Basketball Rutgers Hoops loses to No. 2 Purdue, 68-60
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Too many Rutgers fans are like “oh we got so close and this one play or that one call”. We have to play a full 40 mins.can’t go down 14 in early in the first half all the time.
Jones didn't have 5 steals, we had five lazy and poor passes.
That's all folks. We played hard, missed too many open shots, and refs let Edey get away with everything again.
You guys are just wrong and the issues are 95% talent. If we get a bunch of offensive studs and are still shit on offense then I’ll listen to you. (And no a struggling freshman GG surrounded by nothing else does not count)
Vern's an a$$hat with mocking Jerzez voice and his last comment..Rutgers doesn't get it done and I'm so impressed with Purdue.
Yea not sold on their guards and they won’t get the super friendly big whistle.
Ffs they were super complimentary to us all game, you guys are determined to be miserable all the time.
There are so many better scoring teams with less out there. Rutgers needs 2 of the top 3 players to run an offense? Sorry. That's crap. Coaching matters..
Well I guess happy pills help. I didn't say he was horrible I said he was an ass on those two occasions.
some fan's just blow--big time And they did they even attend game?? checking this board in car after game makes me ill.
We're talking about offense.
You can start by easily seeing the recruit ranking and find out how many were worse than our 295(?) Offensive ranking. I bet just a few of those 295 teams had worse recruits. No?
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Honestly not really much to complain about outside of yet another dreadful opening stretch. The team played just about to its potential today.
(1) This isn’t football, you can’t separate them. If you trade a point of offense for 1.5 points of defense that’s a good trade.
(2) It’s not just about this season.
(3) Our best offensive weapon is Aundre Hyatt. No offense to Hyatt who has improved this year but yes that’s a huge talent issue for a power conference team.
(4) I’m not going to split hairs on recruiting rankings for like sub top 100 players but yes I would have to believe we are at a talent deficit in that metric relative to our actual competition.
(5) when you add to that the fact that Pike has focused on defense in recruiting and also had a couple unplanned losses this year, yes, we have an extreme dearth of talent on offense.
(6) also everyone is cold (maybe not Hyatt)
Cant hate the effort. Cant hate GG taking a step forward.
Like I do not deny that you could probably bring a lot of coaches in here that would take this roster and make it marginally better on offense and much worse on defense. But no one is making this roster good on offense.
We’re 300 in ft shooting or something like that. It’s not hard to figure out what the problem is. Well I guess it’s hard for some people
This team was never beating the #2 team in the nation without the best performances from everyone. Not great timing for Mag to have his worst game. Still love him and the team
a couple of unplanned losses? Each team we lost to is good, no wtf losses. Stonehill almost but thanks to Simpson that didn't happen
I know nobody wants to talk about moral victories, but I'll take today's game, especially the way we shot the first half. Let's face it, this team is offensively challenged, but I love the way they fought back in the second half. I loved seeing Gavin out there making shots. I believe Pike needs to give him more minutes like this. It will only help his confidence and prepare him for next season. I also thought Jamichael and Noah had some really nice contributions, and Cliff did all he could to contain what I believe is the national player of the year. Also, Pike's defensive schemes gave Purdue fits. So in a year that will be down, I saw a glimmer of hope for next season.
Game is 40 minutes, not 20.
Gavin showed some improvement
Davis had a good game
Lazy passing hurt us
Foul shooting hurt us
Missing layups hurt us
Mag was a no show
Edey gets a lot of no calls from refs on defense and offense.
This was a winnable game and we couldn't bring it home.
Gavin showed some improvement
Davis had a good game
Lazy passing hurt us
Foul shooting hurt us
Missing layups hurt us
Mag was a no show
Edey gets a lot of no calls from refs on defense and offense.
This was a winnable game and we couldn't bring it home.
