Looking like Acuff might be coming into form as well. Need a 3rd guy .
Am not sure what it means to his fitness but about 3-4 weeks ago before this supposed flu and he was playing well, I noticed Harper using an inhaler on the bench.
It's been mentioned before that he has asthma.
Holy cr@p!!
Could explain his difficult recovery from the flu. Asthma doesn't place you at greater risk of getting the flu, but it does increase your risk of flu complications (incl. hospitalization).
Run pick and roll and pick and pop with Dylan and Lathan and ACE and have Acuff ready for the kick out and Grant crashing the offensive glass. Run it over and over and over.
Get lost and go root for another team . You suck as a fan.
We lost to Princeton and Kennesaw St previously with Dylan. Our best win is a home win against a Penn St team likely to be on the bubble. We haven’t done a thing on the road or on a neutral court to date, even with “the most dominant player in the B1G”.
Nahhh. I bleed RU. Would love to be wrong. There’s no basis for what OP is saying though
It's a dysfunctional mess even when he's on the court. There's no team, it's 5 guys on the court, all doing their own thing. You may get lucky once in a while, but you're never going to win consistently with the way we play.
You do not a healthy Dylan makes a difference. He did not play against Indiana and therefore scored 0 . He played 15 minutes against Wisconsin looked like he was the walking dead and could barely hit the rim on his 2 shots and scored 0 points. Against Purdue obviously he was still under the weather and gutted out 28 minutes and shot 2-9 and had 6 points.
No he won't. He can score 30 and we still lose because transfers score 0 and play no D. Williams and Ogbole and JMike don't add anything either.
Yup. Guys barking at each other to give it up. Agreed. Total ISO NIL mess.
No sh*t having Dylan back to full strength will be positively impact this team’s performance. My point is that — as I responded to Scarlet83 in this thread — this team hasn’t done ANYTHING this year even with a healthy Dylan. We have no wins of note on the road / neutral court and by now it’s clear the cast surrounding Dylan just isn’t good enough. It’s been fleshed out in countless threads, I’m not gonna beat a dead horse
losses to Princeton, Kennesaw State and Ohio State by 14 with a healthy Dylan.....you have it right. I dont know why posters are doing this to themselves. Sure this team will win games with a healthy Dylan and be a bad loss for some school with NCAA aspirations, not sure what the definition of run is?
its stunning AFTER the worst team performance of the season that they are still in denial and bargainning stages. Its like Stockholm Syndrome. The Dylan flu situation definitely hurt but more concerning was the complete and consistent poor play by the rest of the team including Ace and again the reinforcement of the team not playing defense. Dylan will help some things but the team is what it is right now. There are no fixes or aha moment coming and anyone saying they are coming are just using blind faith and not evidence on the court
what did Ace do in the last two games. He had an incredible game at Indiana and RU still wasnt close to winning.
Spot on, THANK YOU. I’m out here getting called a fake fan because I don’t see a sustained “winning run” (whatever that means) in this team. Again, would love to be wrong — but much as you are, I’m grounding myself in both the results to date AND the eye test. Neither of which suggests Dylan’s return is turning us into a winning team
I find it odd no other players elsewhere have realized a similar fate.
Use your common sense . Bailey went for 39 and Dylan wasn’t there for his 20 + and even if ACE goes for a little less he was hitting his shots and instead of zero from the supporting cast , Dylan points would have been the difference between a win and a loss. We got it to 58-52 so not sure what you mean it wasn’t close. You cannot just look at the final score and not realize that not having Dylan at those critical stages wouldn’t make a difference.
Not excusing the win / loss column as I am disgusted and disappointed by it but Dylan’s health is one cause but to me the the primary reason for the losing is because for the most part our supporting cast has been an absolute failure. They almost could not play worst than they have. Any semblance of a hustling high IQ player from the entire batch would have made a difference. Pike ‘s stubbornness has also cost us.
