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Basketball Rutgers Basketball suffers 81-74 loss to No. 8 Michigan State at MSG

Martini has lost all confidence

It's crazy neither he nor Hayes has been able to be an impact 3 point shooter for this team

If Hayes gets 5 open looks from 3...
They have both been horrendous in virtually every game this season. At some point, maybe we just need to acknowledge they aren't B1G caliber players and this is the best they can do.
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Basketball Rutgers Basketball suffers 81-74 loss to No. 8 Michigan State at MSG

This was a pathetic showing. We have a legit shot to finish in the bottom three and miss the conference tourney, especially with the lack of size and how this team has issues with playing hard for all 40 minutes of a game.
Somerville certainly doesn't play up to his size. Can't overpower even smaller players, doesn't have a good dunking ability and shoots poorly from outside.
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Basketball Rutgers Basketball suffers 81-74 loss to No. 8 Michigan State at MSG

Fair but when Dylan puts up 20 Derkack doesn’t put up all the points he does. And while it does create more room only maybe Ace capitalizes. Maybe not as MSU has done a good job on him. And the others you speak of. Doubt they could execute.
LOL sure maybe Derkack's breakout game goes for 20 in that hypothetical. Does a healthy Harper still not get 18, 19 and open up Ace for a few more baskets? Harper is also better on D than any of R guards.

Pikell Just Sucks

i mean i really think of all the games to criticize pike this was not it

youre down your one true big and your best guard for the 2nd half and you lose by 7

hes had 9 other losses this year that were honestly more egregious than this one
Pike is responsible for both the roster and the game day coaching. This team was doomed before the first game based on roster construction, poor player evaluation, and failure to address our obvious interior needs. Our injuries have been nothing remarkable. It's just not a very good team.

Basketball Rutgers Basketball suffers 81-74 loss to No. 8 Michigan State at MSG

100% agree – – they could easily be 6–3 instead of 3–6 in the conference right now.
Stop, this team does not execute winning basketball. They could easily have beaten Kennesaw, easily beaten Bama, easily beaten Princeton, easily beaten A&M, easily beaten PSU on the road…..but they didn’t……good teams win, bad teams find ways to lose. These guys find ways to lose, they are 6-10 in their last 16 games. They are not a good team.

Basketball Rutgers Basketball suffers 81-74 loss to No. 8 Michigan State at MSG

And every one a clean look at an important juncture. If he makes two of those, it’s a very different game down the stretch. He was recruited to make those shots, and he has done so in the past, but some are still blaming Pike.
Martini has lost all confidence

It's crazy neither he nor Hayes has been able to be an impact 3 point shooter for this team

If Hayes gets 5 open looks from 3...
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Derkack needs to get benched

Good half or not against Michigan State - he's an end of the bench guy on this level who should not get anywhere close to the minutes he gets. That he has so many opportunities tells you how poor this team really is.
he averages 21 minutes per game thats rotational minutes for a player who is a rotational piece on most average to above average teams

Basketball Rutgers Basketball suffers 81-74 loss to No. 8 Michigan State at MSG

He's now 12 games under .500 in nine years coaching a team that should easily win 7 out of their first 10 games every year.
But he made the tournament two of those years, so he’s a god. The bar is low here. He’s always compared to our prior loser coaches instead of the rest of college basketball.
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