Tariq Francis Named Co-Big Ten Player of the Week - Rutgers University Athletics
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers men's basketball guard Tariq Francis was named Co-Big Ten Player of the Week alongside UCLA's Skyy Clark, the conference announced...
Tariq Francis Named
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Rutgers, UCLA, and Nebraska Garner Men’s Basketball Weekly Honors
Per this poster he’s a selfish ball hog whose inefficient, doesn’t play defense who eats off cupcake teams and should come off the bench with limited mins against Penn and will never do anything against “quality teams”.@goru7 - how many more of these can we expect from Tariq this season?
Let alone get recognized by the conference in any way [I threw in that part].
GO RU
By far our best offseason purchase (whatever he cost). Any kid who is skilled at creating his own shot is going to have more success against weaker teams than better ones. Look at Dylan Grant’s metric decline.
Ill say one other thing. We’re at a point where enough information is out there to firmly conclude we clearly “stink” as a team. If we take a step back to think about it rationally, that’s not really the case for Francis as an individual player. The surrounding cast just isn’t there to make a fair assessment. It’s him and Dylan Grant out there who can take the ball in their hands and score the ball. Nobody else. Zrno needs someone to feed him the ball to potentially get hot and hit some outside shots. On a given day, Ogbole can be opportunistic and get some clean up baskets under the hoop. But that’s really it. Francis and Dylan are the focal points of our offense. So while I don’t think Francis is a solid BIG player, I do think it’s possible he could contribute postiviely on a BIG team with a good surrounding cast. He would’ve helped the 2018-19 team tremendously for example - at least in my opinion.