7 of 12 losses were games missing a starter
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and yet had nothing to do with tonights loss
that is on Pike and his recruiting and many called this out last year and the year before
that is on Pike and his recruiting and many called this out last year and the year before
We obviously should have won tonight anyway
We would have won if Mag was healthy
Both are true
Paul has been bad lately but when Paul was out early season we beat a bunch of scrubs and lost to Temple. Choked away a lead to lose at Miami
Yea and nothing Paul’s done this year makes me think we would have beaten temple or Miami with him
Pike recruited Mag, too, fwiw.
The players on the court absolutely should not have lost this game - but I think we'd have been more comfortably ahead with Mag on the court tonight, and even the late game meltdown wouldn't have resulted in a loss.
really because last year we lost at Minnesota with Geo Baker and Ron Harper and the team from this year minus Mag and they only had 6 schollie players so now all of sudden you declare we win with Mag
we didnt beat Seton Hall with Mag, were handled easily at home by Iowa with Mag
quite frankly RU could have blown the game with Mag
why dont we just stop play now because you are convinced that the team cannot or isnt expected to do ANYTHING without Mag
Paul had point totals of 6, 9 and 6 and 9 total turnovers vs Indiana, Ohio state and seton hall. He’s been average for most of the year.
You can’t possibly think Mag being out had nothing to do with tonight’s loss.
Should have won, but that’s just crazy
Don't get this take. Acknowledging significant headwinds doesn't mean you are giving up.
really because I saw Caleb miss a 3 just like he did at osu and just like he did at psu but we held on in that one. Now all of sudden Mag is god here, we would never lose with him
hey we lost with Geo and Ron last year
shut it down, give back the psu win, mag wasnt there, its all Mag, lets just use excuse and yes cannot believe the we didnt have Mag excuse is used this time, just like the we didnt have Paul excuse was used for Temple
1. Min y is worse this year than last year.
2. It most likely wouldn’t have been a must win if Mag wasn’t hurt.
3. The team kind of can’t do a lot of things anymore. The press is worse and the offense regularly struggled to break 60.
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Depth is a pretty important part of any team haha. This is such a weird thing you keep parroting. I just quickly checked the top 3 teams in standings on espn in the B1G, every one of those teams purdue, iowa and maryland played multiple games without starters
Michigan beat us without jett howard who is alot better than mawot. So again, its just a foolish point
I get you're pissed about the game, but discounting the absence of one of our starters while at the same time complaining about lack of bench depth doesn't make any sense.
It's not that Mag is a god here - it's that he's one tire of a car. You can talk about precision engineering and horsepower or whatever... but replace one tire with a donut, and your performance will suffer. Whether it was Mag or any of our other core players.
We are 16-7 with Mag, 2-5 without him
The 2 wins were both by a couple points
This team has serious depth issues. We just aren't as good when we aren't full strength. It's beyond obvious at this point. It is what it is
Paul needs to figure it out and he needs to do it immediately
Squeak into the tournament and hope the team gets hot is all I'm hoping for now. With Mag I had hopes for a deep tournament run. That seems very unlikely now, but you never know. Get hot at the right time and/or favorable matchups is still possible
The 2 wins were both by a couple points
This team has serious depth issues. We just aren't as good when we aren't full strength. It's beyond obvious at this point. It is what it is
Paul needs to figure it out and he needs to do it immediately
Squeak into the tournament and hope the team gets hot is all I'm hoping for now. With Mag I had hopes for a deep tournament run. That seems very unlikely now, but you never know. Get hot at the right time and/or favorable matchups is still possible
This season is all about lack of quality depth, which has given us razor thin margins for error against competitive teams all season. When we've been down a starter against a good opponent - whether it's been Mulcahy, McConnell, or Mag - we haven't had quality backfill.
Hate to pick on the guy because he seems like a great teammate, but Reibers regression this season was a fatal blow. He’s getting taken to the woodshed by freshman.
There is no doubt...
TBH even if Mag didn't go down, I wonder if we'd be slumping a bit now. Simpson's minutes weren't huge before he went down. We were playing six guys a ton of minutes. His injury put even more pressure on the starters. People get furious when we see the Reiber/Woolf, Oskar, Simpson subs but these guys need rests somehow.
The good news is the problem SHOULD be going away in the coming years...