Feeling Good about Basketball

[Night Man]

2 yrs ago was the bottom. Losing games by 50 was not normal, and it was only partially due to a talent deficiency. Last year was just a step up in competition.

 

[RUAEPI]

And this year will be a drop in experience.

We've all been saying this will be a long process. We need the players (and we seem to be moving in the right direction) and those players need to mature and with experience will come wins.

(2 more years until we are competitive game in game out in the B1G).

 

[MADHAT1]

And this year will be a drop in experience.

We've all been saying this will be a long process. We need the players (and we seem to be moving in the right direction) and those players need to mature and with experience will come wins.

(2 more years until we are competitive game in game out in the B1G).

If Sanders at the 1 improves the ball-handling it should be a plus, in that department this year.

 

[RU-Choppin-Ohio]

Yeah, crappy team's best players are often not that good. That's how crappy happens. But what's left of the crappy team after its best players leave is even crappier. And after that you have guesswork on young players. You whole theory is based on guesswork that new players will immediately be better than Mack and Jack, etc. OK, good luck with that.

Addition by subtraction ?

Subtract a guy playing PG that was not a PG. Subtract his subpar defense.

Subtract a PF that took enough ill advised jumpshots to fill up the RAC with basketballs. Subtract his subpar defense and rebounding.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

When is signing day for the 2015 class?

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

If Jordan does this right, this time, we should struggle....caveat, unless Sanders and other are off the charts good and ready.

There is a fine line between being allowed to play through mistakes and being able to make them without consequences.

Rutgers basketball needs a culture and an identity. Even with talent this can't happen overnight.

 

[Degaz-RU]

We need look no further than our friends up the Turnpike for a recent example demonstrating that adding a star freshman (their 5-star PG) to a mix of mediocre talent does not necessarily equal immediate success. In fact, in that case, the team imploded. Not that an implosion is always the expected result, of course, but that's what happened in this example.

 

[Scarlet Shack]

I think some people are missing the point

We signed two classes....that gave us a nucleus....which is our team this year. Let's look at the pieces that return NEXT year in their class for next year

PG Sanders (So)/Johnson (Jr)
SG Williams (Jr)/Goode (Fr)
SF Laurent (So)
PF Freeman (Sr)/Foreman (Jr)
C Diallo (So)/Dooreson (Jr)

that is a good starting point nucleus...

The key is now to ADD pieces to that to upgrade where we are weakest in the nucelue....and, as I see it, we need to add SG ad SFs to this team and we just picked up a MAJOR piece in Kwe Parker

Add another piece at the SF spot...and this team is really on the move in 2016-2017. Young, but on the move

 

[knight82]

My take on losing Mack and Jack: Mack was a very good player who was asked to do too much. And his defense was sub par. As others have said, Jack hurt us more than he helped us. The turnovers, the ill advised shots. The biggest mistake Eddie could make this year is to put it all on Corey's shoulders. Let some of the others share the load and let Corey grow. Being better than last year is not asking a whole lot.