So your complaining about Caleb and Cliff taking th shots and having a great first half. You normally complain about Rutgers not scoring 65 or 70. Well Wake and Bucknell got us to 81 and 85 without great 3 point shooting. We did have really good shooting period 59% and 49 % and great foul shooting , which I would tell you is even more important than 3 point shooting . Stop you repetitive narratives that look ridiculous when they do not pan out. Every game is different , home different than road , there is no set formula. Our elite defense will give us a chance to win every remaining game. Enjoy this team since it appears we have something special that we have not see in a long time.
GAME 12 BUCKNELL: Taking Care of Business
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Get real. We have an elite defense that is # 3 in the country not just a run of the mill good defense . We have a Press we have not seen since the Final Four team. We are now getting healthy . Our offense and shooting and foul shooting is pretty good and not a red flag. 3 point shooting although we have a number of guys who can shoot it okay has not materialized yet. There will not be any nightmare matchups against Us because of how versatile our roster is. I like our chances to finish at the top of the BIG 10 which will likely assure us a higher seed and much better odds of getting to the Sweet16 and Beyond. You love to mention that we doing this to an inferior opponent. We have demolished every inferior opponent mostly by 30 points . When is the last time a Rutgers team or any team in the country done that ? Looks like you need to get perspective.
The best Rutgers teams in history were pressing teams. Maybe this will become another
I forgot about that. I think xander Rice was the player that looked like Billy Joe from Green Day
I need to get real.? I complemented the defense and you feel good that we are going to win the conference. Pump the brakes!
On the bright side - we may not be a good shooting team, but it doesn’t look like stacking the box would be an effective strategy to shut us down. Caleb and Paul are just way too comfortable navigating the offense without deliberate on ball pressure.
Shot selection is based on what the defense gives you. Caleb only missed one shot attempt in the whole first half. Cliff slammed home the offensive rebound on that miss for the put back.
The defense is really good. Only Temple has broken 70 so far and that was without Caleb. Can’t really take anything away from that game about our team without him and Paul.
The offense has been “good enough” in every game except Seton Hall where we laid a relative egg. We haven’t been as bad offensively in any other game - not even Temple. We were good enough to beat OSU - the refs messed that up.
We lost the Miami game - not because we couldn’t find enough offense - but because down the stretch it was simply too much to ask of Caleb in his first real game back from injury (CC doesn’t really count) to not only play 35 minutes and maintain his defensive intensity but also run the point the whole time. His 5 turnovers in the game reflect this as does us blowing a double digit lead with under 13 minutes to go in the game.
I beg to differ about the offense against Temple, We were bad particularly in the first half. Outside of perhaps Purdue, there seems to be a lot of parity in the conference this year. I think we have a chance to have a good season and possibly make the tournament but so do a lot of other teams. Defense travels well so we should be in most games.
That’s why there are two halves in a game. 66 points would have been more than enough offense in that game with Caleb playing defense or even just without us gifting them a bunch of early baskets off on turnovers.
I thing I did notice from the game and no one has brought up. The last offensive possession of the 1st half. We saw something very familiar. Was @Geo_Baker_1 at practice working with his number sake on a certain signature move?
Our offense was horrific vs Miami the last 8 minutes
5 points in 8 minutes..2fgs and no shot attempts from Cliff
It’s ok to be impressed with both at the same time. It’s nice knowing we don’t lose much when they enter the game. Pleasure watching they grow game by game. They will be vital come tournament time.
And to think we had to endure the incessant posts from star watchers that our recruiting stunk.
Pike knows absolutely what he is doing.
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Watching it live, it seemed to me that we ran out of gas on both ends. Caleb was navigating the ship that got us the lead that we blew (he did a pretty good job considering he hadn’t played much point in years and was still finding his legs). But
the kid just didn’t have enough in the tank yet to see it through for 35 minutes.
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