Basketball Rutgers Basketball's upset bid of No. 9 Alabama falls short in second Players Era game

[leftoright]

I got in at under 152.5. Well worth the try.

 

[RUtrumpet92]

Add in football too. Shelby is a bullshit artist who previously stated that his "observations are not based upon facts".

He is the perfect candidate for the ignore function, people.

 

[fluoxetine]

a coach who enforces none of the fundamentals (free throw shooting, boxing out, not leaving your feet on defense, making the extra pass, etc).

This is silly. How does one “enforce” free throw shooting? (Also our team FT is fine fwiw). I’m fairly sure a coach who has produced 3 top 10 defenses and another top 20 defense here coaches defensive fundamentals.

Bama not impressive, we got killed on the boards, killed in the 3 point game and still hung with them the whole way. Bama looks very beatable.

Boards and 3 point shooting is how they beat people. They looked legit to me.

That’s a whopper of an if. He’s a poor shooter. By that logic, why not also say that we’d be celebrating if Ogbole scored 30 and had 20 boards ?

A “whopper of an if” is a huge exaggeration but yeah he’s not a good shooter. In general we’ll be better than the 2/13 we had in this game.

 

[greenknight]

The guards and wings to pair with Dylan and Ace just don’t really fit well. This was an offseaon talking point. Hayes fits well but admittedly in a gamr against team like bama he just can’t get on the floor. Hopefully in conference play he can find his niche. Because those wide open dercack threes tonight either off penetration or as simple as offensive rebound tap out, are absolute onions if in Hayes hands.

It just feels like Pike has already feel in love with Dercack yet if we could find a better offensive fitting piece in his role that wasn’t a total liability on defense like Hayes, we would be in good shape. And even though for us it seems dercack is an option when we need more D, it was a bit alarming to me anyway that Bama basically hunted him on offense the last quarter of the game.

I think we could have flipped to zone. Had nobody that could keep up with Seers speed but at same time you do that it hurts our fast break. Needed to stop the penetrate & dish.
Our outside shooting has to get better.
Think it's more like guys arent getting enough looks with DH & AB getting most of shots. 2 or 3 shots are not going to get you in a groove

the D needs to stay disciplined if you got Seers driving and beats 1st guy and cross court big slides over you need someone up top to slide down and cover backside. Need to rotate better

 

[Shelby65]

This is silly. How does one “enforce” free throw shooting? (Also our team FT is fine fwiw). I’m fairly sure a coach who has produced 3 top 10 defenses and another top 20 defense here coaches defensive fundamentals.



Boards and 3 point shooting is how they beat people. They looked legit to me.



A “whopper of an if” is a huge exaggeration but yeah he’s not a good shooter. In general we’ll be better than the 2/13 we had in this game.

Not if he’s the guy shooting from downtown.

 

[greenknight]

If Hayes could play good defense, he’d be the guy, but against ND and Bama it’s just too much of a mismatch

Flip to zone to get him on floor and looks. In the dinasauer B1G he mat flourish.

 

[greenknight]

This is silly. How does one “enforce” free throw shooting? (Also our team FT is fine fwiw). I’m fairly sure a coach who has produced 3 top 10 defenses and another top 20 defense here coaches defensive fundamentals.



Boards and 3 point shooting is how they beat people. They looked legit to me.



A “whopper of an if” is a huge exaggeration but yeah he’s not a good shooter. In general we’ll be better than the 2/13 we had in this game.

Ogbole just needs to board and make the shors around the basket. Hes 270lbs built like a brickhouse there should be nobody to stop him within 5ft. Needs to slow it down and use his body more effectively

 

[Shelby65]

Flip to zone to get him on floor and looks. In the dinasauer B1G he mat flourish.

The B1G isn’t that anymore. It’s just as athletic as other conferences now.

I don’t mind being slower than Alabama. Very good, athletic team. But it’s a concern that Hayes and Martini couldn’t get good looks against ND.

The game seems too fast for these two in particular, on both ends.

 

[biazza38]

He's drawing 5 fouls per game - he and Harper are both in the top 3% in drawing fouls in CBB

I’m talking about yesterday. He got hit a lot with no calls. Literally got run over on one play and got nothing

 

[seansherm]

I’m talking about yesterday. He got hit a lot with no calls. Literally got run over on one play and got nothing

Fair, he did only draw 3 yesterday, below average and he was involved a lot. Definitely thought he should have drawn the foul you mention.

 

[IL Lusciato]

no need to hate on that young person at all. He's an RU grad.

Following up to say that according to Politi, Cliff laughed when they asked who he'd be a fan of after playing/school, and said com'on I'm a Rutgers Alum.

Apparently got his degree delivered while in Vegas. Some things are bigger than a single season of sports. I'm rooting for Cliff anytime he isn't playing against us.

 

[AdventureHasAName]

This is silly. How does one “enforce” free throw shooting?

You make them practice it at the beginning and end of every practice and you don't let them do anything else until they demonstrate they are routinely making a responsible percentage. You know, the same way high school coaches have been doing it for 80 years.

 

[fluoxetine]

You make them practice it at the beginning and end of every practice and you don't let them do anything else until they demonstrate they are routinely making a responsible percentage. You know, the same way high school coaches have been doing it for 80 years.

Are you at practice? I have no reason to believe they aren’t practicing free throws at whatever the normal rate is for a college basketball team. The main reason a bunch of Pike’s teams have struggled shooting free throws is the same reason they’ve struggled at 3-point shooting: bad shooters.