Scrimmages
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That is a very fair baseline.
I took a sip of the Kool Aid after the Monmouth scrimmage, but I promise did not swallow.
preseason predictions are like.....
To go down a list of 28 names and say who's going to win a home or road game ! Especially when you have no idea how other teams have looked in practice.... who progressed, who regressed, who's struggling with shooting, who's over weight, who's out of shape, who has that nagging injury all year, who's in the doghouse, who has off the court family issues.
In other words.....there are so many unknowns that predictions become meaningless until we see some like games......unless you are looking at games against the Very Best or the Very Worse Teams on the schedule.
Without looking.....who can name the top 3 players for each team ? lol
To go down a list of 28 names and say who's going to win a home or road game ! Especially when you have no idea how other teams have looked in practice.... who progressed, who regressed, who's struggling with shooting, who's over weight, who's out of shape, who has that nagging injury all year, who's in the doghouse, who has off the court family issues.
In other words.....there are so many unknowns that predictions become meaningless until we see some like games......unless you are looking at games against the Very Best or the Very Worse Teams on the schedule.
Without looking.....who can name the top 3 players for each team ? lol
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RU's biggest problem, and there have been many, has been scoring. Three-point shooting was one aspect of it, but it's everything, from the free-throw line to the put-backs.
This. It's fine to get excited again but so many people's expectations are off-base. This is a lot like like the football program. People don't seem to realize how badly the programs have deteriorated under Jordan and Flood.
You keep on saying that and part of that is some teams brought in good classes like PSU and Minnesota, what makes their four stars better than our four stars?
Only way this team hits around 500 this year is if Pikiell has them playing like Rice did. They'd have to play way over the heads and BELIEVE! I just don't see how we can do it because we don't have the shooters to spread the floor. If you can't score, you can't win.
We will be better. how much better is a wait and see. And I won't be surprised if we win 15 games. Call me crazy but there are many improvements over l
where is our top 25 class? Penn State and Minnesota were better than RU coming into the season and are now adding more. Sure these are two schools that RU can beat on a given day this season but over the long haul where are the wins coming from..are you saying we are going to sweep all our swing games vs Illinois, Nwstern, PSU Minny and Nebby and/or beats schools that beat RU by 30-50 points last year.
No I don't think we win all our swing games. But I do think we have an upset win or two against a good team, there are many much worse Rutgers squads than this one that pulled off upsets at the RAC. The arena just is magic for us.
We only need to go say 6-12 in conference to be a .500 team.
Haha forgot to answer that first question.
Freeman was rated very late, thats why he's a four star and out of the Rivals top 150 despite only being a little more than a hundred four stars. If he was rated earlier depending on where in the Rivals 150 he would have landed four star Freeman plus four star Sanders plus three star Laurent should have put us in the top 25.
Rivals ranks HS and Prep school prospects. After HS, Freeman attended JuCo thus he retained his 'star' rating but was not ranked in the Rivals150.
During the time I've been involved in the Rivals ranking process we've never discussed JuCo players.
During the time I've been involved in the Rivals ranking process we've never discussed JuCo players.
I do too, unless he was playing D on Yale's true freshman forward Jordan Bruner - who lit us up for 19 points on 80% shooting in his first collegiate scrimmage!
I don't know, 8 of 18 from the floor for an interior player against an Ivy League front line isn't great. 6 of his 7 rebounds were offensive - maybe off his own misses?
Last season I remember beating Minnesota and no other Big Ten teams. Most of the Big Ten games were varsity versus JV scrimmages. I am all for a 6-win Big Ten season. You are asking for the team to stay healthy all season and do a whole lot of things better (defense, TO's, rebounds, FTs, poise, put people in RAC seats). Quite a stretch. Even Northwestern buried us last year.
