Any more info on the Summer Trip for Men's Basketball
Any All-Star games in the area for Griffiths, Ndongo or Davis?
Any All-Star games in the area for Griffiths, Ndongo or Davis?
Last night and the portal
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To add on, any idea if these guys will be on campus over the summer? Or not until the fall?
Most players go in June (not a Rutgers thing, it's what the NCAA allows) - they can get in the gym, workout, take summer courses etc.
I don't want to sound like a know-it-all, but while we were successful I sounded the alarm bells after almost every game that the way we play and the minutes we allocated to 3-4 guys was potentially going to hurt us as the season wore on.
Do NOT compare us to Oregon or Iowa or most other teams. They don't play nearly with the same intensity as us. They don't fight through screens like we do.
The math has to change. We need more tools in the tool box. We need to trust 8 perimeter players for 4 spots and we can't play starters for 36 minutes everygame.
If Cliff stays we aren't getting anyone nearly this good. It's common sense. Top 5's in the portal are going to places with starting roles available
If Cliff leaves its a completely different scenario, but if Dean leaves and we are looking for a 3rd string backup, these are the types of guys it's going to be
I'd be very happy if Wolf and Dean were my back up centers.
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OP knows his **** and is extremely well connected I can confirm. Hes the #1 basketball insider for RU bball and perhaps all of Rutgers athletics. Hes just a very unassuming poster though. But trust me, when he speaks, you listen
I think we all know that, sometimes it's hard to decipher what he's saying though. Definitely appreciate him sharing what he can though
He was atrocious. He was good at being a friend and cheerleader and interviewer.
The "glue guy" designation is the most overused label in sports.
i dont actually get why posters are high on him. His offers all mid majors. Can he develop? Sure....thats going to take time but people are penciling him in as a rotation guy based on nothing right now
Never understood grabbing him and having him reclass. I always thought we were thin at the 4/5 this year and was hoping we’d get a grad transfer. Grabbing a senior in high school that wasn’t ready to contribute always confused me. Coach must have thought he was going to get more from certain guys.
JaMichael Davis, Bailey’s PG teammate from Atlanta, will be at RU next season. I feel that he may be key to keeping Ace‘s signing with us next year.
Not Dean. He is a junior and still doesn't have the strength to compete in the B1G.
Did he get weaker? He was below average last year and terrible this year.
Not sure how he gets 23 mpg at Dartmouth and 30 mpg at Rutgers?
I put him at the end of my depth chart optimistically. Hope he’s not another Palmquist (I don’t think he is) and has more to his game than spot up 3’s
Maybe its just his coach's style. None of the player at Dartmouth played more than 30mpg on average.
High ceiling guy.
High risk, he may never be a B1G level player, high reward - big upside at 6'8" with a big frame and could be a terrific stretch 4, small ball 5 kind of guy.
His jump shot looks clean, he gets it off quickly with solid footwork on catches and off a dribble or two - with that size, that is very interesting.
He also looked like he'd never played man-to-man defense before in his RU appearances.
Seems like a solid fit culture-wise too
What makes Caleb a guard ? Or Paul ? The fact that they bring the ball up court ? Once in the frontcourt Their skills don’t fit the definition. They are both 3-4 type players but as guards square pegs in round holes for us. You want to know what a guard is ? Speedy Claxton. Brandin Knight. Maybe Simpson becomes that. Paul and Caleb are not real guards.
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Agreed 100% here, no sugarcoating.
Pike, as the leader, has to get started immediately (which I’m sure he has) on shoring up the ship whether that means adding to the NIL pot (donors need to be worked I know Pike can’t directly influence) or bringing in an offensive-minded assistant who preferably has experience with developing NBA talent.
Ace and Griffiths are elite gets and are going to expect the program to provide what their other suitors can. Both will look to make an immediate impact with playing time and shot selection. The blue bloods and tier 2 teams would get them those looks, we can’t sit back and force them into the whole defense first system or they will transfer.
Back in the day there was this guy @ Princeton, Bill something who was a lights out shooter. lol
Still remember the PU-Michigan game where it was essentially Bradley vs Russell. As I recall they both wound up playing for the Knicks and Bill held his own / helped them to a championship.
Also, on a slight side note, a few years later Petrie was ROY for Portland, after starring for PU... and my fiancée wound up buying his home in West Linn OR about 25 years ago.
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RU72 is a great poster. Don't impugn his character...ever.
Atkinson was a starter, Bruner was a 20 minute guy at Bama...I didn't follow the Dartmouth/Loyola kid and Towns was injured before (Harvard) and after...
I just don't see Pike or this staff, going all in on an undersized 5 man and asking them to play the 4 over Baye Ndongo or Mawot Mag. We already don't take enough 3s and want to add another player that doesn't diversify the lineups.
We should be moving closer to how Marquette, Kansas and other teams can mix and match lineups. We also need to evolve past being solely reliant on holding everyone under 65PPG.....that can't happen if fans want to replace Hyatt with a player who doesn't stretch the defense......it's just going to make it harder for Gavin Griffiths to not find room to score.
I always look forward to his posts
I like this update on Ace better
Deeply concerning, but not unexpected. Many fans thought the collapse could have unfortunate consequences and this may be one.
It's funny the garbage people randomly write
Yeah! Let's get a guy from G-Town who shot 40% from 2 and 30% from 3 and 3+ turnovers/game in 37 minutes per game - that's just what we need
Yeah! Let's get a guy from G-Town who shot 40% from 2 and 30% from 3 and 3+ turnovers/game in 37 minutes per game - that's just what we need
Some of those Hofstra players looked pretty good. Portal possibilities?
I was just looking through the Recruiting/Commitments page over the weekend and I noticed Chol has no rating at all. I had some questions then that I would like to direct to my bar-mates here, if I could! Doesn't Rivals usually catchup with players' ratings after they commit somewhere, even if unrated previously. Was this because he committed late and/or then re-classified? Was he a totally off the radar type of kid...and should we be concerned about that? Was this an example of Pike and the coaches being blown away by the young man and this was as close as we can legally get to stashing someone with perceived potential - offer, then re-classify, then redshirt (was he redshirted?). Thanks for sharing your expertise...this stuff is interesting...but gets confusing. GO RU!
Glad the signing period starts in only 4 weeks so RU can get Davis and Ndongo signed. Hopefully Jamichael will be really happy and successful here.