Couldn't be possible for me to get more hyped for tomorrow
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Couldn't be possible for me to get more hyped for tomorrow
Besides getting me very excited the one thing that pisses me off is he wrote that Seton Hall is most likely not going to open the upper stands at the Rock and that of course is because they will be way outnumbered by Rutgers fans if they do!!!
Surprised this bullet isn't getting more attention, though it could just be Jerry projecting:
Head coach Steve Pikiell doesn’t want to run an NBA-style, isolation-driven offense. He wants spacing, extra passes, ball reversals. Unlike last year, everyone in the rotation is on board with this.
Head coach Steve Pikiell doesn’t want to run an NBA-style, isolation-driven offense. He wants spacing, extra passes, ball reversals. Unlike last year, everyone in the rotation is on board with this.
Boy, wouldn't you love to see us stick it to them again this season!
I wonder if the "not on board with this" part was more about JY or Mathis. Clearly it can't be Myles.
We didn't start the year as a NBA-style, isolation-driven offense. We morphed in to it out of necessity.
This all sounds great until you think about our personnel. Jaden Jones is key here. Will he be the 1st guy that we have in the Pike era (or any era lately) who will come off a screen and catch and shoot and penalize a defender for being a half second late?
You are correct that the proof will be what happens in live action. Who is the first opponent on the schedule that you would accept as proof that we deserve this hype?
Hence why that school has earned the name Scared Hall, or South Orange Cowards, however you want to look at it.
Lehigh.
2 years ago in my prediction I said there will be 2 stretches where people would question Pike as coach and 2 stretches where he would be coach of the year.
This actually took place both last year and the year before.
There will be peaks and valleys in the season. Things need to be analyzed over series of games. The Lehigh game should start giving us clues. There are several things I will be looking for in the game tomorrow that go way beyond whether a ball goes in the hoop or not.
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Jerry is all in, predicting 22-9 record. Wow.
Side notes to others teams and conferences...
*Oklahoma St banned from postseason, Big 12 tourny and NCAAs*
SWAC adds 3 from the MEAC
Big South adds NC A&T from the MEAC
WAC adds 4 from the Southland
ASun adds 1 from Southland, 2 from OVC
Summit adds a D3 school from Minnesota, St. Thomas Tommies
St. Thomas has been 57-8 the last 3 seasons, and their 1st opponent tonight is Chicago St currently on a 28 game losing streak, last win Dec 2019.
MEAC and Southland only have 8.
*Oklahoma St banned from postseason, Big 12 tourny and NCAAs*
SWAC adds 3 from the MEAC
Big South adds NC A&T from the MEAC
WAC adds 4 from the Southland
ASun adds 1 from Southland, 2 from OVC
Summit adds a D3 school from Minnesota, St. Thomas Tommies
St. Thomas has been 57-8 the last 3 seasons, and their 1st opponent tonight is Chicago St currently on a 28 game losing streak, last win Dec 2019.
MEAC and Southland only have 8.
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best players on each local team ?
Brazilier seems to have something against Rutgers, if you follow his coverage and tweets. He loves St John’s.
My eyes about popped out of my head when I read that. Seems wildly optimistic but Jerry must have seen or know something we don't to be that high on this team
Insane to pick Geo Baker over RHJ. There is no scenario where Ron is the third best player on this team. I'm convinced he doesn't watch Rutgers play because anyone who pays attention would not have that take. Also makes his St. John's homerism obvious when he says the Johnnies will separate from Rutgers/Seton Hall as the best team in the region. It's possible it happens but that seems unlikely
My guess is he was too stupid to get into Rutgers and got rejected by them.
According to a search, the FBI probes from 2017. I guess they appealed and delayed it until this season.
Oklahoma State: NCAA decision to deny appeal, uphold Cowboys' postseason ban 'unprecedented,' system 'broken'
Oklahoma State, which had been given a postseason ban in 2020 but played under appeal, is now banned from the 2022 postseason, a decision by the NCAA that coach Mike Boynton said he was "disgusted" about.
www.espn.com
^^^ T H I S ^^^
I would have loved had Myles and JY stayed... especially Myles if this indicates that JY wanted none of this... which, by his play, I assume Mathis wanted none of it as well.
On the other hand... maybe we go to this because we don't have the right makeup to go to transition offense and we will be going to half-court O every possession? Well, in either case, when teams forced us into halfcourt O and we did not really run an offense to speak of (NBA isolation not really being a team offense in my book).. I hated that. Would be great to do both as situations dictate.. the excitement of transition and the brains and team effort of a real half-court O.