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...and easily gave up 25 to 30 points through no effort on defense... He's closer to being Kevin Malone than Kevin Durant.

Bates is out and not on their bench.

I suspect X may be ailing from something tonight.

Stan Heath should be out of a job tomorrow morning. The effort he's getting from these kids is EMBARRASSING. Groce needs to get anyone of any value out of this one. No need to risk an injury against a team that quit 45 minutes ago.

If a conference is only as good as its worst teams, the MAC is in trouble.

"The life's been taken out the arena in this second half." He really said that. LOL.

'moni gonna get his...

Bates has scored 8 points, given up 28.

Eastern is LAST in the MAC in team defense and the broadcast guy says 'if there's one weakness in the EMU defense is that they bite on pump fakes." You can't make this **** up.

Nate is feeling it! @1981 grad woke him up!

Yikes. Another double foul.

At least he puts pressure on the defense, unlike everyone except X and Enrique.

Uninspired effort by the Zips so far.

Bates 35 feet from the ball, on the opposite side of the floor, clapping his hands to call for the ball. LMAO.

Nice crowd.

Sammy pretty active.

Sammy in.

I noticed that. Waiting to see of Sammy comes in or is out sick.

https://gozips.com/news/2023/2/13/mens-basketball-akron-travels-for-rematch-with-eagles

Wow, good info. From reading on here I was under the impression that the program was suffering from a lack of support, financial and otherwise, from the administration. That does not appear to be the case.

Here's to Greg Tribble getting up in Emoni's grill and frustrating him all night. I think a smaller faster aggressive defender is the way to combat Emoni. Lord knows that coaching staff won't think to post him up!

I love Enrique. He's a great player at this level. However, there's a name for 6'7" guys in the NBA- small forward. He doesn't have the skill set to play the 3 in the NBA. He may well have a nice career in Europe, but it won't be in the NBA. He's also in for a great future outside of basketball. Very smart, great personality. I'd buy stock in that kid.

Here's one. It's not the one I was thinking of but it's still pretty good.

I think the times are a little different too. There's not nearly the emphasis on having a big man (6'9" and up) that there was 10 years ago. Coaches want mobile kids that can get up and down the floor now. Also, KD was here for 13 years and really had only 2 premier big men (Zeke and Big Dog). All others were undersized guys that played bigger (e.g. Travis, Treadwell, Wood...).

Groce certainly gets no credit for getting Freeman to Akron but should get a great deal of credit for his development. All you need to do is see his old Akron Canton Pro Am league tapes to understand that development.