NWAkron

While watching one of the MAC games over the weekend (maybe it was Broncos/Zips) the announcers talked about shooting 3s with the inside out movement. They mentioned that there is a rhythm to that pass and shoot that raises the likelihood of a basket. I'm not sure on the 15 footers they get the same set and shoot.

I wasn't necessarily serious when I put that out there. But, for example, PCCC goes to NIU tomorrow night and in the past you may expect NIU to pull off an upset at home but it doesn't seem like that is going to happen this year with the bottom feeders. https://getsomemaction.com/stats.aspx?path=mbball&year=2022&conf=true

the heart wants what it wants.

Miami made two bad coaching hires that cost them 10 years. Credit to Williams and Van Horn et al for allowing Groce to fall into their lap and having the good sense to snatch him up.

the grass is always greener over the septic tank

Too soon? http://bball.notnothing.net/mac.php?sport=mbb

With Ohio and Buffalo struggling, one can see how PCCC could run the table this year. The first week of March, you can't count on the Bobcats to knock off Pinky in Athens.

Watching the Buffalo/Toledo game and could tell the announcers were getting bored at the end. No intensity. Lay ups at will. I was half joking when I wrote yesterday that Pinky got lucky having his best team in a crappy MAC year. But I may have been on to something. I saw that EMU gets another Friday night game on 2/3. That had to be the Bates factor. Zips are beating low level competition.

How is Travis Steele related to Groce? I heard brother, half-brother, and step-brother.

Zips will move further ahead as the best defensive team in the MAC

Never a doubt. MAC is tough this year. best ever. Zips is great position.

they can't be making more than a few hundred bucks per game. 4 fouls on Norman.

Inauspicious start to the half. Man, I knew Western was going to come out and blow this open. The MAC isn't good this year. Unless Toledo can be something other than typical Toledo, PCCC picked the right year to have their best team in decades.

Poor shooting and some missed FTs but a lead at half. No idea how this one will go.

WMU was a dangerous team last year with a bad coach. More dangerous this year.

WMU is ripe to pick off a MAC contender. Likely going to be today.

A sense of "unease" leading up to this game which is less than a "bad feeling" and a lot less than the "overwhelming feeling of dread" I usually experience during MAC tournament time.

The Zips players are tough as nails and I hold no misconceptions that they are perfect angels on and off court and in the lockerroom. And the Kostelac incident was a black eye. But the Flashes are low hanging fruit on this issue.

Whatever. Please. This is a sports message board. That's what we do at times. Trash the rivals. And BTW, they have a history of this going back to Singletary's gut punch. And the antics at the JAR last year. We all don't like each other. That's the fun of it. As for your "play ball" comment, maybe you should have directed that toward the kent players who trashed the Zips on social media. They should worry about playing ball...not the anonymous denizens of Zipsnation

As for the Toledo/Buffalo game, the most interesting aspect is that I learned that Coach Whitesell comes from a fascinating family from Iowa Falls. Two of his brothers were Hollywood actors and a third is a billionaire Hollywood agent formerly married to Jeff Bezos' girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez.

They certainly re-grouped after the embarrassing loss in the MAC final. They came into that on a 14 game winning streak, having won 16 out of final 17 games. they have now doubled down on defense. They will force the Zips to shoot tough 3s and look for the transition basket. Ball State totally got punked at end of the first half. The announcers called it. We were giving Ball State a lot of props for beating the Zips. this was a dismal performance.

putting my bias aside, they do come off as arrogant pricks led by Santiago.

thanks!

The St Peters of Portage County

you know there's nothing wrong with having a B.S. and and maybe a MBA in your back pocket if the basketball thing doesn't work out or there's an injury.