Basketball LIVE GAME THREAD: RHoops vs. Hofstra

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Young's green light is turning amber

 

[zappaa]

Let’s score

 

[PatrickRU92]

As someone who is known to ***** about the refs, I'm going to give them all small props--the last 2 years they have all been very good about respecting a defenders verticality. 5-10 years ago they would call those fouls

 

[FrankZ_RU93]

Myles blocks reaching comical

 

[RU MAN]

I'd like to see Paul take more shots when he's open. He still has a pass first mentality. The kid can score.

 

[BillyC80]

Myles swat!

 

[bac2therac]

half court looks ugly without Harper and Geo

 

[Degaz-RU]

Zone offense is awful

 

[Ronnie_B]

Jesus, Myles is a beast

 

[FrankZ_RU93]

Myles may have a dozen block game this year

 

[koleszar]

Well this offense got ugly real quick. Time to change this line up.

 

[zappaa]

Jesus, Myles is a beast

Cliff?

 

[BillyC80]

How many blocks does Myles have already?

 

[MadRU]

Way out of sync

 

[bac2therac]

mathis miss 2 ft and bad foul by young, pretty poor last 3 minutes by RU

they will need to pick up their game offensively in the 2nd half

 

[RU05]

Myles blocks reaching comical

Love Myles.

 

[FrankZ_RU93]

How many blocks does Myles have already?

4

 

[MadRU]

Without Geo, Harper needs to find a way to stay on the court

 

[RU05]

mathis miss 2 ft and bad foul by young, pretty poor last 3 minutes by RU

they will need to pick up their game offensively in the 2nd half

Don't mind it, as I'm hoping the 2nd half is something more then just a walk through.

 

[FrankZ_RU93]

Convert that

 

[MS-RU]

Terrible last few minutes. This game shouldn't be within 20 points.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Yoiung needs to drive occasionally with teh idea of dishing.. not to dish to bail out

 

[bac2therac]

RU couldnt do anything right offensively late..wow 1-10 is awful, mathis and young missing chippies, missing free throws

defense looks great but geez

 

[RU05]

Was that alley oop pass a bit off?

 

[Ronnie_B]

Cliff?

Both?

 

[OTBOTOR]

Watched the last few min of the 1st half and didn’t see RU score once. Ugly on O.

 

[RU05]

Yoiung needs to drive occasionally with teh idea of dishing.. not to dish to bail out

Have to take the good with the bad from Young.

 

[bac2therac]

RU couldnt do anything right offensively late..wow 1-10 is awful, mathis and young missing chippies, missing free throws

defense looks great but geez

its a game where Hofstra if they come out and hit some shots early all of a sudden its just a two possession game and they can get confident so as usual the first 5 minutes of the 2nd half are huge, does RU want to win this easy but shutting the door on Hofstra in those 5 minutes or do they want to do it the hard way and have to grind it out

 

[BOCA93]

Offense just non existent with RHJ on the bench.

 

[FrankZ_RU93]

8-35 shooting from Hofstra. Should be up by 25

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

RU couldnt do anything right offensively late..wow 1-10 is awful, mathis and young missing chippies, missing free throws

defense looks great but geez

gonna take devils advocate on this.. I like that we had that slump. Some of these guys needed an injection of humility.. and hopefully that pays off in the 2nd half. Also.. playing that tough a D probably cost you something on the offensive end.

 

[BillyC80]

Was that alley oop pass a bit off?

The alley was there, but there was no oop.

 

[bac2therac]

RU went from 11-18 shooting to 12-28, 8 turnovers is just too many

on the positive side they are holding Hofstra to just 8-35 shooting...22.5% and just 2-15 from 3

 

[Ronnie_B]

Nice halftime piece on the RAC from BTN

 

[bac2therac]

Mulcahy providing zero on offense and not even being considered to be an option to me is a problem, that problem is compounded when your inside guys are not serious threats either so RU is left with just Harper, Mathis and Young to score and with Harper sitting the last 6 minutes, that removes the 3 position from the offensive equation...relying on just two guys to score is not a good proposition,

 

[RU05]

Nice halftime piece on the RAC from BTN

The halftime piece last game was nice too. All of a sudden the backstories are interesting.

 

[RUsince52]

We get the ball underneath easily, but can't finish and dont get fouled either. Have to work on that part.

 

[RUJMM78]

Rutgers offense against the zone defense needs improvement prior to playing Syracuse .Mulcahy needs to generate some offense from the top of the key or Harper needs to be posted at that spot .for a short jumper or drive to the basket.

 

[RU05]

Mulcahy providing zero on offense and not even being considered to be an option to me is a problem, that problem is compounded when your inside guys are not serious threats either so RU is left with just Harper, Mathis and Young to score and with Harper sitting the last 6 minutes, that removes the 3 position from the offensive equation...relying on just two guys to score is not a good proposition,

Ya, Mulcahy is def too pass heavy. Makes him a bit predictable.

But I'm not going to start making these type of conclusions off a "bad" first half which see's us up 11.

 

[ruready4somefootball_rivals]

Is McConnell taking a red shirt, and if yes, what is the injury?