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We do what we do best..choke in a big game, especially if it is on national tv:

I don't complain about refs often but we're getting homered

I hate watching the Zips lose to Kent because afterwards it makes me feel like going on a 17 state killing spree.

Akron really missed Pat as a compliment/backup to Big Dog. Big Dog couldn't do anything defensively down low most of the second half because of foul trouble. Akron, a good three point shooting team, did the opposite. Kent, a bad three point defending team and bad free throw shooting team, did the opposite. Just an anomaly. On to the next game.

So...my turn to rant. Cant fans are a-holes. They actually booed Jake when he when had to go out with a racing heartbeat. I made sure to explain his heart problems rather loudly and heard stuff along the lines of "well how are we supposed to know?" behind me. Bottom line is that booing a guy who is clearly in a ton of pain, clutching his chest, and forcing the game to be stopped is just absolutely classless. A lot of stuff about Kent really makes me mad but this got my blood boiling. The guy behind me must have felt slighted by my evident annoyance and decided that he would clap as loudly as possible directly into my ear non-stop the entire rest of the game, which was just delightful. Plenty of rude jeers as well. Also, I thought it was kind of a lame crowd. They got up towards the end, but i just didn't feel the same buzz that I always feel for these games. Noticeably short from being a packed house, too. I know the Akron student section is often pretty poor, but Kent's was about as unenthusiastic as I've seen a student section at a rivalry game, at least at my end of the court. Band played about the same 5 songs over and over. Akron's band/dance/cheerleaders >>>>>>>> Kent's. As for the actual game, Kent sure picked a great time to hit seemingly every single shot and Akron picked an awful time to hit none of them. Nearly everything that could've gone wrong did go wrong, it seemed. Special shoutout to the refs for taking Kwan and Big Dog out of the game and making it impossible to defend the last ~5 minutes (not that we were doing much of that anyways). I'm just in a very anti-Kent mood. Tonight was a major bummer. On a positive note, I was doing some research and we have sent the Flushes home from Cleveland 4 out of the past 5 years. Can't wait to make it 5 in 6 this year.

Old timers, remember how much you hated standing in line in Spicer Hall to register for classes? That's how much I hate watching Khaliq Spicer.

This game was not an anomaly. Kent played a great game and exposed our weaknesses to the dribble drive on defense. KD likes to play tough in your face defense. However, when you get in the face of your opponent you have to keep the guy in front of you. Kent continually drove past our defender forcing help from inside exposing Big Dog and Kwan to foul trouble. Further, Jake and Reggie are not athletic enough to be rim defenders. Without Pat, it would have been better to lay off Kent and force them to take the outside shot. They are not a good shooting team from the outside. We simply must do a better job of preventing Kent from getting past the first defender penetrating to the basket. On the offensive end, Kent did not double team Big Dog and had a big night. But that meant our outside shooters were rarely getting open looks with passes from Big Dog. Jake and Reggie only took 9 shots and Jake's shots came at the end of the game when it was almost out of reach. The Kent defenders played in your face defense and Antino made some great moves to the basket but simply was not able to consistently finish at the basket. On Kwan's three that tied the game, it was from a Josh penetration. We rarely penetrated the Kent defense to get open looks off passes to the shooters. Antinno and Noah shot 3 of 18 from behind the 3 line and every shot was off the dribble, not from a pass. We only had 9 assists last night. KD has 2 weeks to figure out how to get his players open looks when there is no double team on Big Dog.

Noah had a terrible game on offense, defense, and had 4 turnovers. I have no clue why he plays a man close 40 feet from the basket. They blow by him every time. Without Pat we just did not have the interior defense after the Kent guards blew by our guards. Maybe the big crowd on national TV got to him but one of the worst games I have ever seen him play. Reggie missed an open 3 when the game was tied and that seemed to be the turning point. Although Antino did not shoot the ball well he played with a lot of intensity on defense and looked like he did not want to lose this game. Big Dog was amazing. Kent did not double team him and figured that without Pat that they would wear him out. They were wrong! When he picked up his 4th foul there was almost no interior defense. Kent was athletic around the rim and without a rim protector we were doomed. KD did not use Ivey because he was so bad last game but he is our most athletic guy and we could have used him tonight. I think the league title could go down to the last game and I hope we have Pat back.

Kwan is getting royally effed on these calls

I felt like this was a repeat of a few games ago, where our opponent decided to put pressure on the wings and guards, and let Kwan shoot the long range jumpers. That game, he hit them. This game, those shots were all over the place. Lets face it, these guys were athletic and quick enough to fight through the screens and stay with all of our primary long-range shooters. Reggie wasn't "non-existent". They made him non-existent by never giving him much of any makeable looks. Why the criticism from a few of you about saying we could run the table? As I've made known, it was stupid to talk about it in January. But, winning these last 5 games of the schedule should have been very doable. Instead, we're now going to have to battle for this title again, and now need Ken+ to lose another game, or they are coming to Akron in a couple of weeks with a chance to steal the title from us with the tiebreaker. I'll definitely be rooting for Buffalo to beat them on Tuesday in Canada.

K.e.n.t deserved to win that game. They out hustled us all night long. And it wasn't even close. Disappointing effort. (Except for Big Dog. He was beast.)

This movie is all too familiar. The usual pattern is to now go down to Miami and lose to last place team. I wouldn't say refs were bad. Our best free throw shooters missed front ends of one and ones. We do the same thing over and over again each year and expect different results

Noah has had about 5 lazy pass turnovers, played no defense and hasn't had any semblance of an offensive game. That is why he was riding the bench.

"the Big Dog just ate a squirrel"... Umm what

Luke Getsy named Packers WR coach. http://m.packers.com/news/video/luke-getsy-ready-to-help-wrs-reach-their-peak-196670d3-1ec1-4009-a540-afe11ac588c5?%3Fcampaign%3D=sf21157850+sf21157850

I'd certainly hope we have another big ready to enter the rotation next year otherwise we are an injury away from disaster. It also wouldn't bode well for us the year after since we would lose both Cheatham and Big Dog and have 0 bigs on our roster with playing experience.