant to be the face of the program - and I think the year took a toll on him. Im sure he was content getting a bag and being anonymous with his gift year.

RUChet · 2026-11-06T20:48:15-0600

knight82 said:
at this point I would say Houston is definitely a loss but a competitive game. Would be nice to see them step up and win two in Vegas after the Houston game. Certainly capable of beating Notre Dame in game two and then see who we get in game three

2-1 and would be amazing

RUgal · 2026-11-06T20:48:33-0600

RUDiddy777 said:
I don’t begrudge Paul at all. He gave us four years. Don’t think he was meant to be the face of the program - and I think the year took a toll on him. Im sure he was content getting a bag and being anonymous with his gift year.

I agree. Many of us went to grad school elsewhere. He’s one of us.

Knight Shift · 2026-11-06T21:42:47-0600

Atlasxal · 2026-11-06T22:07:07-0600

Sweet Pea's Corner said:
I don't See Kelli in her seat. Maybe she watching Schiano.

In Madison.

RUDiddy777 · 2026-11-06T22:15:30-0600

RUgal said:
I agree. Many of us went to grad school elsewhere. He’s one of us.

I remember him giving out gift cards to all of the support staff as a thank you - he was done. That season was brutal.

PatrickRU92 · 2026-11-06T23:11:51-0600

RUDiddy777 said:
I don’t begrudge Paul at all. He gave us four years. Don’t think he was meant to be the face of the program - and I think the year took a toll on him. Im sure he was content getting a bag and being anonymous with his gift year.

didn't have to wait until mid summer to announce it though. That really hurt us.

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