He'd benefit from NBA coaching more. He won't get any better here.
Basketball Rutgers Basketball suffers 81-74 loss to No. 8 Michigan State at MSG
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Martini has lost all confidence
It's crazy neither he nor Hayes has been able to be an impact 3 point shooter for this team
If Hayes gets 5 open looks from 3...
Pike did some coaching at the end.
The current iteration of the program is a fail.
Rutgers is cursed, we have one of the best players in college bball for 1 year and we get and injury/flu plagued version.
Playing in the garden brought us nothing,
Does Martini make those shots at the Rac, the guy who started the bench Jordan D. Thread looks a little foolish now.
Don’t think there has ever been in Rutgers history a call for a benching followed by a player scoring 27 points on the 18th ranked team in the country
The current iteration of the program is a fail.
Rutgers is cursed, we have one of the best players in college bball for 1 year and we get and injury/flu plagued version.
Playing in the garden brought us nothing,
Does Martini make those shots at the Rac, the guy who started the bench Jordan D. Thread looks a little foolish now.
Don’t think there has ever been in Rutgers history a call for a benching followed by a player scoring 27 points on the 18th ranked team in the country
Stop, this team does not execute winning basketball. They could easily have beaten Kennesaw, easily beaten Bama, easily beaten Princeton, easily beaten A&M, easily beaten PSU on the road…..but they didn’t……good teams win, bad teams find ways to lose. These guys find ways to lose, they are 6-10 in their last 16 games. They are not a good team.
I know it's the Garden and you want him to get some burn in front of every NBA scout in the world...but his 7 or 8 minutes just set him back a week. That was a bad sprain zero business on court.
LOL sure maybe Derkack's breakout game goes for 20 in that hypothetical. Does a healthy Harper still not get 18, 19 and open up Ace for a few more baskets? Harper is also better on D than any of R guards.
Somerville certainly doesn't play up to his size. Can't overpower even smaller players, doesn't have a good dunking ability and shoots poorly from outside.
Pike needs to go drastic play full court D whole game. Problem is these guys commit alot of dumb fouls and cant do so
He'd have helped defensively, but he's still struggling badly against Q1/Q2 programs
They have both been horrendous in virtually every game this season. At some point, maybe we just need to acknowledge they aren't B1G caliber players and this is the best they can do.
I get it, but we weren't exactly blowing out bad teams when he was healthy
Rutgers Basketball suffers 81-74 loss to No. 8 Michigan State at MSG
Rutgers Basketball falls to No. 8 Michigan State 81-74 at Madison Square Garden.
What color is the sky in your world?
It’s mind boggling to me he’s a top 3 pick. Just don’t see it
In no way does Derkack go for 20 if Harper is 100%. Just my opinion. You’re entitled to yours. Of course I’d rather have Dylan at 100%, but when we did we still lost close to good teams. And he wasn’t even just good he was out of his mind good. My point is the rest of the roster isn’t good enough to win big boy games. It’s a team sport and we have to stop making excuses. It’s a poor roster overall.
Simply horrendous halfcourt offense. The 3 point shooting was horrendous .Bailey had a poor shooting effort and Harper spent most of the game on the bench with the inured ankle.Kudos to Durkack for a outstanding game scoring 26 points.Michigan State did their thing with the curl offense creating and making close range shots to the basket or getting fouled.This was a winnable game if Rutgers had a healthy Harper ,Martini made some 3 pointers and Bailey made some second half baskets.Bottom line the team has very little chance of winning without 40 points from Bailey and Harper.Bailey is really being challenged with double teams with Harper not playing.Great crowd at MSG but just another loss away from the RAC.
You seek delusional. Just checking on you. Enjoy those national championships we have won though. Good times.
No argument about the roster--I've been barking about that since early December.
Here in is the problem with people on this site....you are NOT winning with 2 players. There are more than 2 players on this team we just choose to dictate that only 2 players should be taking 80% of shots while everyone else just plays defense and stands there and spectates on offense.. Team 1st Stats 2nd cant play with that mindset LOSS
Derkack for 20, Harper for 19, Ace making 2-3 more baskets, and Harper a better stopper on D is 'seeking' delusional. OK bruh.
No he's not. We didn't play any better with him on the court today, in fact we had more movement without him.
I mean i didn't want either in the first place bc i didn't think they were athletic enough to play in the B1G and Martini was too undersized
That doesn't mean they should forget how to shoot a wide open 3
How many times did you see a Derkack shot and say “no no no no YES!”
I don’t care how many points the kid had, it’s not like he was throwing up a ton of quality looks either, he was just hot.
This isn’t even about JD’s performance though.
You have a top 5 future NBA superstar on your roster. He’s LOADED with talent, and presents a matchup issue for a lot of teams.
Today? Carr was a matchup issue for Ace. Very long, athletic, big. Not many teams have a guy like that.
But guess what, MSU has him, and our staff did nothing to change that matchup in our favor. That’s a problem. It was clear as day. Our staff was content with MSU having that matchup, even though it was clearly bothering your win condition. Inexcusable.
I've stated Harper + Bailey + good (not needing great) games from the rest is R winning formula. What's the problem?
With the evolution of Ace, not a great game today but a huge improvement since Vegas.
A healthy 100 percent and motivated dominant Dylan would have resulted in MANY wins.
Our current bench with the added minutes of Grant would have made us dangerous with a non sick and injured Dylan
Almost everyone becomes a worse shooter when they come play for Pike.
It was pretty crazy how little they did to get Ace a better matchup or get him going especially after halftime
They had to know Dylan didn't have it and Ace would need a big 2nd half to pull off a win and didn’t seem to even try to make an adjustment
Honestly man, I’m just not sure they see the game this way at all.
Almost like they’re content saying “okay Ace it’s not your day, we need you doing the little things”
Instead of “okay we need to get Ace going, here’s how we’re going to free him up”
And Grant getting buried on the bench. I just don’t understand what they’re thinking.
I wouldn’t say many, this team always has an issue whether it’s not enough rebounding, bad defense, bad offense, free throws, bad 3 point shooting, turnovers, etc.. It’s always something with this group that will be the new issue that causes the loss for that given game. Maybe a few more wins but they just are not good enough, they are 6-10 in their last 16 games. Maybe they would be 8-8 with more Dylan, couple more wins maybe. They don’t make enough winning plays.
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