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Basketball Rutgers Basketball runs out of magic, drops heartbreaker to Princeton

Coaching failure on all levels to this point in every game in every phase of the game in every phase of on and off court coaching.
Pike has to go!
 
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Please stop nothing to do with that

Of course not. But in general, I never like when very clear errors evident on video review are the actual game margin difference. Even if it went our way, I’d strongly prefer to win by a point more than the error margin.
 
We were doing very well with Ogbole, he blocks shots and they couldn’t stop him. I don’t get it
Pike will take him out as soon as starts playing well. We get killed inside the rest of the game.
 
Pikiell being exposed as a huge fraud. Constantly outcoached. It's still December and the season is over. Why do we ever expect any different from this school?
Good thing Hobbs is gone or Puke would be signing another extension tonight.
 
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5 out of 6 yet some fans love this game
We tried explaining this a couple days ago to the 1 fan in the Bama/North Dakota game. But apparently it has rich tradition. Good thing we scheduled it. I hope everyone who advocated for this game is happy

I was also called “thick” by said fan. Our schedule making is hilariously bad. No words. We have the answers to the test ( meaning what the committee looks for OOC wise) yet we keep shooting ourselves in the foot
 
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Entertaining game but a really bad loss to an average Princeton team. Lee and Pierce were the best players on the court and PU coach ran circles around Pike. Until they rebound the ball and play defense, every game will be like this.
 
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It’s on rebounding. We’re awful.
But that's the whole team. Think we are more concerned with getting a couple players pts and less concerned about playing defense. Need to play less AAU & more. Basketball as a whole has gone a really bad direction everything 1V1 and zero zone. Cant just play man d. If you are overmatched by size or speed you flip to zone
 
Entertaining game but a really bad loss to an average Princeton team. Lee and Pierce were the best players on the court and PU coach ran circles around Pike. Until they rebound the ball and play defense, every game will be like this.
Someone needs to explain to me how Princeton can find a guy like Pierce but we can’t. We’re awful. Give me Mitch Henderson as a coach. Man, he’s good
 
Are the rest of the games and season pointless? It sure feels that way.
 
Pikiell being exposed as a huge fraud. Constantly outcoached. It's still December and the season is over. Why do we ever expect any different from this school?

It’s recruiting more than game day coaching. We don’t have anyone to rebound the ball. Full stop. But recruiting is part of a coaches’ job.
 
Someone needs to explain to me how Princeton can find a guy like Pierce but we can’t. We’re awful. Give me Mitch Henderson as a coach. Man, he’s good
He would be a non factor like Martini if he was on RU. He thrives in that offense with a PG like Lee
 
It’s recruiting more than game day coaching. We don’t have anyone to rebound the ball. Full stop. But recruiting is part of a coaches’ job.
Ogbole is our best rebounder and inside defender and he's on the bench as we get killed in the paint.
 
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But that's the whole team. Think we are more concerned with getting a couple players pts and less concerned about playing defense. Need to play less AAU & more. Basketball as a whole has gone a really bad direction everything 1V1 and zero zone. Cant just play man d. If you are overmatched by size or speed you flip to zone
If the zone’d Princeton they would have got killed by three ball plus the rebounding would be even more atrocious
 
Their best player backs down for an easy layup…how??? Where is help defense?

Awful coaching has destroyed us
How? When you recruit a player from a SOFT ass conference like the NEC. And you can’t double team because a team like princeton will always find the open guy for three.
 
Entertaining game but a really bad loss to an average Princeton team. Lee and Pierce were the best players on the court and PU coach ran circles around Pike. Until they rebound the ball and play defense, every game will be like this.
Nothing about this was entertaining, it was infuriating with the lack of anything on the defensive end and poor shot selections
 
I seriously hate this “rivalry” game. Another lose
lose scheduling decision. PU owns them and runs circles in terms of coaching. RU always expected to win yet anyone who didn’t see a loss
coming was kidding themselves. Rinse and repeat every year.
 
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Just pisses me off when we have fans that just settle for mediocrity bc our history has been so bad.

Any coach could win with two NBA players except ours.

We don’t have a president or AD to even hold Pike accountable. This entire school is ****ed up
That is the "Rutgers Way". Started with Fred Grunninger and Ed Bloustein.
 
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