1981 grad

Their guard Larry is in a duel with LCJ and thus far it is a tie. Trimble can hit the 3 ball but his layups suck. Enjoy the offense in this game. The Zips D does not look very strong. Miami looks quicker than us forcing Reese to defend the hoop. LCJ cannot keep Larry in front of him. Looks like this game will go to the wire.

And worth mentioning once during a national broadcast? (I know beating a dead horse but I am still pissed LOL)

If that is the case than I rather have lower echelon announcers who will put some prep into the game and just not drone on to hear themselves speak. Dakich did not bother to read the press guide and did not know the players. The only players he mentioned were Pippin, Jackson and Tribble.

And he was not mentioned once during a national broadcast. ESPN should be embarassed!!!

Was anybody else suprised to see Wynn bring the ball up the floor in the last 3 minutes. He threw an errant pass that led to a turnover. Not sure what the logic is on that move.

There is no way we should have let them get that close. I loved the tweet (not sure who tweeted that) that indicated Dakich talked more about Bowling Green than Kent and Akron Surprised he would read that on the air. I hope I never hear that guy again. Worst annoucer ever!!

LCJ missed the front end of 1 and 1 twice. Never seen that happen.

The last 5 minutes Akron has played some ugly basketball. Luckily, Kent has not taken advantage. I like how LCJ can beat the press without any help. He is so quick.

We have been pounding the offensive boards tonight. Tribble has been very aggressive. I think LCJ has missed 4 layups tonight. He has been amazing penetrating to the hoop but I have gotten used to him finishing those shots.

I just read the bio on Dakich. I did not know he was the Bowling Green coach for 10 years. As a former coach, you would think he would do some prep before annoucing a game. It is obvious he knows nothing about the players and just talking about what he knows about the MAC to years ago. I know it should''t bother me but the annoucers have been so much better than what we have tonight.

I really don't think Akron is playing that well but Kent looks terrible. Their bad shooting cannot last all night. Akron has missed a lot of easy shots close to the basket. LCJ has had some great penetration and dish to open players. The wild card in this game is Trimble is on a hot shooting night. He has probably made 4 or 5 threes and some from real distance. I love Freemans defense. He is really a rim protector tonight. Lets hope Kent stays cold the 2nd half and Trimble keeps his hot hand.

Freeman has 4-5 blocks and numerous rebounds and I have yet to hear his name once. If your going to announce the game, spend 10 minutes reading something about the players!!!!!

Ok, did they shoot the T or not. These announcers suck!!!! The do not know the players and already given baskets to the wrong guy twice, do not know that KD coached the team and are talking about Hipsher having great success at Akron, and they will not shut up.

He slimmed down and got quicker. Toward the latter part of the season he was getting more playing time and then he let a guy drive the basket and did not contest the layup and got pulled and never saw the floor again. I thought of that when I saw Reese not contest a layup last game. With Riak and Reese in front of him, he could not afford to make any mistakes. I think this year he would have had Freeman and Reese to contend with and not sure how much time he would have gotten. Glad to see he is doing well.

When is the last time we won in their building. I know that I have gone to a ton of games there and it seems like I always come home disappointed. I remember one game where they won on a last second drive to the basket and the Kent player took 5 steps to get to the basket. I yelled at the bald headed ref but he ran off the floor and did not call a travel. (LOL)

I said this before but Dailey has not been very good on the road. I liked that he slashed to the basket early 2 times even though he could not finish at the basket. I wish he would have kept slashing to the basket but he only put up 5 shots. The starting lineup needs a consistent second scorer, like Cheese I just wonder if Groce will pull him as a starter at some point during the season.

Wynn had a great dunk but defense, rebounding, and boxing out keeps you on the floor. He needs to work on those areas of the game.

Basically, their 7 guys outplayed our 10 guys. So much for wearing them down with our depth. Groce has to get these guys to play better defense and rebound better against talented team. No doubt about it, Toledo has 7 talented guys.

Thanks for posting Huggins comments because that is the Akron offense. However, when I watched Toledo I thought they ran their offense better than the Zips. If you watch a replay of the game see how close they run off their screens and quickly they move off the ball. Their offense did create more space for their shooters because of their better off the ball motion. I disagree with BigZip that LCJ is a ball hog. He does dribble a lot and took twice as many shots as anyone else but he is the only one that could penetrate the Toledo defense. Dailey had a couple great slashing moves to the basket but could not finish. Trimble is a one dimentional 3 point shooter. Ali has some nice moves but is not a great scorer. Freeman's offense is limited to the pick and roll. Reese has some great post moves and really contributed last night. Tribble and Dawson wer not a factor last night. Groce's offense is to have the ball in the hands of his best playmaker and we are second in the MAC. Looking at the box score we lost this game because Toledo shot the ball better from field 50%, from the 3 point line, 45% and from the foul line, 89%. Also, they outrebounded us by 10 whereas we outrebounded them by 10 at the Jar. I saw at least one or 2 occasions where Wynn did not box out his man. That has to change. Rebounding is about boxing out and hustling and we lost that battle. I also would have tried to have their Jackson pick up that last foul by isolating him on defense. He really makes their team go.

I thought it was better than that but they did start out cold. They seem to be making a lot of outside shots.

They must be shooting close to 65%. Our defense is not that bad but they are just making all of their shots. I liked how Dailey drove to the hoop even though he could not finish. At some point in time Toledo is going to start missing again.

We are going to have to shoot well to stay in this game. When we beat them we shot 50% from the field. We also outrebound the rockets by 10. All of the starters shot 50% and they are going to need a good start to the game.

It took us 15 minutes to find our offensive flow. If we do that against Toledo we will be down by 20. Does anyone remember when Trimble was our reliable 2nd scorer after LBJ. That has not happened the first half the last few games. Ball State only had 8 guys dressed and it was clear that our defense wore them down. I just wish we had a consistent 2nd scorer or somebody that can create their own shot besides LBJ. I love the hustle on this team and they really seem to play intense defense. We just need to develop a better offense to start the game. When we ran down the shot clock in the first half that tells you the offense is simply not there. Great that we can win when we did not bring our A game in the first half.

I do not like Reeses defense on that drive to the basket. No way should you back off a guy taking it to the hoop. Glad to see Dailey driving to the basket and attempting to dunk the ball even though he did not finish. No surprise Marshall has not gotten in the game. He is at the end of the bench. I like what Tribble said about the difference between college and high school, you have to play defense in college. I did not know Ali was a scorer in high school. Said his career high was 35 points.

Love to see the players interviewing each other. Much better than having them sit down with an announcer. Great idea!! Zips started out of the gate very slow again. No flow to their offense and then we resort to the 3 ball. I liked how Ali made a move to his left and sunk a short jump shot. Even before he got hurt, Trimble was struggling. Dailey is having a tough game and missed a breakaway layup. Dawson once again is having a great game. Got to get him more time. LCJ has been dribbling too much but the shot right before the half was amazing. Switched to the left hand when the guy jumped into his shot. Hopefully, can continue with the great defense and rebounding and blow them out in the second half.