Dear Coach Pike
- Thread starter Caliknight
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With Bannon's handling of Tenys and Rice's handling of Biruta, we may have permanently soured our Lithuanian connection
He is a freshmen and clearly the best player on the court.Rutgers lack of 3 point shooters was compounded with the missed shots around the basket.Michigan has outstanding coaching and scoring threats at every position while Rutgers is so limited on offense that scoring 70 points is a remote occurrence .
Mack was a shooter. He had no help
Dear Rutgers Fans, thanks for guiding me in the direction of needing shooters, as in my profession these sorts of things aren’t obvious. —Coach Pikiell
Well, we haven’t had one in a while, so maybe he needs a reminder.
What recruits are coming that can shoot? For real.
What recruits are coming that can shoot? For real.
Next year when Geo is playing more off the ball, I think we see a difference.
Pike absolutely DOES recruit shooters...kids that can shoot the lights out
Problem is....so do other schools
they get scholarships to schools that have really good teams
competing for championships
Problem is....so do other schools
they get scholarships to schools that have really good teams
competing for championships
Geo playing off the ball next year be be much better and I still think Harper will continue to get much better too. Would still love to have another guy but these 2 playing with a kid like Mulcahy, I predict will both increase their 3pt shooting by 5% or more. 90% of Geo's 3 attempts are shake and bake step backs. It's amazing he's hitting on as high a % as he is.
Yes, please recruit 4/5* guys who are national Top 50 recruits, bonus points if they are 20 year old freshmen. Amazing he hasn't thought of that yet.
Do you really believe that he doesn't know this?
Shooters are in high-demand, for obvious reasons. Pike will have to start winning recruiting wars to get them.
What shooters do we have on this roster?
Kiss, Geo, anyone? Nope.
Hoping that Mulcahy and the other new players next season can shoot better than this crew.
Diane, he's a 5 star player and yes he is a freshman, but that's a bit misleading. He's actually 20 years old.
This is true. They played together for one year there and according to the TV commentators they remain friends to this day.
We all realize. I think it simply needs to be reminded of because the problem isn't getting fixed. We don't have shooters. We need shooters. I am all in on Pike. He's a great coach and what we need. But the next step is bringing it people that can actually shoot.
So, are any on the way?
Not according to 24/7. He is a 4 star composite. Ranked 40. Certainly a highly ranked kid, but not at that elite level. We need to recruit kids like this in this conference if we are going to win. He isn't unusual. Only to us.
He had a bunch of offers, but none at that elite level outside of Michigan.
https://247sports.com/Player/Ignas-Brazdeikis-93702/
19-year old freshmen have pretty much become the norm. I haven't bothered to look it up but a high school coach recently told me that about half of the top 30 players in the country will be 20-year old freshman.
Ignas was 19 when he enrolled at Michigan. Just turned 20 last month.
He was a Rivals five-star prospect btw.
A good example of a shooter we need that RU fans will remember is Jeremy Hazel from SHU.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/jeremy-hazell-1.html
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/jeremy-hazell-1.html
Rivals had him ranked as a 5 star. Either way, we need a kid like this who can shoot from the outside and still have an inside game. We currently dont have anyone on the roster like him.
Knowing about a problem hasn't worked at Rutgers when it comes to recruiting shooters.Schools that aren't even in a power conference have better shooters which concerns me more than trying to compete with schools in the B1G for recruits.The competition in the B1G is too strong to expect success solely based on defense .Losing seasons and no NCAA bids have been the end result for decades.Coach Pikiell and staff know what is needed and hopefully positive results will occur ASAP.
Presently we have zero
Like I said....shooters have been going elsewhere(for decades)
maybe now we have had some success.....some shooters will choose to come here...
I’d be careful about calling what RU has done as “some success” just yet.