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Basketball INSTANT REACTION: Rutgers Basketball falls to No. 24 Illinois 76-58

Davis sucks driving at 6’1” and getting every one blocked
Where’s Williams he personally brought us back in the first half
 
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pike has got to change to the starting lineup. every game we get out to a slow start and now it hurt us in both halves today. can’t do that in big ten play. gavin has to start for wolfork even know i think wolfork is playing better than cliff. we are just too limited offensively and teams can pack it in. Gavin has to start and we have to run him off screens and have him setting screens for others. This will open up other players. It’s time
 
pike has got to change to the starting lineup. every game we get out to a slow start and now it hurt us in both halves today. can’t do that in big ten play. gavin has to start for wolfork even know i think wolfork is playing better than cliff. we are just too limited offensively and teams can pack it in. Gavin has to start and we have to run him off screens and have him setting screens for others. This will open up other players. It’s time
Pike thinks it’s the 1980s starting two bigs who can’t shoot together. Must be so Hyatt can take 15 shots a game.
 
Pike has had plenty of time to strategize without Mag

Have to plow on and assume he isnt xxv oming back
I honestly don’t think he is. He was cleared I believe seven weeks ago. St. Peter’s would have been the perfect game to get his legs under him and then play a bigger role this game. By the time January comes we may be out of any chance for a bid.
 
If Pike pulls this team together by February, he deserves coach of the year. Totally undiscipined offense. weak rebounding. horrible shot selection, weak finishing.

I think this team is good so I'll give defense a pass
 
Ace and Dylan are a career saver for Pike. He’ll clearly never be able to run an offensive system, so he either needs elite offensive/defensive talent. Player development and scheming to win games isn’t going to happen.
 
They said 4th game in a row that IL had 50+ rebounds.
Only game I’ve seen them play this season, so I can’t say how good they are in general. But they were good in the first half, and extraordinarily good in the second half. If they can match that second half performance regularly, they will do very well this season.

RU has some work to do for sure. But I’m not writing them off based on this game.
 
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With the football team going out with a whimper to end the season, I figured “Hey, at least I can watch our MBB team now that they are good…”

Oh well, I guess I can look forward to soccer season…
 
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