Call your shot now. Will we be IN or OUT
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Yeah and of course RU was shipped to Arizona to play what was essentially a road game against Arizona State. Another example of the RU Screw. Just not our own administration exercising it that time
Downers??? That's bullshit. You are a wishful RU fan despite what we've seen to date. Wake up.
We'd all love to see the team in the NCAA tourney...but we have eyes.
Are we on the path to a NCAA tourney? No one can answer "yes" with a straight face. To get there, a course correction must be made. We haven't seen any evidence that the staff knows which buttons to push to help this year's roster course correct. Even you are making suggestions as to what Pike should be doing differently (play Grant). In Pike's defense, he has ZERO experience navigating with this type of roster (2 1-and-dones and too many neutral-to-minus defenders).
2 young kids adjusting to the speed of the college game? LOL. That is utter non-sense as your brain is attempting to keep you in a "hopeium" state of mind. You are just grasping at straws. We are 39% thru the regular season.
Unfortunately, I'm very confident we will not make it because we're poorly coached offensively. There's no way we can ride the defense to the NCAA tournament with this roster. None.
In.......Still most of the conference slate ahead. Failing that, I still won't give up until the last BIG tourney game that we are in.
Do we stay the course and get in? If not, what do you think has to happen/change for us to make the tournament?
We all hope we make the tournament.
Team relies on a lot of freshman minutes. IMO they will continue to get better as the season progresses.
Could have fooled me on this forum about the hope of the tourney with all the histrionic and "Its Over" threads and posts. Many have already given up. All that's left for them is to yell at the clouds about firing Pike and how much is sucks to be an RU fan. My own feeling is what fun is there as a fan in giving up before it's actually over....especially when there really is no "playing for next season" in the current landscape of college basketball.
Haven't given up, and think this team can still improve a LOT by March. That doesn't mean they'll have the resume to get selected for the tournament, though.
If we start blowing the doors off of people over the next 4-5 games, I'll reassess my opinion.
Forget about blowing the doors off teams, I’ll just take wins at this point. We are 3-5 in our last 8 games…..this team needs wins, desperately, and lots of them.
And those other teams are grabbing wins along the way while RU is 3-5 in the last 8 and facing another potential landmine of a game with Columbia (I don’t know how anyone who has watched this team can confidently say they’ll beat Columbia). This team needs to have an incredible month of January before realistic conversations about the NCAA can start up again.
I’m watching Columbia play Fairfield at the moment and while our team has been disappointing to date…I imagine we will win by 20 on Monday
I didn’t say we won’t win, I am saying you can’t look ahead with this team at ANY game and with confidence say that it is a gimme win. I did that with Kennesaw, Notre Dame, Seton Hall and Princeton and said that’s 4 wins….this team proceeded to lose 2 of them and barely beat Notre Dame (if Allocco three falls we lose) and barely beat Seton Hall with Dylan’s made three. We could easily have gone 0-4 in those games, think about that…..there are no gimmes for this team so I could see them beating Columbia but just as easily this team can lose to just about anybody. They don’t instill confidence in their ability to win, not sure if they themselves are confident they can win…..they need to develop the confidence and quick.
Sticking to the 1st part of your post, I see LS declining as we start playing conference games. I don't expect him to be much of a factor as we head into the tougher part of our schedule. Not fair to put expectations on him imo.
Tough to see Harper playing any better. He's been unreal from the jump.
Ace could improve. The staff isn't helping him offensively though and he has shown that he cannot get to the rim in a half court set. High volume of contested long 2 point attempts. His game/shot selection has looked pretty similar each game so far this season.
Lol. It's like you're creating a naughty list for Santa Claus. Anyone who doesn't believe Rutgers will make the NCAA tournament this year is a downer and gets coal in their stocking.
NCAA> just squeak in
N1T > No need
B1G > Team jelling by tourney time and make a good enough showing to earn a Dance Ticket
It's clearly a thread that will turn into a "I told you so" if we go on a tremendous hot streak. Not the worst investment but not likely to hit either.
Sure, but it's a point-in-time prediction. I was convinced we'd missed the tournament during 2021-22 before we reeled off 4 wins in a row over ranked teams. I was also convinced we had made the tournament in 2022-23, but the committee saw it differently.
Still a lot of games to be played - and the Rutgers that comes out starting Monday may emerge from the holiday break with an entirely different level of performance after something "clicks". That's not the way I'd bet, though - if I had to put money down today based on what I've seen so far, it'd be against us making the tournament.
Yup point in time. Also if you believe based on their current body of work they are good enough. Obviously most think not. I think they are. 🤷🏻♂️
Gotcha. Hopefully all the "no" votes have to eat a ton of crow. I know I'd be thrilled to do so.
If one had to bet their house on whether or not we make it, good luck trying to explain to the spouse why the bet was placed on "in".
Anyone unemotionally attached to Rutgers would laugh at an "in" bet. The long shot could pay off, but highly unlikely. That person would most likely be homeless and divorced at the end of the season.
Anyone unemotionally attached to Rutgers would laugh at an "in" bet. The long shot could pay off, but highly unlikely. That person would most likely be homeless and divorced at the end of the season.
Bailey has been big disappointment. And defense. And inability to play anything other than playground ball on offense.It's shocking with all the "sweet 16" predictions LOL that we're now mostly out. This team was ranked 24 to start the season so it wasn't just on here. The over-hype of players and coaching .. we haven't even hit the Conf. play yet.
18-16 / 19-16 would the NCAA want the young guns in? THAT'S with 500 conf. play.
we're OUT.
I don't think there's a lot of crow to eat when virtually no neutral observer would put money on yes here (assuming even odds).
I will be thrilled if the season is turned around but I won't think I made the wrong vote in this thread. Sometimes the less likely outcome happens.
The improvement I'm projecting is not individual as if this was a pickup game of street ball. Rather the improvement will come in recognition of what the other team / players are doing resulting in quicker/better decision making, less mistakes, turnovers as well as better rotations on D etc. Like anything else, we'll see....but I'm sticking with "IN".
Can you believe we have the best class in — maybe forever — and it’s not even one of Pike’s top 3 teams..?
Out.
Out.
Sure. Best frosh class. Everything else is barely a step ahead of Pike’s first season on the Banks - the returning talent was actually better that year. Think about that.
And if it doesnt happen he will shrug his shoulders and slink away
The way he is conducting the thread is not in good faith
We have. Last year's team really sucked too. And likely next year's. And whose fault might it be that we have a lack of talent?
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