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Five Most Brutal Losses of 2024-25 Season

bac2therac
rutgershoopsinsider said:
1.) Nov 24, Kennesaw State, L 79-77
2.) Dec 21, Princeton, L 83-82
3.) Feb 12, Iowa, L 84-73
4.) Feb 28, at Michigan, L 84-82
5.) Feb 1, Michigan, L 66-63

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Definitely first 4 in that order. I would take 1st Michigan game out and replace it with Penn State where we were playing pretty good and then went into a horrible drought
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Losing Cliff cost us the NCAA Tournament

runrutgersrun
rutgershoopsinsider said:
I pointed this out in the first few minutes of the game yesterday.
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Also, not prioritizing a decent center from the transfer portal in the offseason hurt this team badly.

Lathan's defense isn't good by any stretch, but the kid is just a freshman. He'll learn and hopefully improve his defensive game. It was foolish to believe he could be in the anchor on defense for this team. IMO, Lathan is more of a power forward, not a center.

In my preview leading up to the season, the biggest question mark I had for this team was the frontcourt. If the frontcourt couldn't hold up, it would break this season.

As for Cliff, he left for greener pastures and a bigger NIL check. Can you blame him? Listen, Cliff bleeds Scarlet and always will. Rutgers had no shot at keeping him. Now he can pay for his family and other stuff in his life. Had he been at Rutgers a fifth season, he would've been worn down into the ground. He's not getting worn into the ground at Alabama.

Losing Cliff hurt Rutgers badly.
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This ^^^^. Whoever anyone wants to blame for losing Cliff, the answer is actually $$$$ as with most things in life. It has almost certainly always been our RU sports problem. Most other schools have always realized the depth of the pool in which they have decided to swim - and at least acknowledged the need to find resources to compete. At RU we are always looking to offer our latest contract/commitment of the day to the lowest bidder. To blame coaches or players for lack of subsequent success has almost always been missing the real problem...such a shame. Go RU!
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Losing Cliff cost us the NCAA Tournament

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seansherm said:
It would need to be a rim protecting center that was efficient around the perimeter on offense then because Lathan would be clogging the paint. Lathan isn't a 4. Probably isn't a 5 either, but he needs to spend the offseason getting stronger.
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Not necessarily. Other teams in the Big Ten start 2 big men that aren't necessarily going to stretch the perimeter (Indiana, Michigan, Maryland, etc.)

For Indiana and Maryland specifically, none of Ballo, Reneau, Queen, or Reese are 3-PT shooters. If you surround them with enough 3-PT shooting, it will offset clogging the paint and their teams will create a lot of mismatches in the paint and on the glass.
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OT: Things in sports that need to disappear

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voltz99 said:
How does an initial football 1st down spotted? Does the chain gang measure the initial spot? I have never seen the initial spot measured by the chain gang.

My point being, if the initial 1st down spot is not measured then doesn't that make the final measurement bogus?
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Ha ha, was once involved in a brutal argument about this. The chain measurement is nothing but theater. As you said, some dude is just running out out the field and guessing where the first marker goes. Then they stretch the chain out, as if God himself placed that first marker. I almost got punched in the face at the end when I said "whatever they're doing to place the first marker after running out on the field, they could just do the same with the second one near the ball."

So glad to hear somebody else say it.

Anthony, we're good, right?
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Losing Cliff cost us the NCAA Tournament

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NJHoops17 said:
Agreed. I think Pike should try to develop Lathan into more of a PF over the offseason and add a true rim-protecting center in the portal. Add in a good transfer portal point guard and I could see the vision to a team like that being decent
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It would need to be a rim protecting center that was efficient around the perimeter on offense then because Lathan would be clogging the paint. Lathan isn't a 4. Probably isn't a 5 either, but he needs to spend the offseason getting stronger.
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Just Rewatched End Game Sequence

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First and foremost the Michigan player 200% traveled for none of those refs to make that call is beyond criminal; He not only slid on his pivot foot but he lifted it up way before he passed the ball
Second the guard who received the 200% double dribbled!! The only issue here is Michigan called timeout so it is hard to tell if they called timeout before the double dribble
Third is Dylan on the final play he was totally out of position guarding absolutely no one as Wolf was already double teamed and he was caught ball watching; had he been on his man he probably doesn't even get the pass and we win; his closeout very weak because the shot was gone way before he closed out
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Refs

S_Janowski
seansherm said:
Watched it all. We played well offensively for 20 minutes. Defensively for about 5. If blaming the refs makes you feel better, have at it, but its not why RU lost.
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When you’re up 1 with seconds to play and two blatant missed calls each of which would have put the ball back in our hands, you could easily say it’s why we lost (along with other reasons, of course).
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Losing Cliff cost us the NCAA Tournament

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rutgershoopsinsider said:
I pointed this out in the first few minutes of the game yesterday.
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Also, not prioritizing a decent center from the transfer portal in the offseason hurt this team badly.

Lathan's defense isn't good by any stretch, but the kid is just a freshman. He'll learn and hopefully improve his defensive game. It was foolish to believe he could be in the anchor on defense for this team. IMO, Lathan is more of a power forward, not a center.

In my preview leading up to the season, the biggest question mark I had for this team was the frontcourt. If the frontcourt couldn't hold up, it would break this season.

As for Cliff, he left for greener pastures and a bigger NIL check. Can you blame him? Listen, Cliff bleeds Scarlet and always will. Rutgers had no shot at keeping him. Now he can pay for his family and other stuff in his life. Had he been at Rutgers a fifth season, he would've been worn down into the ground. He's not getting worn into the ground at Alabama.

Losing Cliff hurt Rutgers badly.
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Agreed. I think Pike should try to develop Lathan into more of a PF over the offseason and add a true rim-protecting center in the portal. Add in a good transfer portal point guard and I could see the vision to a team like that being decent
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Refs

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S_Janowski said:
When you have the lead and they blow two blatant calls in the last 6 seconds you can most certainly blame the refs for this game. This isn’t even mentioning the two cylinder calls they pulled out of their @ss which are virtually never called.

You act like we didn’t play very well for a large majority of the game.

Did you even watch it?
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Watched it all. We played well offensively for 20 minutes. Defensively for about 5. If blaming the refs makes you feel better, have at it, but its not why RU lost.
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