Basketball GAME THREAD: Rutgers Hoops vs. Illinois
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Agree but this is the first season since I've been a fan when I've been able to live in the moment. I just have to assume that we'll fill the gap somehow. We're a more desirable destination than ever. And as Pikiell says you pretty much need to plan that there will be lots of turnover every year. Hoping that we haven't been caught with our pants down and we've been considering the possibility of Myles leaving.
Early year they were moving and passing. Then it got selfish and one on one. And Pike has no offensive plans. The horrible inbounds and end game plans are proof enough.
Now the defense and rebound is eroding.
And what would that accomplish exactly? Having a temper tantrum would make him feel good or something? Caleb nailed a guy in the junk. Total accident? Who knows but these are the rules now. Down 20. No reason to make it worse. Plus, losing Caleb was probably a positive. He's been dreadful.
When you get out rebounded 46-21 you’re probably not going to win. Our guys didn’t rebound. Kofi is gonna tip the scales when he allowed to push everyone but you still need to man up and we didn’t
Lol you’re funny guy...
Rutgers was beat by a better team and that sucks but it’s ok since they will dance.
But...was disappointed by Pike’s ongoing grin a bear it approach. It’s tournament time.
What do you think Myles does. Unless you see him with his hand on someone, it’s not a foul. You are absolutely allowed to bump people. He is a massive and athletic man.
Rutgers was beat by another team tonight, but they were playing with one hand tied behind their back. This officiating crew was a total POS and NEVER allowed us to play our game.
It may have been a foul but the other two fouls that put him in foul trouble were total bull$hit.
Myles did foul. My problem was Kofi not getting called. He should have been sitting on the bench too.
That POS should have been in foul trouble all night. If you're going to call it on Myles then you need to call it on Cofi because he fouled even more on so many plays that were not called.
Every team deals with that to some extent. What will Illinois be next year without Cofi and Dosumo. Purdue without Traveon Williams or IU with Jackson-Davis. That’s college ball. MJ will be a huge loss but many wouldn’t have predicted that 3 yrs ago.
I hate our defense. We spend too much time helping and not enough time guarding their men. 1st off Kofi sucks. Hes athletic 7ft and 285lbs. Just stand your ground on defense. Play straight behind hin not to either side he has no post moves. You wait until he drives his shouldee into you and go down. He is all brute force. Forget defense he is absolutely terrible on defense. Hes ok if hes the secondary guy in defense as he'll collect the block if its 4ft and out shot. If he is the primary defender he is beyond horrible. He got burnt 100% of the time. When MJ is making him look lost you GO RIGHT AT HIM
My source (his host on his original visit, who has become a mentor of his in the eng'g school) thinks he's staying, as he's accepted into RU's eng'g grad school. Hope so, obviously.
This would be awesome. I hope in the off season Pike can get Myles and Omoruyi to play together out there.
Illinois has the frosh of the year. And Bead recruits the crap out if it.
TDJ may be back but who cares as they stunk this year anyway.
Purdue has a 7ft. 4 frosh center.
Other than Harper..what proven studs does Rutgers have coming back?
This would be awesome. And he can go tell the POS B1G officiating they can go fuVk themselves.
again.. Kofi was not called the same as myles was. And 3 of the 5 were legit. The l4th.. he took a swipe at the ball hitting nothing.. ref used the whole horizontal arm thing as if he were trying to block a shot rather than try to tap a rebound without going over the top on someone.. very lame call. And you know the other lame call.
I ask you guys.. how many of our losses were cases of refs taking us out of the game early with calling us tight and the other guys doing what they want? It is at least 3... NOW.. that doesn't mean we were better than those teams or that we would not have lost if fairly officiated.... but it is disheartening to fans to see that.. can you imagine being a player and seeing the other team can do anything they want but you cannot play the same way?
There were a few bad calls tonight, as I've said, but if you think the officiating tonight made a significant difference in this game, you're clueless. We were destroyed in every way tonight.
A few? Let’s remember when the fouls were called and what type they were. Early foul calls on RU changed up how we played on defense. Hard to press, best shot blocker on bench etc etc... Now let’s talk about not one but two tech fouls. That was a potential swing of 5 points plus possession. Box score will show foul calls were more even because of late calls on Illy. In what world should Kofi be called for only two fouls last night? Again let me be clear I am not saying RU wins last night if officiating was truly fair. Much credit to our opponent who rightfully should be a number 1 seed. Just would have been nice to see how we could have fared against a number 1 seed.
You need to know how to play defense. Here is the way you play Kofi. You play behind him. You do not front him, if you front him you already lost he's so strong he will hold you off and get the over the top pass. You do not play off either of his hips again you are playing in to his strength...his strength and manhandle you off the opposite hip you are shading. You play directly behind him and let him get the ball. He is going to have wrap and throw an elbow or lower his shoulder into you as he does not have much in the way of post moves it's all brute strength...use that to your advantage. He Iis not going to beat you with finesse.
On offense you go right at him RHJ blew by him no problem every time. Even Myles who has next to nothing on post moves made him look real bad in the paint. The problem with our guys is that for the most part outside of RHJ & PM everybody that drives the basket is so out of control they lose that advantage. Kofi is a perfect setup for Mac where he should be scoring his points. He's terrible from 3pt land and his points should be coming from 15ft in
Honestly Douc matches up offensively very well with Kofi as he actually has post moves and could have lot him up if he could finish
Just wanted to point out, my post had nothing to do with how you defend kofi. I am saying that Kofi committed many obvious fouls and infractions that were not called. Not a single call in the first half.
Exactly correct.. all we ask for a FAIRLY OFFICIATED GAME. The refs did NOT let the players decide the game. Several times this season Big Ten Refs have cancelled out our big men early. This Illinois game was one of them.
We have seen Rutgers lose a number of ways.. unfairly officiated games is just one of them. We have no idea what would have happened if it were fairly officiated.
Amusing but pretty sure that was a jersey grab for balance while being pushed.. just in the wrong place. The refs, by committee.. really screwed the pooch on that one.
Of course I was kidding.
It's hard to figure how they could be so dumb. It definitely ranks among the stupidest calls that I've ever seen.
