None of that will matter next year and beyond.
Good riddance to this team
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None of that will matter next year and beyond.
Pike is on a 6 year downward spiral stamped by a historic collegiate season of under 500 and missing the NCAA tournament with 2 top NBA players
Next years roster has 11 wins and possibly 4 conf win in it.
So Pike has to rebuild it his way?
Does that not mean the program is dead since it’s having to be rebuilt from the ground up?
I don’t know what it is but it’s definitely bad.
Nah the draft will just make people wonder why Rutgers was so bad when Ace and Dylan get drafted in top 5.
I gotta know…are you related to Pikiell? What is the basis for your blind optimism?
When you look at Pike do you see a great college basketball coach? Do you see a guy worthy of being compensated as a top 25 coach in the nation?
Is he in your eyes beyond reproach like Wright, Coach K or Izzo?
This is probably the most disappointing season since Quincy Douby's sophomore year in 2004-05, when Rutgers finished 10-19. I don't know if it was Covid hurt recruiting, NIL hurt recruiting, assistant doing a piss poor job, combination of all of it between 2021-2023. JMike is the only player left in those last 3 classes led to this inconsistent year of very little cohesive play and chemistry on the floor. Literally, 12 strangers on the floor with very little success of finding a consistent rotations of players
Half the people of this board were convinced Dylan and Ace would shut it down 2 months ago. Don't mistake bad play for lack of effort. Too many freshman and transfers that didn’t fit. They never gelled but they also never gave up.
Why would anyone in the portal want to play for this ******* idiot of a coach?
You will only get D3 bums who think they're Shawn Kemp
You will only get D3 bums who think they're Shawn Kemp
Effort wasnt there most of the year.
This team played 5 freshmen for a large chunk of the season. That says a lot. The transfers we brought in didn’t fit and Pike just went with talent. Hopefully they can keep the 3 freshmen not going in the lottery, JWill, JMike and add some players that fit the system. Pike will 100% get a chance to correct the roster but next year will need to be a big step forward.
When guys don’t know what they are doing, it looks like lack of effort. Example… Somerville battled tonight and played extremely hard. He struggled switching and hedging on screens, which allowed easy layups. I never questioned his effort but mentally he has to catch up. He’s only a freshman. He will figure it out.
It takes a few seasons to get 3-star players to mature and be successful in a system. That doesn't work in this new environment.
It's no longer about development. It's about building teams on an annual basis via the transfer portal.
It's not what Pike is cut out for.
An elite coach would have figured out how to win more than 15 games with two 1st round draft picks as starters.But but but… the post game announcers said he’s an “elite” coach!
Somerville played hard on offense today but he’s all about points. Picking up fouls by playing D puts him on the bench,
Not playing D does not. He knows what he’s doing.
Davis was worse. Played many more minutes with nothing more than that to show for it.
Not true. Leaving that switch was a mental error not a tactic to reduce fouls. Come on.
I’m not talking about a specific play. He hasn’t played D all year. He never helps and just lets the offense go by him rather than exert effort or risk a foul. In other years, he would have been pulled. This year was a free-for-all with no accountability for actions or lack of effort on the court.
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So tired of hearing about TWO TOP 5 PICKS.
That may be the future.
BUT This year we had two 3rd team all B10 players. Thats it. No other reference is relevant to the RU season.
And very little around 3rd team college talent, talent wise, toughness wise or bball IQ wise.
That may be the future.
BUT This year we had two 3rd team all B10 players. Thats it. No other reference is relevant to the RU season.
And very little around 3rd team college talent, talent wise, toughness wise or bball IQ wise.
Can you please explain why? Not ragging on you, just having a hard time summoning up any hope. Like the majority of RU fans, I thought this year was going to be a culmination of everything that’s been building up over recent years. The new mansion on the foundation that Corey, Geo, Caleb, et al built. Succeed with a deep NCAA run and the sky’s the limit.
To fail the way this team has IMO puts the program back into perpetual mediocrity (at least under the current system & in the current conference) with no daylight in sight. It’s bleak and I don’t think I’m being reactionary.
Davis was key in that pressing defense that turned the game around in the 2nd half
What 5-star high school senior would ever commit with Pike, knowing they may never play in the dance. Harper and Ace will be drafted in spite of the horrible season, but Pike and RU will get no credit for their success. These guys may get less money than they would have, had they played for a program that made the NCAA tourney.
Both have asthma. I don't think either of them have completely figured out how to manage it yet. They will, but it will take a little more time. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still a bit of an issue for both as rookies in the NBA.
It’s just like Robbie Hummel said when they finally woke up in the second half, he commented that RU’s effort was turning the game in the second half with the pressing defense was but then he said “what took them so long?” Story of this season as we would see random spurts of 5-10 minutes of good effort and good play but that good stretch was either preceded and/or followed by 10-15 minutes of lackadaisical, sleepy, and sloppy play. We saw this all year, short flashes of good play outweighed by longer stretches of poor defense, poor interior defense and rebounding and just poor play. 15-17 did not happen by accident, due to bad luck or conspiracies…..15-17 happens for a reason.
No. But there’s obviously a reason we’re in his top schools. That’s why I told the poster to ask him
48 straight sellouts but 12 straight at least with noticeable empty seats .. not good
Thankfully the season is over. This last game is a perfect encapsulation of the season. Pike has embarrassed this program. Total joke what transpired with 2 top 5 picks.
Time to hit the portal big time, and no doubt in my mind that Pike whiffs there.
Time to hit the portal big time, and no doubt in my mind that Pike whiffs there.
Funny, but I can recall reading post after post last year at this same time saying exactly the same thing. So, now 2 years in a row and next year looking like a complete rebuild again. Not good
He's maddening. So unathletic. But somehow can get the ball in the hoop though. Then will try to put ball on floor from 15 ft and it's a disaster. Doesn't make anybody better. Lost on defense.
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