Basketball INSTANT REACTION: Rutgers Basketball falls to Minnesota 81-70

[RUTrack94]

Good luck guys … one of those halves where nothing goes right. Purdue lost to OSU so you know they’ll be fired up. Enough time left for the upset, but did we really expect RU to win 5 conference games in a row?

 

[RAC93]

Bad, bad, bad defense, too much passive offense play from Jeremiah Williams, too much Simpson and JMike

 

[FrankZ]

No hope of a 3 from anyone

 

[RU Mike73]

That should have been rutgers ball. Hit the minny player standing out of bounds

Nope, hit the basket support.

 

[Scangg]

There is a ton of time left

 

[RUJMM78]

Teams that have high scoring offenses are bad matchups for Rutgers.

 

[tm_nj]

they must have scouted the heck out of us and took us very seriously

 

[greenknight]

They have 4 different Bigs manhandling our 1

 

[FIJI'83]

Hopefully we have a run in us. to do that somebody needs to get hot

 

[RU848789]

Game not over yet.

 

[rufeelinit]

First half must have been a mirage.

Not a style of game that we can win with our offense.

 

[Rutgers25]

Griffith is horrible. The delta between his performance and ranking is staggering.

 

[rucoe89]

Minny showing significantly more athleticism than Rutgers so far this half

 

[FrankZ]

Shocking ref nod. Up 3-6 in foul calls. Meaningless down 10

 

[rufeelinit]

Game not over yet.

Problem is their extending with Payne on the bench

 

[RutgersClassof2004]

Griffiths as a 4/5...talk about a blown call.

 

[Scarlet Blind]

Where's the tech on Hawkins?

 

[RAC93]

There is a ton of time left

Agreed, but without stops Minny is going to score 80……this defense has been awful today

 

[FmrMgrRU]

At this point in the season Gavin shouldn’t look this lost on the offensive end at least. What’s the deal?

 

[RUby RED]

Griffith is horrible. The delta between his performance and ranking is staggering.

He has 2 points in his last 60 mins of floor time. Inexcusable to play him, especially with how much of a defensive liability he remains

 

[FIJI'83]

I know he's a freshman, but he's been horrendous all season

To not be descriptively inappropriate, let’s say he plays like a kitten.

 

[rucoe89]

Griffith is horrible. The delta between his performance and ranking is staggering.

Barely resembles a Colonial League level player

 

[BigEastPhil]

We were up 29-22 at one point.

 

[bac2therac]

outscored 34-17 was 34-15 in last 16 minutes

 

[RUDeac]

Where is Austin Williams?

 

[greenknight]

Teams that have high scoring offenses are bad matchups for Rutgers.

They are outplaying us on defense that's the problem. They are playing faster & more disciplined. We are chasing the ball all over the place

 

[Zak57]

Had to miss the first half unfortunately so have game on now. The announcers are awful and the reffing not much better.

 

[RutgersChow]

Wolf, Noah, and unfortunately Gavin, are currently unplayable.

 

[mikeyo]

They have 4 different Bigs manhandling our 1

We don't have enough depth to respond to that problem

 

[RUIvyKnight20]

Jwill needs to take over, drive and dish

 

[RutgersClassof2004]

Griffith is horrible. The delta between his performance and ranking is staggering.

It really is. Biggest miss I can ever recall. Just play Palm.

 

[RU Mike73]

We need a run, if we have one in us.

 

[RUIvyKnight20]

At this point in the season Gavin shouldn’t look this lost on the offensive end at least. What’s the deal?

He’s not good.

 

[RedTeam1994]

The commentators are really annoying

EVERYTHING is about Minny… and this was before this run

When they have the ball it’s about what Minny should do/ did

When we have the ball it’s all about what Minny needs to do on defense

Every damn possession!!!!

 

[FrankZ]

My GG comments have basically been ‘Get him out’. Palm earned his minutes tonight

 

[SBP]

Their Freshman is LIGHT YEARS ahead of Gavin. Ridiculous

 

[mikeyo]

Griffith is horrible. The delta between his performance and ranking is staggering.

Yep. Plays like a walk-on most of the time

 

[Scangg]

Not sure why we got away from feeding Cliff in the post when he was unstoppable first half

 

[greenknight]

Man was I wrong about him. Meanwhile look at Minnesotas freshman lighting it up.

Griffiths needs to do something other than score to help this team to win. He needs to start grabbing boards & toughen up his defense

 

[Degaz-RU]

We need to be saved … by Oskar