Dr Z

Martin about Flemming-“Having been in the MAC East for the last six years, he knows the teams we’re going to play..." Yep, that about sums it up. Reminds me of the episode when Homer thought he was going to die during the night because he ate a poisonous blow fish. He went around to his family before bed and said nice things to them. He goes to tuck Bart into bed, thinks for a bit, and says "Bart...I like your sheets"

Thanks for posting this ZB. I agree and disagree. I understand where KD says the team isn't good enough. But I disagree in not doing it. I think more can be gained by losing to a good team than beating a bad team (a couple times early in the schedule).BTW I wonder if his team considers it an insult when he says they aren't good enough for a tougher schedule?

I don't know who TimZip is, but he should quit taking credit for others work.Still one of my favorites:

Buford, one of my all time favorite Zips. Dude could dunk. I remember the team marketing poster that year. I think it said SHOWTIME at the top and had our starting 5 in tuxes, left hand extending a basketball and right hand behind them high in the air. At least that's the way I remember it. Did they have top hats on?Where Are They Now?

That's the way I read half these posts. If you told me today that we will end up in the NIT, no I wouldn't be excited, because our goal right now is the big dance and any time you miss your goal your not excited. If we get in the NIT, the day they announce the pairings, I'll be excited. The day of our (proposed) NIT game, I'll be excited. When we (hopefully) win an NIT game I'll be excited. If we get to the final four in the NIT, I'll probably say to myself, hmmm maybe it was better to make the NIT then go to the big dance and get beat in the first round. But I WANT TO WIN A GAME IN THE DANCE. Everybody loves those first round games and those are the most exciting games. Winning one of those games will go a long way for our program. I'm pretty sure everyone feels like this, no?

I'm opposite. I like it. I hope it toughens our team up. I'm excited about Kentucky and plan on going. I bet the players from last year feel like they owe IU one. They know they can play with em with PN16 at the helm.

Did he say "it may be cold out today but Akron and Ken+ are going to heat up the JAR on Friday"?

That's the best news I heard about the schedule so far. I'll be out of town and now I will be able to see it.

Wouldn't you have to break out each conference to show a true result? You could basically do that with any conference showing the higher one with a higher RPI number? What does it prove?

Two home dates during Holidays that I'm out of town.

It's not that they cheat for one team as much as they seem to have personal vendettas against certain players. No ref has a vendetta against anybody.

It will be interesting to see if they run the 3-3-5. I suspect they won't.The biggest kick in the teeth to me would be that they run the 3-3-5 and do it successfully.What a change in facilities for Flemming!?!?!

I let complaining about mac basketball referring go about 5 years ago. Mac refs stink, they don't cheat for one team, they just stink. I have learned that I notice more about the game and the players when I don't focus on the referees. It helps me enjoy the game more. It might be sad, but it helped me.

I give up.

I like what Dambrot said he told the kids about Fridays game. Something like, as big as this game is on Friday, the next one will be bigger.

Zeke played less because he was in foul trouble. NOBODY'S minutes were effected by "rest". Run your numbers six ways till Tuesday, read KD's quote. MG.

A 20 year old kid gets to play the game of basketball for 28 minutes on a Saturday afternoon. Sounds fun to me. The bus ride there and back will wear them out more. Plus or minus 9 or so minutes of playing time isn't going to make a hoot of difference for being "rested"...especially with Dambrot's rotations.Post game interview with Steve French today. Keith Dambrot "You try to win every game, I wasn't resting anybody today"Now you know.

I would like to have a word with the person who designed that pamphlet they made for the event... What didn't you like about it? Didn't look that bad to me.It looks like a 10 year old made it in Microsoft Paint. Honestly, that is a little embarrassing how bad that is. You think they could have spent 20 minutes and made it look nice.I don't understand why these type of things aren't given to upper class design students. There are 60 good designers dying to put pieces in their portfolio.Is 'Design at 9' still around? Knowing the way these things go, somebody told some assistant they needed an ad for this by 5 pm. Assistant opens up Microsoft Word (death to good design), cut and pastes in some photos and info, bam, you got another design nightmare by somebody that has no training in design. 50 percent of the people that look at it will say, "I don't see anything wrong with it" Now have a real designer work on it, show that same person the result and that person says "wow that looks awesome" Point is, if you use talent to create, you will get much better results with your message.

Bad move, will be know as the Big M@xi P@d.

Here is the rest of the quote: "For as much depth as we have, we tire at times. They (Buffalo) move us around so much. They (Buffalo) make you play through that whole clock, so it becomes difficult." I'm pretty sure KD was speaking specifically about Buffalo. It's hard to tell since I only have 3 sentences of the quote pulled from Rasor's site. My guess is that the minutes stay true to EXACTLY what KD has done the last month. Unless there is some crazy match up with BG that I am unaware of, or an injury occurs. I have never been for sitting an athlete to get them "rest". If they need rest, they aren't conditioned proper. I would think every player in the college basketball can play 28 minutes per game at this time of the season without needing "rest" to play in the next game which is SIX days away. At this point and time of the season they should be focused on playing the rotation they are going to play in the mac tournament to get more experience playing together. I think that is WAY more important than getting "rest" If someone is mentally tired, give them a day off of practice, not time off in the game. You can never simulate game time experience.

A 20 year old kid gets to play the game of basketball for 28 minutes on a Saturday afternoon. Sounds fun to me. The bus ride there and back will wear them out more. Plus or minus 9 or so minutes of playing time isn't going to make a hoot of difference for being "rested"...especially with Dambrot's rotations.

Here's a quote from KD after the Buffalo game I found on Mike's blog "I thought Ronnie Steward played well. He's the best on-the-ball defender we have."

If there was an award for best 27 seconds of defense by an individual this year, it would go to Ronnie for his play against Rhode Island.

Play to win.

You remember right, nice play.