And on Caleb he had more steals than the entire Purdue team.
Where the pike haters at?
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This kind of sounds like the reverse upset alert invoked by @rutgersal on the football board. Please do not watch the Seton Hall game. I'll take you to dinner at a place with no TVs!
I don’t recall you ever saying he should play point. You just always commented how Mathis was such a better player
The best part is the haters can’t possibly enjoy this win as much as the rest of us. Blinded by their irrational, illogical, and downright stupid hatred of the basketball program’s Schiano. Such an amazing win, and no doubt more highs to come from Pike and crew.
Just stop....it's embarrassing
Nobody likes a know it all loud mouth. He should pipe down.
100 percent he did.
1) he got the kids to play balls to the wall particularly on d. We took them out of a lot of sets they wanted to run particularly on the zoom dribble handoffs with stefbonovich. We went over all of those handoffs and forced them to go to their second and third reads. We didn’t let them kill us from 3 for this reason and let the bigs get theirs
2) our ball movement and actions on offense were much better . I haven’t seen many of the sets we ran tonight ; at least not often. We ran a few great rip screens for Cliff and a bunch of zoom action for Ron. The ball didn’t stick and we moved it from side to side .
3) rotations much better besides riding Paul too long and that one stretch where they went up ten.
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I don’t blame you for missing it I’m on here a lot more than most it’s tough to keep up.
Terrific atmosphere and game. That's what it's all about.
So this makes up for losing to Lafayette, Umass, and DePaul?? Please don’t be delusional. I’m as happy as any fan on this board and loved watching every minute of that game but Pike had nothing to do with it.
Jersey Mike’s getting their moneys worth gonna be on ESPN all day tomorrow
Do you disagree Hawk?
I really don’t want to be that guy on such a great night, so you can start a 10 paragraph thread on why it was a well drawn up play tomorrow.
Considering I thought we would get blown out this is a huge win!
Go pound sand dude. Your takes are god awful.
People were until this thread, so blame the OP. @BoogieKnight stated a good case. They got one back tonight now go get two more huge wins against top teams and we'll call those disappointing loses a wash. The expectation was NCAA tournament and those loses hampered that goal. The expectation wasn't being mediocre, now go get two more and we talk about NCAA Tournament chances again.
Of course not. He is only responsible for the losses. Not the wins.
You are so full of ****. You have so many bad takes and then try and find a way to rationalize some of your bad takes to make up for your other bad takes.
End of 1H got me really frustrated as we tried to squeak out the last few minutes without starters like Pike likes to do and we gave up a bunch of points but other than that I think it was pretty enjoyable game and the RAC contributing to the atmosphere helped a lot in that regard.
Not too often you watch a Rutgers game and think that if a neutral turned this game on they’d know right away this game was a big deal.
He’s also hated him this year. 2 weeks ago said he should be last man in the rotation, but slowly changing his tune. Can’t make it up haha.
Looking forward to your first thread that talks about sports.
I thought we’d get blown out, too. But we seem to match up well with Purdue, for whatever reason. And the team came out with a lot of energy. The shots were falling.
If the players play like that, we have a chance against a lot of teams.
Caleb had a great game tonight but to be fair this is the 1st game all year that he showed up and played the way he can.
Bro like I said you are changing your tune. I can go back and post the thread where you said McConnell should be last man in the rotation.
You’re a joke.
Wrong.. 16 points against Clemson
Listen he’s deserved criticism but for you to try and discount his coaching and substitutions tonight is absurd.
Blame Pikiell for every loss but don’t give him credit for beating the #1 team in the country?
LOL get lost.
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IN:
Jacob Young
Myles Johnson
Montez Mathis
Out:
Geo
Agee/Reiber
McConnell
No no don’t lose it I kid I kid, kind of..
1. Geo Jones Harper Hyatt Cliff
2. Ball screens for Geo and Ron instead of Paul an
3. McConnell out of rotation or last man in rotation.”
“His slump has lasted 2.5 years. It’s not a slump. He’s is one of the least efficient guards in all of high major basketball. He has no idea what he is doing offensively off the ball.”
RutHut you get it. I wish I could have been there. The atmosphere must have been awesome. I was at the “We want cliff” game and that was awesome. This game must have been 20x that one!
Agree. Always said for us to have a successful season Caleb needs to be a big part of it.
He was an animal tonight on defense.
Ok how come you didn’t bold the part before where you said “McConnell out of rotation or last man in rotation”?
That’s an extremely bad take. It’s ok to admit you were wrong. Actually healthy.
“Does anyone think Pike coached a particularly good game tonight? Not taking anything away from him or the guys. What a f****** gutsy effort and head coaches get credit. Just curious what people liked in the management of the game.”
I literally give him credit in the post you’re referring to. And I asked everyone what their opinion was. I just like to talk sports. I think you would enjoy talking sports over policing I think you should take the chip off your shoulder, I mean this in the nicest way, and join in.
I’ll just stop engaging with you. The problem is you always find a way to insert your agenda into almost everyone of your posts and then play stupid.
I don’t think it’s a bad take that’s why. It’s ok to disagree. If his role wasn’t going to be changed I think we’d be better off with him last man in rotation (ideally 8 man keep it shorter than Pike likes) or keep him out. We need offense and if McConnell is olayimg 99% of the game off the ball in the wing he can’t give us any offense and in the last 2.5 years that’s been the case.
Like bro I’m really happy we won why don’t you want me to be lol we’re all on the same team here
Pikell outcoached Painter by a mile. The trap he drew up in the final minute was a gem. That gave us a chance.
Caleb is a guy you cannot measure by the box score. He plays great D and rebounds well. Definitely a guy who is good at intangible
I just don’t understand how on one hand you can say McConnell should be out of the rotation and have multiple posts the past couple years hating on the kids play and on the other post about how valuable he is.
Of course you’re gonna be right either way.
I’m pumped we won just tired of the constant negativity on this board and taking it out tonight.
I’ll go back to enjoying the win and let you be
.Plus not letting one of the best 3 point shooting team get shots. He needed to let the bigs defend and keep them from dropping threes. Great game plan. It’s not the only reason they won but a big reason.
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