Not much needs to be recapped.
The team shit the bed. Team came out flat, I thought the effort and hustle was not up to standard and all the good things they did to battle adversity in the MSU game and have a shot to win they did the opposite tonight. OSU is so much more improved and well coached. I thought they looked vulnerable in the first 10 minutes but then turned the jets on and RU was simply overwhelmed. OSU went on a 40-9 run from the midway point of the first half to midway point of the 2nd half. Folks, OSU is good but they are not 40-9 over 20 minutes on the road good. RU had the wheels come off in perhaps the worst 20 minutes ever under Pikiell.
I think Mensah actually played decent and gave pretty good effort.
Loss of Mike a major impact on a team with no leadership and even less offensive options, if he played it would not have made a difference but going forward I am more concerned about not having him in crunch time in close winnable games.
Riding the rollcoaster while we have a good coach but a team that is still the least talented in league and probably the worst shooting team in the league. If they do not give the full effort they will really really bad and thats what we had tonight and things snowballed. I know some will say they played hard but not me. They were dogging it late in the first half and into the 2nd half, some brutally bad defense and decision making on offense.
Kudos to crowd....7476 showed up, not loud because nothing to cheer for but shows the fanbase is willing and building again.
ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO BEAT IOWA.....Pike has to just erase this game from memory and motivate RU to beat Iowa which is one of the more winnable games on the schedule. No one is going to feel sorry for you in the Big 10 especially a team that also sits near the bottom of the standings and has generally looked awful all year. Iowa can shoot but they cannot play defense for a lick so RU cannot come with this same effort on offense and also Pike needs to start doing things to help this team on offense, what is being run now looks mechanical and very disjointed and there needs to be a conscience effort to get the ball to Thiam and Eugene more. RU is going to need to come out strong and make a statement and not let Iowa get comfortable jacking up 3s on the road.
The team shit the bed. Team came out flat, I thought the effort and hustle was not up to standard and all the good things they did to battle adversity in the MSU game and have a shot to win they did the opposite tonight. OSU is so much more improved and well coached. I thought they looked vulnerable in the first 10 minutes but then turned the jets on and RU was simply overwhelmed. OSU went on a 40-9 run from the midway point of the first half to midway point of the 2nd half. Folks, OSU is good but they are not 40-9 over 20 minutes on the road good. RU had the wheels come off in perhaps the worst 20 minutes ever under Pikiell.
I think Mensah actually played decent and gave pretty good effort.
Loss of Mike a major impact on a team with no leadership and even less offensive options, if he played it would not have made a difference but going forward I am more concerned about not having him in crunch time in close winnable games.
Riding the rollcoaster while we have a good coach but a team that is still the least talented in league and probably the worst shooting team in the league. If they do not give the full effort they will really really bad and thats what we had tonight and things snowballed. I know some will say they played hard but not me. They were dogging it late in the first half and into the 2nd half, some brutally bad defense and decision making on offense.
Kudos to crowd....7476 showed up, not loud because nothing to cheer for but shows the fanbase is willing and building again.
ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO BEAT IOWA.....Pike has to just erase this game from memory and motivate RU to beat Iowa which is one of the more winnable games on the schedule. No one is going to feel sorry for you in the Big 10 especially a team that also sits near the bottom of the standings and has generally looked awful all year. Iowa can shoot but they cannot play defense for a lick so RU cannot come with this same effort on offense and also Pike needs to start doing things to help this team on offense, what is being run now looks mechanical and very disjointed and there needs to be a conscience effort to get the ball to Thiam and Eugene more. RU is going to need to come out strong and make a statement and not let Iowa get comfortable jacking up 3s on the road.