Basketball GAME THREAD: Rutgers vs. Minnesota on Thursday night

[malaka27]

Gotta win vs NW and 1 in the B1G tourney to feel good about dancing now.

Might need more than that.

 

[PiscatawayMike]

Gotta make free throws on the road to win... can only blame ourselves

 

[MiloTalon13]

don't let them roll ball up court.

Of all the dumb things we did this was the dumbest most egregious
A little pressure and no time got pump fake

 

[bethlehemfan]

Played not to lose instead of to win.

That’s not true at all. Lol.

 

[mikeylew1992]

This ain't pikes fault, he can't pass the ball or dribble for them or make their decisions. This is on the team

 

[RUTrack94]

RU has lost a few double digit leads with 10 minutes left … never thought I’d see one lost in 75 seconds.

 

[Mr Magoo_rivals90743]

Hyatt is never a smart player.

Understatement of the year

 

[RU#1fan]

Stop trying to find something to blame this on. It’s the team.

Colossal choke to a 1-16 B1G team
Beyond embarrassing Pike.

 

[Rokodesh]

Thanks Paul and Hyatt

 

[DHajekRC84]

Hey..Minny lost 12 in a row, 1 -16 and had no crowd. Up entire game till last shot.
Did we really expect different?

 

[greenknight]

WTF happened!? Im a train up to boston and lost service with a minute left and we were up 8. Didnt even turn back on assumed we won. WTF happened!?

We got Paul Mulcahy'd

 

[FrankZ_RU93]

Couldn't believe they were still reviewing it. Like anything but the count it motion was coming.

 

[RUboston]

At least the team enjoyed the 80's music.

 

[mikeyoc]

NO EXCUSE

 

[Rokodesh]

We can’t inbound to Wolf or Cliff or Hyatt or Oskar. They can’t handle the ball. Why Simpson wasn’t on the floor there I can’t say. But Cam was well guarded and the last time Paul got it he turned it over. So Caleb was the best option on the floor. Sucks that he missed a FT but geez. Getting the inbound pass in to our best FT shooter every time is unlikely.

Caleb sucks at free throws. I thought he would miss both.

 

[leftoright]

looked lied no start til .2 .3 before clock ticked. Easy to do for clock keeper to do homey ****

 

[Bayonnebomber79]

Can someone say play-in game?

 

[koleszar]

What an epic embarrassing meltdown by our Senior Captains.

 

[RUTrack94]

The clock didn't start for like a half second when they touched the ball

Wouldn’t surprise me if it was 0.5 seconds late since the shot went off at 0.4.

Think RU is now first 4 out.

 

[Plum Street]

Caleb sucks at free throws. I thought he would miss both.

He probably should have missed the second one.

 

[bethlehemfan]

Left his hand with .2 or so. If we pressured the backcourt game over.

 

[RutgersLifeR]

This ain't pikes fault, he can't pass the ball or dribble for them or make their decisions. This is on the team

Yes, and if Cam just makes that last free throw along with Caleb too. We missed so many free throws tonight. What a shame.

 

[Goku]

The way that they choked away Houston a few years ago and now this has me wondering about pike.

I don’t want to see Hyatt, Mulcahy and Caleb anymore.

 

[RU at the shore]

For as great as pike supposedly is he sure coaches like **** sometimes. Let's let them roll it in and not have the clock start til they're at midcourt

Negative- he was yelling at the players to stop the roll. Caleb and Spencer did not execute

 

[rufeelinit]

At least the team enjoyed the 80's music.

Yeah that is not going to age well either given the outcome and Dean's inability to give us a couple of average minutes.

 

[FIJI'83]

Why didn’t Hyatt take the ball across half court on the third to last possession, instead of passing back?

SCARED. Meow

 

[jordkap]

Paul turning it over twice and Hyatt not taking it across half court blew that game

 

[Scarlet Blind_rivals]

Didn't learn from the @ Ohio St game, they were doomed to repeat it.

 

[BIGRUBIGDBIGredmachine]

I just can't believe the dumb plays by Hyatt and Paul on the last t/o. Nightmare

 

[bethlehemfan]

Cam blew it too. Can’t leave that guy

 

[Proud NJ Sports Fan]

Enough of Pike is a great coach.

They looked completely unprepared to secure what should have been an easy win

 

[Shell21]

don’t understand how we have two veterans that don’t want to go to the foul line with two f’n shots. that’s all you need to know

 

[DHajekRC84]

This ain't pikes fault, he can't pass the ball or dribble for them or make their decisions. This is on the team

But he can call for them to foul and earn it at the line shooting two vs. make 3 after 3 after 3.

 

[PSAL_Hoops]

Paul turning it over twice and Hyatt not taking it across half court blew that game

Yes these 1 things and Minnesota hitting a bunch of insane 3s like last year.

 

[RUfubar_rivals]

I thought we were supposed to be a good defensive team

 

[greenknight]

How the **** do you choke that game. They dont win 2 game in Tourney they are out. There is no way they are beating NW.

 

[RutgersLifeR]

Couldn't believe they were still reviewing it. Like anything but the count it motion was coming.

Wish we had this referee crew for OSU.

 

[RU Mike73]

Caleb DPOY. LMFAO he lets them roll off 4 seconds. Piss poor.

 

[Plum Street]

People are too tough on Hyatt here . He was looking for cam as he was coached to do. Couldn’t get it to cam so passed to mulcahy. Mulcahy blew this game. The bone head passes, bad shots ok. But too lazy to box out in crunch time …that was the loss

 

[PSAL_Hoops]

But he can call for them to foul and earn it at the line shooting two vs. make 3 after 3 after 3.

Yes - especially considering we literally lost the game in the exact same place the exact same way last year.