Basketball Rutgers Basketball defeats Bryant

[RutgersChow]

Have to agree here. I could even see Wolf some games with Gav off the bench for a spark. But I think honestly that guard combo is a big key. Noah had expectations but just doesn't look like he can create at this level.

No question.

 

[ClassOf02v.2]

5-11 at the line. Issue every damn year.

Have to assume the staff will figure out the best rotations and eventually shorten the bench, but right now everything just looks unorganized & chaotic.

Hyatt and Wolf look ok today (sans the FTs).

Cliff is so disappointing so far this year. No ability to establish himself in the post and mental mistakes left and right.

I’d take Paul over anything we’re seeing thus far from our guards.

 

[bac2therac]

Play is awful to watch. Pike bears some responsibility here; just look totally unprepared.

Bryant is awful

That we cant dominate is concerning

 

[BillyC80]

RU shooting 11-30 (2-12 from 3) and 5-11 from the free throw line. Yet we still lead by 4 at the half.

That’s how bad this Bryant team is. We need to blow them out in the second half.

 

[PiscatawayMike]

Year after year, season after season, it's astonishing how bad we are in our final possession of the first half... it doesn't matter who's on the court.

 

[mikebal9]

No, he needs more minutes so he can return to the player he was the last 6 games last year. Noah and Austin are not Big 10 level players. Simpson has already proven that he is.

Yea, give the worst player on the floor more minutes. He has Jacob Young's out of control style with half the skill.

 

[bslax91]

Why is offense such a foreign concept to literally every Rutgers sport?

 

[RUBlackout]

Why is offense such a foreign concept to literally every Rutgers sport?

This is the major issue…doesn’t ever look good

 

[RutgersChow]

Play is awful to watch. Pike bears some responsibility here; just look totally unprepared.

This is also what you get when you have to replace two experienced college asst. coaches (Young, Hobbs) who know how to teach the game with a couple of AAU guys, who mostly have a lot of talent and just let kids play. From a teaching perspective, the overall staff is weak.

 

[mikebal9]

Let's go with a RutgersAl-ism. This year is free. Next year, we'll have offense.

 

[RUby RED]

Excited to watch individual contributors grow this year, but as a team this current iteration of Rutgers basketball is not a very fun watch

 

[Scarlet Blind_rivals]

Bryant has one player with 3PFs and 3 with 2PFs in a 7 man rotation that played 194 minutes out of 200 vs Manhattan, they wont be able to keep this close.

 

[Bayonnebomber79]

R we still waiting for the team to gel? Looks like a pickup game in the park

 

[RUBlackout]

Excited to watch individual contributors grow this year, but as a team this current iteration of Rutgers basketball is not a very fun watch

Spot on…no TEAM

 

[bac2therac]

Bryant has one player with 3PFs and 3 with 2PFs in a 7 man rotation that played 194 minutes out of 200 vs Manhattan, they wont be able to keep this close.

And we have a 10 man rotation where only 2 guys can shoot

 

[toby83]

Depth is overated
Five guys play in crunch time

 

[BillyC80]

With the 5 starters back out there, I assume we expect to score inside.

 

[BillyC80]

Aundre!!!

 

[IL Lusciato]

Came out of the half w a big lineup.

Playing sound fundamentals...boxing out, switching on D, feeding the post. It makes a difference.

 

[Mr. Magoo1]

And we have a 10 man rotation where only 2 guys can shoot

Who’s the second?

 

[bac2therac]

A bit of breathing space

36-28

Feed Cliff

 

[RutgersChow]

Yea, give the worst player on the floor more minutes. He has Jacob Young's out of control style with half the skill.

Out of your mind. He was our first or second best player by the end of last season. If more than one player has regressed, it's on the staff. Under Pike many players regress.

 

[bac2therac]

Who’s the second?

Hyatt at least approaches 50%

 

[RutgersChow]

5-11 at the line. Issue every damn year.

Have to assume the staff will figure out the best rotations and eventually shorten the bench, but right now everything just looks unorganized & chaotic.

Hyatt and Wolf look ok today (sans the FTs).

Cliff is so disappointing so far this year. No ability to establish himself in the post and mental mistakes left and right.

I’d take Paul over anything we’re seeing thus far from our guards.

Would love to know who were the biggest complainers about Paul, and exactly why.

 

[bac2therac]

Our guards are abysmal

 

[High Quality H2O]

This crowd needs to wake up.

I’m going to get the defibrillator and start shocking everyone in section 211, will work my way down.

 

[High Quality H2O]

Where do they keep the AEDs in this joint?

 

[bac2therac]

Unacceptable effort today all around

 

[dudehimself3]

Oskar plays way too much

 

[RutgersChow]

Hyatt at least approaches 50%

I would say Simpson and Cliff were probably our best two down the stretch last year. After four years in the program cliff should also be way better than this. I remember when 50% of the posters here were afraid he would be one and done.

 

[BillyC80]

Oskar had weak hands

 

[bac2therac]

Going to lose

Because the offense is dreadful vs a small Bryant doing nothing special

 

[koleszar]

All tied with Bryant, oh boy. Quite the collection Pike has assembled.

 

[bac2therac]

I would say Simpson and Cliff were probably our best two down the stretch last year. After four years in the program cliff should also be way better than this. I remember when 50% of the posters here were afraid he would be one and done.

Dude did Derek ever happen here...he has been atrocious this year

 

[IL Lusciato]

Just not a good team.

Not enough talent and no semblance of an identity on either side of the court.

 

[RUBlackout]

Oskar had weak hands

Oskar is not smart…you need to go to the ball not wait for it.
IQ if this team is awful

 

[RUTrack94]

Another RU team that has regressed … Bryant out hustling RU.

 

[bac2therac]

Is this like a 14-3 run

Haha

This performance is ****

 

[IL Lusciato]

Another RU team that has regressed … Bryant out hustling RU.
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These kids don't want to play.

 

[BillyC80]

Pinzon and Withers killing us. Hate it when other teams shoot better than us on our floor.