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fluoxetine said:
Nope, I have never said anything like that. Luck obviously has an impact from game to game. But you are just not understanding the argument because "it's just luck" is a very bad summary of it.


JMike has cut down on his hopeless drives to the rim though. I mean he still does it sometimes but a lot less than he did earlier in the season.
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I mean, early on, when Purdue was at like 70% from 3, some of that had to be luck. But by the end of the game it normalized considerably. They were 50% from the game and I honestly don’t think a single one of their attempts was contested in the slightest way. Considering who took the shots, it doesn’t seem like luck that they connected on half of their wide open attempts sadly. The two guys that hit most of them are both over 40% of the season overall.

The hopeless drives are bad, but the bigger problem with J Mike looking ahead is his difficulty finishing consistently in transition. Thats the diffeeence between him, and say, Tez who wasn’t efficient but was good at finishing in transition. As long as you have that, some inefficiency with shooting can be overcome by creating offense from defense. We lacked that last year since none of our guards could finish.
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Explaining contract decisions

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RobertG said:
I think some of the NIL issue can be directly attributed to Hobbs. A news article stated recently that Hobbs was virulently against NIL.
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Hobbs was slow on NIL because his boss was not too keen on NIL, and flat out said, “we’re going to go slow on NIL” until we figure out what the landscape is going to be.

NIL was not in his contract, which is probably why he didn’t do much with it.
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Post Mortem.... Near Speechless

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NewJerseyHawk said:
I don't quite understand why people think players or athletes like Montez Mathis, Jacob Young, Caleb McConnell and smart players like Myles Johnson aren't just better players on defense than the recent versions....that was a Top 5 to 20 nationally ranked defense. Those types of players don't fall out of the sky AND play high level defense.....most of those types of players are 5* or very high 4* athletes/players.

I also think the defense wasn't good late vs Iowa, not good at Maryland, not good vs Penn State or Illinois at home... definitely not good vs USC, Purdue etc....

This notion that somehow last night was different is odd.....its not been good most of the year but we lack the players to slow down other good offensive players. If you have too many average players and some that are not true D1 caliber athletes or have B1G level size/length, it's going to look like that on defense. The program like most around the NCAA, are evolving towards more offense and away from being solely reliant on defense.

Once you get past the Top 3 freshman.....Dylan/Ace/Lathan.....do we have another player who starts on some of the NCAA caliber RU rosters a couple of years ago from 2019-2020..... 2020-21, 2021-22???

I don't see players on the last 2 rosters that are better....its simply a talent and athletes issue.
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Who said the D was good the rest of the season? Kenpom said we were the 115th ranked D before the Purdue game. That sucks. Now Kenpom says we’re the 135th ranked D. Even worse.

I’m also not sure what point your making in throwing names out of past players. Pike’s very first team at Rutgers ranked 70th in D. Think about that for a minute…
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Losing Cliff cost us the NCAA Tournament

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toby83 said:
so every paid transfer worked out this year? lot of assumptions on your part. ASSUMING there is a GM in place to find the right guys, make the right decisions. ASSUMING a 22 year old on his second and last check will give a shit about unselfishly buying into a program he doesn't give a shit about. you are naive as hell.
Off top of my head without looking others up: Coleman Hawkins, Dug McDaniel, Johnel Davis, AJ Storr, Malik Mack, Jonas Aidoo.

Talking about entitled 22 year olds. coming up with $5M per year for 5 kids when only 2 or 3 of them will REALLY work out AND make the team better is not going to happen. This is New Jersey, not Chapel Hill. Alumni and fans are not as dialed in, this team is not nearly important enough to the casual fan, not important enough to the more than casual fan who will throw in few hundred per year. Not going to happen here. you are in your own little world.
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None of the paid transfers worked out because we got what we paid for, not much. 2 or 3 working out are 2 or 3 more than we had this year.

The more we pay, the better chance of kids working out. Before we talk about $5M per year, let’s raise $500K per year. true fans are going to make it happen. not casual fans like you.
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guys. Steve Pikiell got the extension because he is the best coach in Rutgers history. 3 tournaments in 9 years(or 2 in 8 depending how you want to look at it) in the big ten and on the bubble once. The first three season were the best 15 wins seasons i have witnessed.

Pikiell needs to reconfigure the staff, start targeting juniors and seniors who are his type of player(defend and rebound), and the fans need to start donating to NIL. Very simple changes.

We look at Pitino. He is on record of not looking at a high school senior and believes you can only win with juniors and seniors. Combine that with a billionaire alum who wants to win and you get a big east championship team.
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Post Mortem.... Near Speechless

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bac2therac said:
and yet you use the same weak type argument about perimeter defense, its just luck
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Nope, I have never said anything like that. Luck obviously has an impact from game to game. But you are just not understanding the argument because "it's just luck" is a very bad summary of it.

fatsam98 said:
When I talk about accountability, a better example is JMike driving to the rim ad nauseum with almost zero success.
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JMike has cut down on his hopeless drives to the rim though. I mean he still does it sometimes but a lot less than he did earlier in the season.
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