Big 10 Tourney 2nd round game thread: RU-Northwestern

[AreYouNUTS]

Don't get me wrong guys: that sucked lol!!

 

[waretown]

We have more air balls than buckets made

Say good night Gracie, the fat lady has sung and left the building

 

[ColonelRutgers]

Remember Barcelona.

 

[RU848789]

Good TO by NW, as they were in danger of losing, lol. Holy crap we suck tonight. Is there a fast forward button.

 

[RUfan620]

Sanders is such a selfish player...sit him

Can you explain? Kid leads the team in assists and plays hard defense.

 

[bac2therac]

Is anyone plugging into the equation that we played an all-out game last night and NW didn't? This is ugly, but everything on offense and defense is about our tired legs.

okay you can only use that excuse so much. RU allowed a 20-0 in the first 8 minutes, its not like this blowout happened in the 2nd half.

its an excuse, yes you can be tired but geez TCU played yesterday and went and beat Kansas, do not make it okay that they gave up a 31-0 run which it sounds like you are doing

 

[bac2therac]

Can you explain? Kid leads the team in assists and plays hard defense.

how about coming down the court and jacking us a low percentage shot within the first 5 seconds

 

[shields]

Shooting is right, CJ had open 8 footer and can't make it in their run.

 

[KnightTerrors]

Everyone calm the hell down. Horrible run yes. But starting to call out players personally is a joke. There is 4 minutes left in the FIRST half and they're shooting over 60% while we cant buy a bucket. RELAX.

 

[RUBlackout]

Only thing worse than this score right now are oir fans

Calling out players
Turning so quickly in the team

 

[PiscatawayMike]

the goal here is to make it a 15 point game at the half

 

[RutgersRaRa]

okay you can only use that excuse so much. RU allowed a 20-0 in the first 8 minutes, its not like this blowout happened in the 2nd half.

its an excuse, yes you can be tired but geez TCU played yesterday and went and beat Kansas, do not make it okay that they gave up a 31-0 run which it sounds like you are doing

Nope, 31-0 is fvcked up, but we walked into a team shooting lights out and playing well on defense. We'll see how we respond, but don;t jump to conclusions because I'm saying we're tired. We are.

 

[bethlehemfan]

I am seeing some tired lazy basketball out there right now. They've hit the wall

 

[80RU]

And they even reverted back to that fretful and free pass into the post

 

[BillyC80]

Thiam with another 3. Damn, he sat too long.

 

[RUJMM78]

Coach Pikiell has mentioned many times that the team has no margin for error.It takes exceptional defense to stay close in games and tonight its missing.Thiam is the only player showing a pulse on offense .

 

[ColonelRutgers]

Our guards in this game - just a disaster.

 

[RUTrack94]

What is the record for most offensive fouls?

 

[RocktheRac]

For all the peeps who are using the tired legs excuse why did u pick them to win?

 

[greenknight]

Nigel Johnson needs to get under control he has lost it

 

[BillyC80]

It didn't look like McIntosh was set on that charge.

 

[bac2therac]

Coach Pikiell has mentioned many times that the team has no margin for error.It takes exceptional defense to stay close in games and tonight its missing.Thiam is the only player showing a pulse on offense .

you are right Thiam is the most active and energized...during that run we really lacked any leadership..thats why I got on Sanders case, he is suppose to be the guy that settles things and runs the offense and it wasnt happening

 

[RUforJERSEY]

Just got home. Thought the game would start later and misjudged. After going up 9-6, what the hell happened? Walked in the door and it was 16-9, and now 24-9. This is getting ugly.

You? I turned it on at 37-12.

 

[RocktheRac]

Haha Sanders

 

[RU Mike73]

Missed break away layup says it all

 

[G- RUnit]

Hope for next year with Thiam. Would like CBI for three more games.

 

[G- RUnit]

Missed break away layup says it all

Goaltending!

 

[Night Man]

It didn't look like McIntosh was set on that charge.

Yeah he met Nigel halfway (given existing momentum) and fell over.

 

[RutgersRaRa]

We cut into the lead. Let's see if we have anything in the second half.

 

[PatrickRU92]

good job by our team not giving up.

 

[Night Man]

Reasonable end to the half. No 50 point losses for this bunch under any circumstances.

 

[bac2therac]

all things considered being down 18 isnt all that bad...was that a 15-5 run?

 

[Mr Magoo]

Tired legs. Big deal. Teams win back to back (and more) games consistently during this week of the season every single year.

 

[RUnTime]

31-0 smh

 

[RUTrack94]

If we remove the 29-0 run, RU up 24-13 ...

 

[G- RUnit]

Molly is very cute.

 

[RC85]

Yeah he met Nigel halfway (given existing momentum) and fell over.

Agree. Bad call. For the record.

(refs are killing us:()

 

[soundcrib]

Cut it to 10 and I'll believe

 

[shields]

I wanted to get one game in tourney, just hope that they play hard in second half.

 

[BillyC80]

We were down by 28, and cut it to 18. Big hill to climb, but not dead yet.