Amazing what Rest Can Do

[rutgersal]

The extra day of rest made a huge difference in our performance:

- we shot 75% of our free throws. Not stellar, but headed in the right direction after being dreadful the last few games

- we outscored Michigan 37-22 in the second half. During our recent slide, we wilted in the 2nd half

- our FG% for the game was 39.3%. A huge improvement from recent games

- we scored 18 points off turnovers. Thx to our defensive intensity, defense became offense

- we held Michigan 20+ points below their seasonal average. Michigan’s Center in particular had to work for his points

- No matter what happens, this season is a success. He preseason polls had this as a rebuild season, and they were proven wrong. Anything else we get this season is gravy.

 

[FrankZ]

We had the same rest going into the frozen tundra (Sun-Thu), so not following…

 

[fatsam98]

What extra day of rest?

 

[ClassOf02]

Yeah don’t get the premise of this thread. Plenty of times this year we’ve had similar rest. It’s not the reason we played well and won today.

 

[red sail]

Lineup change and 2nd half D adjustments to swarm Dickenson!

 

[Bayonnebomber79]

Tomorrow we get no rest and Purdue gets several days. I hope your premise is wrong

 

[Morrischiano]

Both Caleb’s and Cliffs legs looked tired.

 

[RUBlackout]

look at me thread

 

[rutgersal]

We had the same rest going into the frozen tundra (Sun-Thu), so not following…

And We played competitively in the frozen tundra, even if we fell short. In the tundra we shot 49.1% and 41.7% from downtown.

Not so much when we played Northwestern, where we struggled, and shot dreadfully.

 

[FrankZ]

Your narrative is we didn’t wilt today in the 2nd half because of extra rest. We wilted in the 2nd half in a tundra (that I know too well) with the same rest.