Lazy, uninspired, and unfocused today. PSU didn't do anything to us. We did it to ourselves.

[DennisHajekRC84]

Looks like (to me and the mrs.) that much of the team chemistry we saw early on is wearing off.

First home game in league against PSU ..I would have bet $$ we'd have played hard as hell. That wasn't much of an effort.

 

[BobRC72]

Looks like (to me and the mrs.) that much of the team chemistry we saw early on is wearing off.

First home game in league against PSU ..I would have bet $$ we'd have played hard as hell. That wasn't much of an effort.

Agree, but Penn State also has more talent, IMO.

 

[shields]

Penn State can shoot the ball.

 

[Plum Street]

We are same old Rutgers. The results will change when we get better players .

 

[RC1978]

You could have wrote the story the first 10 minutes of the game. Any team that has any capability to make a basket would have been up by 15 the way PS was shooting and giving the ball away.

It is real simple, we can not put the ball through the hoop. Three pointers, nope, 10 footer nope, 2 footer nope nope nope nope.

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

Can't shoot at all, even easy layups around the hoop.

 

[bac2therac]

agree...lack of focus, effort and intensity from the beginning. Penn State is not good, if they are good then what are the other 12 schools in the Big 10.

 

[shields]

i saw Penn State vs the Johnnies when they made probably 13 or 14 threes. They shoot the ball better than RU.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

Lazy and uninspired...not in the game I saw.

 

[ColonelRutgers]

Just because we lost doesn't mean we were lazy and uninspired. No one on the team can shoot from any range and when you're out of sync and turning it over a bunch of times, you're going to lose. That's not lazy and uninspired that's just bad offense. And as poorly as Corey has been playing, Nigel has shown that he's not a point guard and he was on the floor for that poor offensive start. The effort was there on the defensive end. As horrible as we started the game on offense, Penn State weren't getting any easy baskets. They started off something like 0-12. We just sucked - lazy has nothing to do with it.

 

[Caliknight]

They gave good effort on D. They weren't lazy. D is an area you can compete no matter your talent level.

O is a different story. That takes skill and cohesion. We don't have any of that on the offensive end.

Getting more skilled basketball players is the only way out of this.

 

[bac2therac]

Lazy and uninspired...not in the game I saw.

hmm you didnt think they came out flat...how about 2nd half....14-0 run by PSU, turnovers, lazy passes, bad decisions on offense without focus, they didnt work hard like the teams we saw earlier at the RAC

 

[ColonelRutgers]

hmm you didnt think they came out flat...how about 2nd half....14-0 run by PSU, turnovers, lazy passes, bad decisions on offense without focus, they didnt work hard like the teams we saw earlier at the RAC

They came out bad. Flat had nothing to do with it. Nigel started that second half and Mike Williams started rather than coming off the bench where he has flourished. That had more to do with bad offense than focus. Nigel is not a point guard and that was painfully obvious at the start of the second half. We have no scorers. And Penn State is a Big Ten team, they are going to have more guys capable of going on a 14-0 than Central Connecticut State.

 

[G- RUnit]

We played good D. You only give up 60, you usually have a good shot at a win.

 

[Greene Rice FIG]

We gave up 60 points in 72 possessions. In 15 games where do you think this game ranked for Penn State in offensive efficiency?

15 out of 15.

We competed real hard, we were just tragically bad on offense.

 

[RUJMM78]

They came out bad. Flat had nothing to do with it. Nigel started that second half and Mike Williams started rather than coming off the bench where he has flourished. That had more to do with bad offense than focus. Nigel is not a point guard and that was painfully obvious at the start of the second half. We have no scorers. And Penn State is a Big Ten team, they are going to have more guys capable of going on a 14-0 than Central Connecticut State.

Coach Pikiell stated the obvious when he said "can't win if you can't score".The coaching staff and fans know the offense is a problem but correcting the problem probably won't happen until a couple years from now when some shooters are on the floor.

 

[PatrickRU92]

teams that can't score ALWAYS look bad. I've said that same thing for years. We look less bad this year.

 

[nikoru09]

hope, the negative nellies don't start blaming the coaching staff....dean smith would have problems with a team who cant shoot (cant believe I'm saying that)really. only Rutgers cant find a way to put the ball through the hoop..how friggin frustrating is that
geesh...layups, short jumpers, put backs, you name it ,will miss it.....please hurry, geo baker we need you, but of course when you get here you'll be missing open shots too.
so now, I'm the negative Nellie...being a Rutgers supporter is one of the most nerve racking things a sports fan can be....no wonder the rest of the big conference people
are cocky, and arrogant. they can be...we cant, and maybe sometimes that's a good
thing....maybe one day, we'll be that way...until then, stay humble, and pray

 

[Fzacsattac]

Ho-hum!!! Next!!!

 

[DennisHajekRC84]

hmm you didnt think they came out flat...how about 2nd half....14-0 run by PSU, turnovers, lazy passes, bad decisions on offense without focus, they didnt work hard like the teams we saw earlier at the RAC

exactly.

You think that crowd today wasn't just ready to explode with support? Even without the shooting..if they had played hard intense ball the place would have come alive. And maybe it would have converted to the offense and create some energy and flow.

Steals? Blocked shoots? Controlling the boards? How hard you play has nothing to do with who you play. Sorry..I saw PSU at the garden too and they aren't anything special...

 

[goru7]

We shot 29%, 15% from 3, and 62% from the foul line. Not sure why we don't face more zone D.

Because teams have scouted our man offense and they are controlling our guards, and our turnovers and lack of spacing are making it easy to defend us. We actually were doing a good job against zones we saw, passing to the wings for open looks and for high/ lows.

 

[S_Janowski]

The effort was there today on D but not at the same level it has been for most of the season so lazy and uninspired may be a bit harsh. I would say there was a lack of focus throughout the ballgame though with bad turnovers and lapses in D.

 

[willisneverrana43]

Looks like (to me and the mrs.) that much of the team chemistry we saw early on is wearing off.

First home game in league against PSU ..I would have bet $$ we'd have played hard as hell. That wasn't much of an effort.

Funny coincidence how the team does this to itself only when the completion, which you say had nothing to do with it, steps up a level.

 

[ScarletLongIsland]

The offense was lazy and uninspired. It was the most atrocious display of passing I have seen in years. How many passes sailed over guys' heads or into traffic?!?!

And psu is a horrible team. Psu loses by 30 to wisky yesterday. That's how bad we were.

Sorry but I blame the coaches also for this performance.

Must have been one hell of party that the players went to on NYE.

 

[rudad02]

As I said in another post, they had their heads up their asses. Sometimes team's do that & it's often hard to figure why.

 

[TDIrish27]

Agree with most who didn't see a lack of effort-----I thought RU played hard.

They just didn't play well---------that's the big difference in this team between this year and last year.

You have to be patient and that's hard but this is a total rebuild from the ground up.

 

[RC85]

Not giving up on this team. They play hard on D and battle under the boards. Offense can improve-it usually takes time for new players to gel, and since Freeman was injured almost all last year the only guys with a year under their belts playing together are the guards Sanders and Williams. Coaching staff is strong and will keep the team focused and learning to play together against this higher level of competition.

 

[DennisHajekRC84]

I'm not giving up on them at all. As OTB pointed out..time to #Free COREY. Also be more dedicated to go thru CJ..not just for of possessions (which worked) then revert to free form ball. CJ can pass and help set up the movement.

Not at all talented to play one on one game. It was there earlier in the year and again, PSU didn't t it away from us. Guys were shooting the 3's with their bodies turned away from square AKA Bishop Daniels. Sa needs to stay under the basket and not become 2015-16 Kadeem Jack.

Just a throw away game that shouldn't have been.

 

[zebnatto]

I didn't see lazy, uninspired, unfocused. I saw a team out-talented--by a small margin--and one that couldn't get the ball in the basket. I'd bet that if you look at out 3s they majority, if not almost all, were deep in the shot clock. Corey, esp, seems to have lost confidence in his shot.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

I thought you were talking about me.