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Basketball Rutgers falls 80-72 at Penn State plagued with turnover, foul troubles

We are so casual with the ball at times, it can be so exasperating to be a RU fan. Williams 3 turnovers in the first half??

Shorten the rotation in the second half, yes please. We are owning the glass so that's good.
 
Role players who DONT know their role…..

Jordan and Jwill need to sit. Out of control again. Jmike adding nothing.

Shorten your bench Pike and get ball in hands of Bailey and harp to create on offense. Keep Grant martini and Acuff out there and have them hit shots
So Derkack, Williams, Davis need to sit with Harper nursing an ankle. That leaves us with.... Acuff at guard?
 
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When you say RU needs to rely on our 2 stars like, holy crap, how bad is that-- you're just being dumb-- that's who we should be relying on. Like psu isn't relying on ace Baldwin to get the win
 
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Maybe I’m dense but is college basketball all that exhausting that 20 year old peak specimens can’t play a whole half of basketball? Why all the substitutions? Why not leave Dylan grant out there for longer. Leave the scrubs on the bench. I feel like we sub too often.
Because then what would Knight do as a coach? He doesn't teach an offense, so all he has is his shinny stopwatch to tell Pike when to sub out players.
 
Goal in 1st half is to keep game close and then have confidence Pike makes proper half time adjustments.

One adjustment is to shorten bench in H2.

Expect Dylan to take over in H2
 
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Playing our C game and Penn State is shooting very well and we are down 2 at the half. Take care of the ball in the second half and we win
Bingo, i thought we played like crap the last 12 minutes and only down 2. Protect the ball, keep getting boards and defend and we win this game. Keep turning it over and we lose.
 
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I actually didn’t think the defense was bad in the first half. PSU had some fools gold shooting 7-12 from deep. Our interior defense has been good. The real problem is our TOs on offense, which have allowed PSU to get runouts.
Idk about fools gold. Most were wide open looks. They continue to be slow getting around screens. Neiderhauser does a nice job freeing up their shooters
 
This is one of those games Dylan/Ace should not give up the ball. Apart from Ogbole, rest of team has been useless.
 
What’s with the Penn state students wearing pro team uniforms? I’ve seen eagles / orioles / Yankees / golden state warriors
 
Jwill has 3. They weren’t very pretty either although one might be that bs screen foul call which was total bullshit.
Big east dont cherrypick bro DH and AB had terrible TO's as well. . Splitting defenders on dribble is not getting done. Call out everyone
 
Ace Baldwin with 5 fvckin steals. Guy is such a pest. Also 11 points and 4 assists.
Because inexplicable JMike (who owned him the first game) has been glued to the bench, probably because of his missed 3, yet Dercack who missed a 3 the very next posession, has been tasked with it. Leaving Ace open for 3s, dribbling to his chest and then tossing ot away
 
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