Basketball No. 24 Rutgers Basketball fends off Merrimack 74-63
- By Richie O
- The Round Table
- 89 Replies
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Davis was nearly unplayable. Embarrassed by his man every time and only scored 1 bucket. Acuff hasn’t shown much but should play more than Davis. Bigger and can hit a jumper or two. Davis has no game.Was an usher coaching tonight? There were so many coaching crimes tonight it wasnt funny.
It looked like we had no plan with the zone offense. It's like Pike said "I'm gonna let you guys try figure out how to beat a zone".
Why in the world are we passing to EO in the post and why is he trying to post up? Unreal.
LS thinks he is still on his high school team. We don't need most of those attempts from him. Does the staff coach anyone on good and not-so-good attempts?
Did we have a couple of hard practices this week? Dead legs tonight? Our finishing within 6 feet was BRUTAL tonight. Everyone seemed off and most were not strong to the basket.
I really like Derkack and Williams but Derkack tried to do too much against his former team and I'm still waiting for Williams to be efficient on offense. Williams can't get stripped on that last shot attempt. I hope the staff coaches him up on that.
I just don't see how Davis gets minutes this year, especially if you have Williams coming off the bench (which I think is smart).
We are going struggle defensively. I hope Pike can accept this and spend some time making us more efficient on offense.
Let me slow this down for you - JD will do it in a way where the sane ones will understand, whereas those who claim insanity, regardless of how many times I repeat the same mantra, may still be confused:Let me present your logic back to you...... you're not fine with mid-tier bowls and want better......and the action you've claimed to take is reducing your donations towards football. How exactly do you think that will help getting RU on a path towards better bowls....or even better....your obvious goal of replacing Schiano?
I swear Its like talking to a block head middle schooler wanna be tough guy. The problem here is that you're too fvcking stupid to even understand what you posted and why it's both illogical and hypocritical.
Any opponent that makes at least 10 three pointers will give Rutgers trouble.More shots from Martini and Hayes are needed against tough competition.KSU has a couple of talented guards. Adrian Wooley was the C-USA freshman of the week earlier this season, and Simeon Cottle is the veteran who has scored 20+ three times this season. Their signing class last year was #27 in the country after the early signing period because they signed five 3* players that I'm sure will be eager to see how they compare with our freshman class.
Merrimack had open 3 pointers they missed which likely won't happen against Notre Dame and Alabama.This board is so funny. Last game you guys killed RU for horrible defense. Tonight they hold a team to 41% shooting 4/17 on threes and dominate the glass. So of course now you kill them because the offense is terrible.
Exactly. And he was contained by a better team defense approach led by J Mike. Clark is lightening quick so none of our guards were going to keep him in front of them without help.Clark scored 2 points in the second half. He was contained.
How about Dylan attack from the wingYour points 3 and 4 were on point . I thought O played as well as he could but he was still bad. If you’re the D, you’ll take him getting post ups all day. How do we not get our best 3 shooters more minutes and more looks. Did we even try to run a set play for any of them? How about putting Ace more in the dunker spot. How about playing smaller with Martini at the 5? I would have put Harper at the high post and let him catch and drive right at the D. Big O just clogging up the lane. At least let him come up and set some screens
Its rather apparent that this team has great difficulty playing man to man defense even against mediocre opponents.The few times Rutgers played a zone defense Merrimack had trouble getting open shots.Pikiell better seriously consider playing more zone defense because the higher level of competition in future games will easily score against Rutgers man to man defense.There is no evidence in defensive improvement and the substitution patterns at times lacked having 3 point shooters on the court.RU fans need defensive effort to get into the game, it’s a different brand of basketball than what Pike has had this team playing in the past.
Rutgers would have lostIf my aunt had balls…
If my aunt had balls…Lets just be thankful that Merrimack had a bad shooting night.
With 6 minutes left i looked up at the board and saw we would be down 6 if they shot 33% from 3 and we would be down 23 if we flip flopped the 3 pt shooting %
So so so true. Defensive version of fools goldMerrimack had open 3s galore all night and they killed us in the paint
Dont get fooled by 64 points..it was a bad defensive effort
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Great insight. Thanks for speaking up.Another genius OP
JWill, Derkack and JMike are far too redundant as far as skill sets and abilities: none are good shooters and they are all supposed to be plus defenders. We don’t need to play all three of them. Cut one out of the rotation, why do we need to play 3 defensive specialists (NONE OF WHOM IS OFFERING GREAT DEFENSE CURRENTLY BTW) who can’t do much offensively? Doesn’t make sense, just play Derkack and JWill.Was an usher coaching tonight? There were so many coaching crimes tonight it wasnt funny.
It looked like we had no plan with the zone offense. It's like Pike said "I'm gonna let you guys try figure out how to beat a zone".
Why in the world are we passing to EO in the post and why is he trying to post up? Unreal.
LS thinks he is still on his high school team. We don't need most of those attempts from him. Does the staff coach anyone on good and not-so-good attempts?
Did we have a couple of hard practices this week? Dead legs tonight? Our finishing within 6 feet was BRUTAL tonight. Everyone seemed off and most were not strong to the basket.
I really like Derkack and Williams but Derkack tried to do too much against his former team and I'm still waiting for Williams to be efficient on offense. Williams can't get stripped on that last shot attempt. I hope the staff coaches him up on that.
I just don't see how Davis gets minutes this year, especially if you have Williams coming off the bench (which I think is smart).
We are going struggle defensively. I hope Pike can accept this and spend some time making us more efficient on offense.