Rutgers' offensive woes have cost them dearly in big games this season. At some point, the shots have to start falling.
by Mark Remsa
During the entire offseason, many college hoops sports writers and analysts harped on this year's Rutgers hoops team as an ‘improved offensive group’, offering more speed and improved shooting, despite losing high-impact players Paul Mulcahy and Cam Spencer to the transfer portal and a decommitment from Baye Ndongo.
After all, there were a lot of positives coming out of the Rutgers camp from the summer workouts, overseas trip, and September exhibition games against St. John's and DePaul.
With a smaller backcourt than the proto-typical Steve Pikiell team, many felt Rutgers was going to play a different style of basketball this year where the speed of the game was going to be injected with a high-tempo offense and more three-pointers were going to swish through the nets.
Now, Rutgers is at least 19 games into the current season, and this year's team is on pace to being one of the worst offensive teams since Pikiell first took over the program in 2016. The shots are not falling, the tempo is slow, and at times the ball movement is sloppy.
This year's team is an offensive mess.
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