Players w No Confidence

satnom

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RU will get spanked in conference play but want to see team fight. Players with no confidence on court are:

Buchanan
Badalau
Ogbole

They‘ll need to sit or get very limited mins and play the freshman. Have a short rotation of eight players.

That was some ugly basketball tonight.

GO RU
 

RUChet

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Badalou is not a P4 player. He’s had 1 good shooting game all season against a lousy team

Ogbole has never shown he can be effective vs high major talent

Buchanon has some skills but is not consistent
 

RU848789

Heisman
Jul 27, 2001
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RU will get spanked in conference play but want to see team fight. Players with no confidence on court are:

Buchanan
Badalau
Ogbole

They‘ll need to sit or get very limited mins and play the freshman. Have a short rotation of eight players.

That was some ugly basketball tonight.

GO RU
Was there a game? First time in years I just forgot about an RU hoops game - probably first time since the Jordan era. Didn't have a ticket for tonight and one of the guys in our group offered me one, but I declined as I just wasn't interested.
 
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BigEastPhil

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Nov 25, 2007
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Today's update on the likely coming pattern from John Homenuk who got his start as a teenager on the old EasternUS Weather board as earthlight and grew up to be a damn good meteorologist who runs NY Metro Weather now: https://x.com/nymetrowx

As he and all the other respected non-hypester mets are saying, a pattern like this is certainly much more favorable for cold and snow in our area than almost any other pattern, but there's no guarantee the pattern being talked about for bigger storms in 7+ days is going to evolve as forecast now and even if it does there's still no guarantee that we're going to get a major snowstorm, but this kind of pattern has delivered a disproportionate number of major snowstorms in the past, so there's that. This is all probabilistic forecasting where uncertainty is inherent in the models and forecasts. The biggest indicator to me is that the Euro, CMC and GFS ensemble forecasts out to 15 days are showing anomalously high snowfall forecasts -again, not a guarantee, but a strong indicator.


Is John Homenuk a huge RU fan?

Wrong thread lol 😂
 

PSAL_Hoops

Heisman
Feb 18, 2008
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Ogbole should not “sit”. He stinks but it’s untrue we have better options. He needs to just play hard and pick up his 5 fouls. Even if he fouls out in like 15 min. Whatever. Best we’ve got at his position. Bryce needs to get every back up minute at the 5 and also some time at the 4.

Buchanan was a train wreck today, but he does more than Badalau. I’d rather start Buchanan. Maybe as a starter he wouldn’t be as tempted to force the issue. But if he can’t be trusted to play within the team flow his time needs to be limited too.

Zrno’s shooting is down to like 31% now. For someone whose strength is supposed to be sharp shooting that is horrendous. He adds nothing else.
 

Pdabs

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Badalau… more like bad-a-laa
Big O Jesus he makes a basketball look like a tennis ball and he’s scared to go up strong.
Halfway through the game I wanted Buchanan investigated it looked like he was trying to throw the game Lolol
 
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Today's update on the likely coming pattern from John Homenuk who got his start as a teenager on the old EasternUS Weather board as earthlight and grew up to be a damn good meteorologist who runs NY Metro Weather now: https://x.com/nymetrowx

As he and all the other respected non-hypester mets are saying, a pattern like this is certainly much more favorable for cold and snow in our area than almost any other pattern, but there's no guarantee the pattern being talked about for bigger storms in 7+ days is going to evolve as forecast now and even if it does there's still no guarantee that we're going to get a major snowstorm, but this kind of pattern has delivered a disproportionate number of major snowstorms in the past, so there's that. This is all probabilistic forecasting where uncertainty is inherent in the models and forecasts. The biggest indicator to me is that the Euro, CMC and GFS ensemble forecasts out to 15 days are showing anomalously high snowfall forecasts -again, not a guarantee, but a strong indicator.


What is Sheridan's weather forecast? I don't know how accurate he is, but he always was confident on the floor.
 

bitnez

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Jan 18, 2006
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One player who has confidence and needs to play much more is Powers.
Kid has a real nice touch !

Pike is also killing Nwuli.
This. I don’t understand why Nwuli isn’t playing more. I appreciate he’s a technical waiting to happen when he’s in but the kid is an athlete and a dog. We need that with this group. Not that it probably matters with NIL but unless he plays more there’s no way he’s here next year.
 

RUDiddy777

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Feb 26, 2015
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This. I don’t understand why Nwuli isn’t playing more. I appreciate he’s a technical waiting to happen when he’s in but the kid is an athlete and a dog. We need that with this group. Not that it probably matters with NIL but unless he plays more there’s no way he’s here next year.

He’s a bit wild and reckless. But he’s gonna be a lot of fun to watch as he settles in.
 

Nycrusupporter

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Serb Sharp Shooters... combined 28 for 97 (29%). We found the only 2 Serbs who CAN'T play basketball. Knew it from day 1 hype.
They are used to playing in systems with ball movement, spacing, screens and picks, so they are totally lost on the court for us. I would imagine they both want to go back to Europe.
 

satnom

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I think Badalau has the best stroke when playing with confidence which is now in the gutter. He needs to make a few to get it going. I think he can become a decent spot up shooter. Had some great looks yesterday but his mechanics have gone awry.

Zrno shoots line drives and doesn’t have pure shooting mechanics. Pure shooters are solid foul shooters which Zrno is not.

Buchanan looks lost. Four turnovers in like 3 mins. Has to figure it out asap.

GO RU
 
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Atlasxal

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This. I don’t understand why Nwuli isn’t playing more. I appreciate he’s a technical waiting to happen when he’s in but the kid is an athlete and a dog. We need that with this group. Not that it probably matters with NIL but unless he plays more there’s no way he’s here next year.
Fairly certain Nwuli did not play vs. Penn as he was sick. He may have missed practices after the Penn game resulting in his limited play last night.
 

Bob Chaewsky_rivals

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Dec 31, 2008
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RU will get spanked in conference play but want to see team fight. Players with no confidence on court are:

Buchanan
Badalau
Ogbole

They‘ll need to sit or get very limited mins and play the freshman. Have a short rotation of eight players.

That was some ugly basketball tonight.

GO RU
I'm not sure any of them lacks confidence. They're just not that good. It's hard to tell a player's confidence level unless you know him.
 

PSAL_Hoops

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Feb 18, 2008
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They are used to playing in systems with ball movement, spacing, screens and picks, so they are totally lost on the court for us. I would imagine they both want to go back to Europe.
Oh please. They both missed a collection of WIDE open shots yesterday against a terrible Del State team. Enough already. It’s simply not true that they are shooting poorly because our offense doesn’t get them clean looks.
 
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RUDiddy777

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Oh please. They both missed a collection of WIDE open shots yesterday against a terrible Del State team. Enough already. It’s simply not true that they are shooting poorly because our offense doesn’t get them clean looks.

So. Many. Wide. Open. Looks.

We shot sub 30%. Get to 40% on FG and 3s and it’s a 35 point W.