Rutgers Basketball Preview
Rutgers:
I decided to start at the bottom and work my way up to what I think will be the standings next year. Rutgers was not very good this year, finishing 5-13 in the not-so-good American conference. A lot of people would say, "you can only get better from here". This may be true for this Rutgers team. Rutgers loses seniors Wally Judge and J.J Moore. Jerome Seagears, D’Von Campbell, and Craig Brown are also transferring. Losing these five players means a loss of:
48% of their points
41% of their rebounds per game
and 50% of their minutes
They do bring in 6 freshmen who, unless they contribute right away will leave Rutgers pretty awful.
So here is their projected roster:
# Name HT WT YR POS
11 Kadeem Jack 6-9 235 SR. PF
Starting Power Forward, averaged 14.3 points per game with 6.8 rebounds. A close second to Mack.
4 Myles Mack 5-10 175 SR. PG
Starting Point Guard, averaged 15 points per game with 4.3 Assists. Rutgers' best player.
0 Malick Kone 6-5 200 SR. SF
The starting Shooting Guard, averaged 3.5 points per game last year.
3 Kerwin Okoro 6-5 215 JR. SF
Does not play meaningful minutes.
21 Stephen Zurich 6-5 205 JR. SF
Same as Okoro.
23 Jalen Hyde 5-8 165 JR. PG
Scrub.
35 Greg Lewis 6-9 245 JR. PF
The starting Center that has a decent rebound rate. With him starting Rutgers actually has a pretty big lineup.
10 Junior Etou 6-7 230 SO. SF
The starting Small Forward, averaged 5.3 points per game.
33 Khalil Batie 5-10 175 SO. PG
Walk-on
5 Mike Williams 6-2 190 FR. SG
3 Star, offers from Dayton, Iowa, ST. Johns, Temple...
2 Bishop Daniels 6-3 185 FR. SG
3 star, no other offers
32 Ibrahima Diallo 6-10 240 FR. C
Rawer than sushi. 3 Star
22 D.J. Foreman 6-8 230 FR. PF
Offers from Iowa State, Minnesota, Pittsburgh…
13 Ryan Johnson 6-6 190 FR. SG
A low ranked prospect. Supposedly he can shoot. According to Rutgers he is the next Jeremy Lamb.
40 Shaquille Doorson 6-11 275 FR. C
Low ranked recruit. Redshirt.
15 Jake Dadika 5-11 160 FR. PG
Preferred Walk-on
My projected starting lineup:
Point Guard: Myles Mack
Shooting Guard: Malick Kone
Small Forward: Junior Etou
Power Foward: Kadeem Jack
Center: Greg Lewis
Michigan plays Rutgers at home and on the road next year, which is favorable for us.
In all, Rutgers is a pretty small team that is losing a lot of players of. They do not have depth, or much skill. The junior class looks to have nothing so the team will rely on mostly seniors. I project Rutgers will go 4-14 and tie with Purdue for last.
Next up... Purdue.
October 17th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
A suggestion that you can take or leave:
Since you've already posted all of these, maybe it'd make sense to create one new forum diary that links to the other 14 diaries and contains any overarching thoughts or observations that came to you while doing this?
I'm thinking that might be a way to give context/analysis to these and show people where they are without burying any other diaries that people are working on.
October 17th, 2014 at 5:52 PM ^
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October 17th, 2014 at 4:13 PM ^
They will be the best dodgeball team in the B1G.
October 17th, 2014 at 6:24 PM ^
Pretty much. This preview could have just been the roster paired with "LOL."
October 17th, 2014 at 9:21 PM ^
You can do it all hyperlinked since you already did the work - each name hyperlinked to your previous work.
- Wisconsin
- Maryland
- UM
- MSU
- OSU
- etc
October 18th, 2014 at 7:37 AM ^
October 18th, 2014 at 1:10 PM ^
I'd keep it as a diary. You could link them all in order and then update any themes or thoughts you had on each squad. Maybe title it "Big Ten Basketball Previews" or something like that.
October 18th, 2014 at 1:15 PM ^
You should change Jalen Hyde to walk-on as opposed to scrub. I just take it a little personal since we're good friends.
October 18th, 2014 at 1:22 PM ^
Yeah, I think you should quit calling college basketball players scrubs. I don't know what your basketball playing resume looks like, but it's a bit disrespectful.
October 18th, 2014 at 6:19 PM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 8:21 AM ^
October 19th, 2014 at 10:53 AM ^
I have no problem with the word scrub, any other preview I wouldn't care, it's just because I know him and other players on the team. If OSU or MSU have scrubs, by all means, say it.
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