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Pike-hating: so predictable and wrong.
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He said that because there was not enough NIL.
Please tell me you’re not really this dense.
Dylan doesn't need any help from the staff. His ability to get all the way to the rim is sick. He's a unicorn.
Has the staff done anything to help Ace? It's criminal. He does not have the ability to breakdown a defender and get to the rim. I'm not a fan of about a 1/3rd of his shots.
Pike = Schiano 2.0
Great program builder, shitty game coach.
His deficiencies are glaring this year due to the talent on the team.
We are doing nothing to help Ace. How many dunks did Caden Pierce get cutting to the basket? Henderson runs an offense that gets his best players lots of easy looks. All of Ace’s shots are difficult because we do nothing to free him up. No one from the NBA watching our games is looking at this and saying the problem is Ace.
The center market went crazy this offseason and we got priced out. FFS someone paid Cliff 1M think about that. Some of the scrubs left got like 500-750k we were not paying that, nor could we. Thats not on Pike. Thats on our fanbase for wanting luxury products on a Walmart budget as usual.
There is some truth to this but he's soft around the rim. He is starting to learn to attack under us I would argue. I have yet to see him drive to the hoop and throw down a dunk. He needs to play meaner on offense and throw it down.
You can't be this dumb
I agree the center market went crazy but I disagree we couldn't have done better if Pike pushed for it. If I am wrong correct me, but I thought the mods were aligned that the $$ was not the ultimate issue and Pike stood down, partly due to Lathan (another mistake).and partly due to stupidity. If $$ truly dictated that and this is the best roster we could have fielded, I guess I give up then, because this season was supposed to be 'the year', and it sucks just like most of them before it. There is.no payoff with Pike. It's just meh
Right now Ace isn’t the kind of player that can get to the basket from the 3 point line, where he typically gets the ball, and get all the way to the basket. What he can do, was a play from a couple of games ago, where he cut to the basket and Dylan got him the ball for an easy score. It is a play we should run at least 20 times a game, but we have barely done it since. There is basically no coaching going on when we are on offense.
Why? Rutgers is in “Big Ten” where is all of that Big Ten money going?
To Rutgers DEI initiatives?
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No thanks to our donor base. Thats my point. Too many people who give $50 a year $100 a year and wonder why we are trash in all sports.
There are 17 other schools in the BIG10 as well and we get a lot less money than them all even after being in the conference for 10 years.
And Revenue sharing hasn’t started yet. Teams haven’t been using conference $ to fill out rosters. NIL has been fueled by donors, small businesses and corporations….and Rutgers comes up when short compared to our peers.
The IQ of this board is insanely low sometimes.
Bringing in 2 of the top 3 recruits and not making it to the tourney?? That sinks his boat - just don't see him coming back from this.
You do realize Pike took over a horrific program? If you’re going to judge him you should probably exclude the first 3-4 years.
As per our prestigious former AD has stated, Rutgers is receiving a full share from the Big Ten Conference?
No we didn’t and nicely done ignoring the obvious point of my post in that schools weren’t using the BIG10 $ to pay players as of this year.
NIL was coming from donors, small businesses and corporations.
So the point you are trying to make in that we could have brought in a better center with BIG $ is a moronic one.
Man after the fight I had with you in the Williams thread I've found myself agreeing with almost everything you post. I don't know what my point is but... truce I guess?
Haha I was fired up after that loss and still would write the OP but probably went a bit too far in our exchanges. I also don’t care as much now that it’s clear we’re just not talented enough.
But anyways you’re a good poster and I wasn’t holding any grudges. It takes a village to converse with some of these dopes.
Just maybe Knight isn't so great? and he's not a great recruiter either. Outside of this year most every recruiting class has been sub par.
Amazing we come up short. We have as many billionaire graduates as any of them, and more than most of them.
I hated the Martini signing when it happened, and hate it even more now. He isn't a basketball player. He may look okay playing against the Ivy League generally where you don't have top level ballers, but against real basketball talent, he is not playable.
You’re back there next year! Coach has let the game pass him bye! Not worried I am pretty confident Pike walks away after this year. He realizes that he set a standard and has taken the program backward for 5 going on 6 years. His reputation with top recruits will be lost. Start looking for a new coach.
Won’t help a coach who has no clue what he’s doing. It’s actually become embarrassing on how bad he’s outcoached and how awful his lack of adjustments are.
The Lee Martini sequence with zero adjustments 4 plays in a row. Then Pike finally used a time out. We all said “ about fuc$;: time”.
He walks out of the time out with the same lineup ZERO adjustments. No smaller line up to take away the big iso, no zone to stop penetration, no hard double on the screen to get the ball out of Lee’s hands.
Pike time to go!
