Obviously, someone hasn't been really watching the breakdown of the games....Caleb has been bringing the ball up the ball and starting the offense much more recently and RU is in most games, despite Geo's up and down season (outside of yesterday, which was more lack of defense than Geo not scoring enough). I don't know how certain things get spun into a narrative, but this roster is good enough to win a game without a major contribution from Baker......and it's won games without a game of note from Montez Mathis as well.....
The question is not about Baker any longer, fans aren't watching what's happening.....,the real step is when do we starting to hold the 4 freshmen to a higher standard of ownership, play, performance and being ready to play from the opening tipoff, that we hold Geo and Eugene to that same standard. The Geo thing is a 2 or 3 month ago, situation, where if he missed shots back in November, we didn't believe anyone else was ready to take those shots or make those plays.
Geo had 9 points on 9 shots and we handled Iowa on the road easily.....
Geo didn't dominate things on the road at Northwestern and we won that game....he had 12 points and took 11 shots....
Geo only took 7 shots vs Minnesota and had 5 of 6 FT's to help seal things at the end, but not the key shooter or scorer at this stage of the season.
The 0-10 vs PSU should be a signal to fans that RU was in a game where Baker and Mathis gave no production of points....if this was a "Geo must play well to win", then the PSU game should have been a 10 to 15 point win for PSU....
Time to adjust things and refocus regarding Geo and Eugene as well....we are winning games and its far from the Geo and Eugene 2 man-band of 2 to 3 months ago.....we have other options to go to now and a "Geo must play well situation", doesn't get RU from 3 B1G wins to 7 B1G wins. It happens because the entire roster evolves and is better.....and that should be encouraging, not a stale narrative that doesn't apply anymore.....
