Where the pike haters at?

mugrat86

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No one here and I mean no has repeatedly said Caleb has been our least efficient offensive player the last two years, that he cannot play off the ball, and that he should be moved back to point guard more than me.

I won’t deny any of it. As it’s all true. And Caleb has been unlocked now playing PG since Geos injury. You gotta love it
I don’t recall you ever saying he should play point. You just always commented how Mathis was such a better player
 

Shell21

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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 thought Ron was en fuego and I continue to love moving Caleb back to PG he is a totally different player. They carried us tonight and big ups to Mag kid is for that it factor.
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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RUOtBOtOR

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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.
 
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The whole game was pretty fun to watch. Toe to toe with a #1 ranked, undefeated team. There good moments. There were bad moments. The refs made some really bad calls,,, both ways, but the ones against us seemed particularly bad and the announcers highlighted it.

Doesnt get much more entertaining and fun.
Considering I thought we would get blown out this is a huge win!
 
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S_Janowski

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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 thought Ron was en fuego and I continue to love moving Caleb back to PG he is a totally different player. They carried us tonight and big ups to Mag kid is for that it factor.

Go pound sand dude. Your takes are god awful.
 

koleszar

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just enjoy tonight's win now.
Tommorrow you can put conditions on how the win should be taken.
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.
 

S_Janowski

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No one here and I mean no has repeatedly said Caleb has been our least efficient offensive player the last two years, that he cannot play off the ball, and that he should be moved back to point guard more than me.

I won’t deny any of it. As it’s all true. And Caleb has been unlocked now playing PG since Geos injury. You gotta love it


No one here and I mean no has repeatedly said Caleb has been our least efficient offensive player the last two years, that he cannot play off the ball, and that he should be moved back to point guard more than me.

I won’t deny any of it. As it’s all true. And Caleb has been unlocked now playing PG since Geos injury. You gotta love it

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.
 

RUsojo

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The whole game was pretty fun to watch. Toe to toe with a #1 ranked, undefeated team. There good moments. There were bad moments. The refs made some really bad calls,,, both ways, but the ones against us seemed particularly bad and the announcers highlighted it.

Doesnt get much more entertaining and fun.
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.
 

RUsojo

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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.

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.
 

S_Janowski

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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 thought Ron was en fuego and I continue to love moving Caleb back to PG he is a totally different player. They carried us tonight and big ups to Mag kid is for that it factor.

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.
 

RUsojo

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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.
“
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.”
 

S_Janowski

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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.”

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.
 
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RUsojo

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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.
“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.
 

S_Janowski

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“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.
 

RUsojo

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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.
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
 

RC80

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They will be back at 9:35 on Sunday night - if the other team wins.
 

S_Janowski

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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

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 :).
 

needmorecowbell

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Pikell outcoached Painter by a mile. The trap he drew up in the final minute was a gem. That gave us a chance.
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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