1981 grad

I feel like I am watching an Akron football game. I have had enough of Trimble firing away from 3. I am glad he made one but that has to be 2 for 25. Groce wants him to shoot out of his slump. Great, but I am done watching it.

The second half starts same as the first. One turnover and 3 missed 3 shots. What about those law of averages.

When KD was coach, we had great shooters but we were not athletic and everybody on this board indicated that Akron should recruit athletes, we can always teach ball players to shoot. Maybe we were wrong. (LOL)

I think there may be less complaining if the game had been on ESPN plus for free. However, many of us spent $30 to watch this tournament and expected a Zips team that was ready to compete. Also, I stated during the Wheeling and Point Park thread that those games were a waste of time and did nothing to prepare the team for the season. This game seems to prove my point.

This is what happens when you have no senior leadership. When we would get in these shooting funks last year LCJ would drive to the hoop and dish for a basket or hit a jumper. Ali, Trimble, Tribble, just could not spark anything. Freeman was the only one who could score and they had some nice blocks on him in the second half. Lets hope this game is a abberation. After football and soccer, we are all looking for redemption in our b ball program.

Disagree, this is worse. VCU was a good team that played pressure defense against an undermanned Akron squad. What is our excuse in this game, the arena is too big?

Can we sum up the week for Akron sports: Freeze my butt off to watch Akron soccer lose to a crappy Santa Clara team. Akron football gets killed by Kent State and cannot score on a Kent State defense that sucks, (had the good sense to stay away from that one) and I pay $30 to watch Akron Basketball lose by 25 points to the worse team in the A 10 by 30 points and goes 0 for 20 from the 3 line. Go Zips!!!!!!!

They might get suspcious when a dozen people from Akron make the same claim. (LOL)

Akron cannot even hit a foul shot. The wheels have come off the wagon. Even the annoucers are hoping that the Zips will hit a 3. I don't think I have ever seen such a bad shooting team.

Ali cannot hit the broad side of a barn from distance and takes a 3 point shot about 8 feet behind the 3 line. If I were Groce, I would pull him. Clark then takes an off balence 3. The only thing that has worked is feeding the ball inside to Freeman. Where is the teamism?

Far worse!! We cannot hit a 3 and the shots are not even close. The only thing that is working is feeding the ball to Freeman inside. I still think that playing Wheeling and the other crap team did nothing to help prepare the Zips for this game. Probably the worst shooting half in recent history. I can only recall Trimble and Castanada hitting jump shots. We must be 0 for 10 on 3 pointers. Everything as been short or well off the mark.

The Zips look sluggish offensively. Bandango reminds me of Zeke in his first year. Much better defensively than on offense.

Wow, the arena is empty. Almost like a scrimmage. The feed is very good. Looking forward to the game.

Thanks for the information.

What is the information for watching this online or TV. Can someone fill me in on the subscription service referred to above.

I would rather them schedule a team that they did not have to pay to come into the jar. How does a 7 foot center learn anything when his defender is 6-5?

Ali needs confidence. I cannot tell you how many times I have watched him make a move and then stop in the lane and look to pass. At the Ohio State game on his 4 point play he knew exactly what he wanted to do and did it. He needs to show the same confidence when driving to the hoop. A coach once told me that if you take the ball to the hoop strong you either get blocked, get a layup or get fouled. Any time you have a basketball play where 2 out of 3 results are good then that is a good play.

I was surprised to see Tavia Dunn Martin transfer. He went with KD to Duquene. Does anyone know why he transferred? Was he the last player standing that KD took with him from Akron.

When you look at that picture you see a sea of empty seats. I know this was a terrible opponent but I am guessing that season tickets are way down this year because of covid and that people lost interest because we did not have any fans last year. I will be curious if we will see more butts in the stands if this team starts winning more games. I think it sucks for the players to play in an half empty Jar.

I liked the student section being in the lower level. They were loud during the game. They also had students behind the basket. I think the tables behind the basket without any seating does not make much sense. Who wants to stand to watch the game? Walton and Castanada are going to be good this year. Bandango is a work in progress. He just seems a little awkward around the basket. He also had problems picking up a a pass on a give and go. However, he is a shot blocker on Defense. They took a lot of 3 balls this game and shot a decent percentage. A lot of sloppy play from both teams but that is to be expected. Difficult to assess the team when the competition is not high quality.

Thanks, the excitement continues to build for the Zips first home basketball game in almost 2 years.

As a season ticket holder I would like to say I am excited about this game but then I read the press guide about Point Park and still cannot figure out if they are division 1, 2, 3 or NAIA. If we are going to play a game against a team from Pittsburgh, how about the Dukes instead of Point Park so we can settle whether Groce or KD has a better team. Who schedules these teams and do they have any idea how to build excitement for Akron Basketball. To follow up a game against Ohio State with a team that lost to Lawrence Tech just does not make much sense to me. I will be curious to see if there are 1000 people at the Jar.

There was a play before the touchdown where our safety did the same thing. He let the receiver run past him but the pass was overthrown and incomplete. The safeties are looking at the quarterback and are not watching the receivers as they run down the field past them.

Losing a buzzer beater to Ohio State when 2 defenders leave a guy wide open under the basket. Watching our safeties in football let a receiver run past them to score a winning touchdown in the last minute. Obviously, this is not Zip heaven but must be the other place.

You have to give the Zips credit coming back and coming back. Gibson is playing a great game. That is 2 great games in a row. The offense has life. Can the defense hold again?