Honest Appraisal: Rutgers Basketball looks and feels like a BIG 10-seed at best.

[RCBeta79]

Honest Appraisal: Rutgers Basketball looks and feels like a BIG 10-seed at best.

We have trouble with mid-range jumpers, finishing layups, along with poor foul shooting and lack of adequate rebounding.
Lack of a consistent offense is our Achilles heel this year.

 

[RUsojo]

Get to .500 and move on to next year. Everyone’s inclination seeing this team will at first thought be the is a red alert indicator for the program without the context of next seasons outlook but the best thing for us all will be to only think about next year lol

 

[fluoxetine]

Get to .500 and move on to next year. Everyone’s inclination seeing this team will at first thought be the is a red alert indicator for the program without the context of next seasons outlook but the best thing for us all will be to only think about next year lol

I don’t think it’s a red alert anything.

I think Pike actually took some criticism on board and sacrificed some of his principles in an effort to create a better offense. And mostly he just ended up with a worse defense and completely incompetent rebounding. The team is not good but it doesn’t need to indicate anything about the program.

Plus they aren’t always going to look as bad as today.. sometimes Cliff will do something and Simpson won’t brick every single shot etc

 

[Westcoast]

Simpson just is not a B1G player. His recruiting ranking is showing to be accurate.
He is a complete liability on offense. He should have the red light on any shot outside of an uncontested breakaway layup.

 

[RUsojo]

I don’t think it’s a red alert anything.

I think Pike actually took some criticism on board and sacrificed some of his principles in an effort to create a better offense. And mostly he just ended up with a worse defense and completely incompetent rebounding. The team is not good but it doesn’t need to indicate anything about the program.

Plus they aren’t always going to look as bad as today.. sometimes Cliff will do something and Simpson won’t brick every single shot etc

What principles has he sacrificed?

 

[bac2therac]

10 seed is generous...Rutgers will be playing on the first day in big 10 tourney

 

[shields]

Miss State is 6-0 in neutral site games. They are better.

 

[bac2therac]

Simpson just is not a B1G player. His recruiting ranking is showing to be accurate.
He is a complete liability on offense. He should have the red light on any shot outside of an uncontested breakaway layup.

Nailed it

Compounding the issue is Wolf is role player and Pike didnt recruit a legit 4/5 backup and Cliff is vastly overrated

A lot of role players. Oskar not for this level

 

[RUby RED]

Simpson just is not a B1G player. His recruiting ranking is showing to be accurate.
He is a complete liability on offense. He should have the red light on any shot outside of an uncontested breakaway layup.

Simpson can play a role in the Big Ten as an 8th or 9th man who gets <10 mins / game, defends well and plays within himself on offense

But yeah…looking more and more like another recruiting miss. Program was built on size and toughness and Simpson just doesn’t fit the mold. Sub-35% shooters who are undersized don’t play starters minutes on winning teams

 

[Mr Magoo]

Honest Appraisal: Rutgers Basketball looks and feels like a BIG 10-seed at best.

We have trouble with mid-range jumpers, finishing layups, along with poor foul shooting and lack of adequate rebounding.
Lack of a consistent offense is our Achilles heel this year.

I’ve seen every B1G team play and I’m honestly not sure who is worse than us.

 

[jerseybird]

Miss State is 6-0 in neutral site games. They are better.

They had better ball movement for their shots.

 

[shields]

Simpson needs 10 lbs more. Too thin.

 

[Nycrusupporter]

Unfortunately our shooting woes and awful rebounding are unlikely to be fixed this year. We will win a couple of games that no one expects, but we will also struggle a lot. 10th seed may be generous at this point. We don’t have a single good win yet this season.

 

[Degaz-RU]

10 seed is generous...Rutgers will be playing on the first day in big 10 tourney

Agreed. We would be LUCKY to avoid the bottom 4 at this point.

 

[RUfromNJ]

13-17 (5-15)

 

[bac2therac]

Unfortunately our shooting woes and awful rebounding are unlikely to be fixed this year. We will win a couple of games that no one expects, but we will also struggle a lot. 10th seed may be generous at this point. We don’t have a single good win yet this season.

Shu is decent but not a tourney team

I still contend playing sistersxof the poor at the rac is a fools errand

 

[RAC93]

Honest Appraisal: Rutgers Basketball looks and feels like a BIG 10-seed at best.

We have trouble with mid-range jumpers, finishing layups, along with poor foul shooting and lack of adequate rebounding.
Lack of a consistent offense is our Achilles heel this year.

I think they’re even lower, probably bottom 4. No idea how they beat Seton Hall.

 

[bac2therac]

12-19/13-18 seems like a good bet

4-5 big 10 wins

Starting to get a bigger sample size...4 decent teams...3 ncaa teams beat RU soundly and a win against an ok but not great shu

 

[bac2therac]

I think they’re even lower, probably bottom 4. No idea how they beat Seton Hall.

They had a horrible shooting night and ru played very good and shot way over their head on 3s

 

[bitnez]

Shu is decent but not a tourney team

I still contend playing sistersxof the poor at the rac is a fools errand

Will be interesting to see what happens this year between SHU and RU. They went on the road, got kicked in the teeth a bunch, and seem to have found something. We played an easy soft schedule at home and look largely unprepared heading into B1G season.

 

[RUskoolie]

The Princeton game said it all tbh.

You will see some fools gold here and there but my goal for this year is .500

We are pretty bad in multiple areas.

 

[RUskoolie]

Will be interesting to see what happens this year between SHU and RU. They went on the road, got locked in the teeth a bunch, and seem to have found something. We played an easy soft schedule at home and look largely unprepared heading into B1G season.

Thank God for that soft schedule or I question if we would win 15 games this season.

 

[fluoxetine]

What principles has he sacrificed?

Guard length.

Also he had to know this group would have rebounding issues.

 

[FastMJ]

Cliff has become slow and lazy

 

[bitnez]

Thank God for that soft schedule or I question if we would win 15 games this season.

I get that but it looks like Pike is still figuring out this team and that’s what happens when everyone looks good against bad teams.

 

[JudgeSmails56]

We aren’t good this year.. we don’t ha e the talent,, it is what it is.

 

[bac2therac]

Will be interesting to see what happens this year between SHU and RU. They went on the road, got kicked in the teeth a bunch, and seem to have found something. We played an easy soft schedule at home and look largely unprepared heading into B1G season.

Toughened up with strong scheduling pays off

 

[bac2therac]

Thank God for that soft schedule or I question if we would win 15 games this season.

I dont see 15 wins

 

[RUJMM78]

I’ve seen every B1G team play and I’m honestly not sure who is worse than us.

Maryland and Illinois had compelling wins yesterday defeating UCLA and Missouri on their home courts.I think it will be very difficult for this Rutgers team to win a league road game with such a woeful offense.

 

[RUskoolie]

I dont see 15 wins

I'm trying to be nice but typing out 12 sounded Eddie Jordan level to me.

 

[fluoxetine]

I think 15 is more likely than 12.

 

[RUJMM78]

I think 15 is more likely than 12.

To reach 15 wins Rutgers will need to win seven B1G Ten games .I don't see them winning one road game. Playing at the RAC has shown a downward trend in winning league games starting at the end of last season followed by the loss to Illinois this season.Poor rebounding and abysmal shooting results in losses wherever the games are played.

 

[fluoxetine]

To reach 15 wins Rutgers will need to win seven B1G Ten games .I don't see them winning one road game. Playing at the RAC has shown a downward trend in winning league games starting at the end of last season followed by the loss to Illinois this season.Poor rebounding and abysmal shooting results in losses wherever the games are played.

Ok. They’ll win a road game. They’ll shoot well sometimes. Rebounding will be a problem all season.

 

[RU-ROCS]

Shu is decent but not a tourney team

I still contend playing sistersxof the poor at the rac is a fools errand

Agreed. That and playing 3 games in 3 weeks is nuts! The long layoffs between games cannot be helping the offense. Terrible scheduling all around.

 

[runner3283]

They had better ball movement for their shots.

We lost to a team that didn’t score for a 10 minute period in the first half. I can’t wrap my head around this we couldn’t take advantage at all.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

To reach 15 wins Rutgers will need to win seven B1G Ten games .I don't see them winning one road game. Playing at the RAC has shown a downward trend in winning league games starting at the end of last season followed by the loss to Illinois this season.Poor rebounding and abysmal shooting results in losses wherever the games are played.

We suck. A lot of teams suck on bad days. You will be surprised that we win a few games we dont expect and lose a bunch you hope we dont

 

[RAC93]

I’ve seen every B1G team play and I’m honestly not sure who is worse than us.

Penn State I think is legit worse, but that might be the only one.

 

[chiphi80]

A lot of really stupid comments here. The negatoids are in full force. We lost to a 9-2 team that was top 25 and played 6 neutral site games. Give it a break. Most of you have clearly not been athletes in college, and probably not even in HS.

 

[Luvscarletknights]

Miss State is 6-0 in neutral site games. They are better.

They were ranked when season started. We played bad, got crappy calls and still only lost by 10 when our center has 3 points, 5 fouls, and 0 rebounds.

 

[bac2therac]

We suck. A lot of teams suck on bad days. You will be surprised that we win a few games we dont expect and lose a bunch you hope we dont

We play Tominagas 2x