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Basketball GAMEDAY THREAD: Rutgers Basketball versus Alabama

The positive is that Rutgers is tied with Alabama at half time.The negative is the lack of 3 point scoring by Rutgers which will be a problem because Alabama takes so many 3 pointers.Bailey and Harper have scored 25 points in the first half.
 
DH and AB with ~60% of our points. I approve. Scoring should be mostly done by the best scorers.

Halftime studio guys very complimentary to RU and the dynamic duo, but also did a nice job comparing Ace's much improved game tonight vs. his meh play in the last 2. I'm ok with that as it's true.
 
Not winning this game unless we can hit some threes. Bama is not going to have 11 TOs again in the 2nd half like they did in the 1st half.
 
This first half is exactly why you have to try not to overreact to one game (which is quite hard to do).

Watching the Houston-Alabama game then the RU-ND game (and KSU game for that matter), you almost feel like they’re playing in different stratospheres of skill levels… like different sports even. Then RU plays Alabama and they absolutely belong on the same court.

The definition of “games take on personalities of their own” and teams can look very different night to night.
 
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Not winning this game unless we can hit some threes. Bama is not going to have 11 TOs again in the 2nd half like they did in the 1st half.
Would like to know which assistant coach had scoring responsibility for this one. Doing very well on defensive end. You can see us jump out at the 3pt line on all bama penetration and Bamas just absolute refusal to take a floater or jump stop in the lane just has them dribling behind the rim or swinging it back around.

Also great adjustment defensively by pike half way through to start pressing and try to slow pace.
 
Would like to know which assistant coach had scoring responsibility for this one. Doing very well on defensive end. You can see us jump out at the 3pt line on all bama penetration and Bamas just absolute refusal to take a floater or jump stop in the lane just has them dribling behind the rim or swinging it back around.

Also great adjustment defensively by pike half way through to start pressing and try to slow pace.
Then Bailey leaves his man after a great possession of letting sears drive to nowhere
 
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