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T2Kplus20 said:

Need to win 20 to make the tourney.

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No we don’t

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RAC93 said:

The most Rutgers thing ever would be turning this season around, going 8-4 and then playing Minnesota last game in a must win game and losing that game……I have seen that movie before. In all honesty, I might take that scenario as we would at least be watching meaningful basketball the rest of the way.

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Honestly the most Pike thing ever would be going 8-4 and then building a 20 point lead against Minny, giving it all back, but eventually gritting out like a 2 point win.

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Probably fortunate to get a point last night given they got caved in the entire 3rd period. Something has to give with the bottom 6 forwards. They are just giving nothing.

• Haula: 0 points in last 17 games (injured since 1/4)
• Lazar: 1 goal, 1 assist in 22 games all season
• Tatar: 1 assist in last 17 games
• Bastian: 1 assist in last 17 games
• Cotter: 3 goals, 1 assist in last 27 games
• MacDermid/Bowers/Legare/Dowling/Hardman/Foote: 2 goals, 1 assist in 58 total games

That's 11 points from the bottom 6 in basically 20% of the whole season. That's more than just a bad stretch. Some of it is circumstantial - they were banking on recapturing the magic with Hischier and Tatar, but Tatar is borderline unplayable. So Noesen has been forced into the top-6. I like Cotter's overall game a lot, but his early scoring completely dried up. We're in year 6 of Nate Bastian and he offers nothing.

Fitz needs to and will shake this all up.

Local Shill said:

9-4 might well do it. But among the 4 losses, none can be quadrant 3. Another quad 3 loss might be a fatal blow. USC at home is quad 2 for the moment but could slip to quad 3.

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9-4 is not enough. Unless we win 2-3 in the B1G tourney.

I think Nebraska had 5 “team” o rebounds

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BillyC80 said:

The box score linked to this board is showing 17 OReb for RU and only 14 OReb for Nebraska.

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This one shows 19 for Nebraska.

There wasn’t a lot of defensive rebounding going on for either team lol.

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Saw Dweezil Zappa last night. Man, his band is soooooo tight and incredible. If you're a fan of Frank (not for everyone I know) and haven't seen these guys, do yourself a favor.

Alec Crouthamel said:

Midseason Report: How former Rutgers Basketball players are performing

Here's a look at how former Rutgers Basketball players are performing in their new homes midway through the season.

rutgers.rivals.com

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Great read. Thanks. Very interesting stuff.

zappaa said:

Bailey’s release at present is much better than earlier in the year

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Bailey as a whole has played excellent the last 8 games versus the first 8

47% from field, 37% from 3 are both pretty strong for a volume shooter

More importantly 9 rebounds per game over the last 6 games and 2.5 blocks

vkj91 said:

Ozempic is a weekly injection that's approved by the FDA to treat type 2 diabetes in adults. It's not approved for weight loss, but some doctors prescribe it for that purpose.

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I believe the same thing happened with Fen Phen in the early 90's which was just supposed to be used for obesity, but then doctors started prescribing it to everybody who wanted to quickly drop a few pounds.

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First thing I noticed when I saw his pic yesterday was how he’s still rail thin. I figured he’d have bulked up. Wonder what the plan was vis a vis his weight here

I have to admit, its been fun trading NUKK. I haven't been involved in a stock behaving like a meme stock but there is some validity to this company's investment in Israel's Iron Dome. Got in a couple days ago around 23 and sold it premarket today at 35. This is my second trade with NUKK in 2 weeks and both have been quite profitable. If it dips back into the mid 20's I'm gonna give another go.
P.S. I got out too early with CYFRF. Its now over 3.60.

fluoxetine said:

I think *how* you play bad defense factors into how it feels.

They only shot 45% against us so we did see them missing a fair bit and their EFG% of 52.4 is a bit high but not egregious. However,

we forced very few turnovers (7)
we gave up a huge number of ORebs (19 on 34 missed shots)

To the extend that DREB is a separate thing from defense really it was the DREB that was so atrocious

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The box score linked to this board is showing 17 OReb for RU and only 14 OReb for Nebraska.

A little late to this discussion. I was also surprised to see Minnesota get a 17 spot jump but RU only gets a 3 spot jump.

Columbia is 3 spots away from being Q3. They need to go on a run. Meanwhile, RU needs to follow up their best win of the season with another huge road W on Monday to get closer out of the grave. Big opportunity against a team that has lost 4 straight but will definitely show up to play us.

MCKnight2004 said:

@ Mich, @Oregon and @ Purdue are the 3 we’d all say are most certain losses, but a win at any of those will really push the needle

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Road opportunities are littered all over the schedule. Maryland, Northwestern, Washington are road games that if you want to steal into the win column, would help the metrics. Those 3 games mixed with a Nebraska road win, could help offset the Harper absence at Indiana and not close to 100% vs Wisconsin and Purdue.