JUCO centers

[Dr Z]

If we are just talking about a player to fill some time, why are we so concerned about him leaving? We need to do much better than that.

I agree. It will be interesting to see where he transfers, that will speak volumes. I wish him luck and hope he had a good time at Akron. I thought there was a photo in the pd or bj of him riding around laughing on somebody's back after we won the mac championship. I can't find it though.

[Zipmeister]

So which of these student athletes do you think is a quick fix for Akron?

None of them have Akron listed as a school in the running for their services.

Only one has a school of a similar quality as Akron on their list.

The 3 lowest rated candidates have no schools on their list and one of them is only 6'8".

dude, can the condascending tone....as for your question...i have no clue, but you never know

here's your sign.

whatever that means....if you wanna contribute pls do so,....if you wanna act like a douche...take it somewhere else

OK, step outside and let's settle this like men.

By the way, Eastern Europe and

P.S. try Goggling "here's your sign"

[Dave in Green]

There is no way Zeke can play 40 minutes lol

Zeke played more than 30 minutes in several games this season. He seemed to gain a little endurance as the season wore on. Most of his 20-minute games were due to foul trouble. If he continues training hard and building endurance, and if he can learn to stay out of foul trouble, I see no reason why Zeke couldn't average 30 minutes per game or slightly more next season. That would leave only 10 minutes or less per game when the Zips would be playing without a true center. Heck, many college teams don't even have a single true center, and only a few have a true center backup.

[RowdyZip]

So which of these student athletes do you think is a quick fix for Akron?

None of them have Akron listed as a school in the running for their services.

Only one has a school of a similar quality as Akron on their list.

The 3 lowest rated candidates have no schools on their list and one of them is only 6'8".

dude, can the condascending tone....as for your question...i have no clue, but you never know

here's your sign.

whatever that means....if you wanna contribute pls do so,....if you wanna act like a douche...take it somewhere else

OK, step outside and let's settle this like men.

By the way, Eastern Europe and

P.S. try Goggling "here's your sign"

How do you goggle?

[Zipmeister]

So which of these student athletes do you think is a quick fix for Akron?

None of them have Akron listed as a school in the running for their services.

Only one has a school of a similar quality as Akron on their list.

The 3 lowest rated candidates have no schools on their list and one of them is only 6'8".

dude, can the condascending tone....as for your question...i have no clue, but you never know

here's your sign.

whatever that means....if you wanna contribute pls do so,....if you wanna act like a douche...take it somewhere else

OK, step outside and let's settle this like men.

By the way, Eastern Europe and

P.S. try Goggling "here's your sign"

How do you goggle?

lol seriously

[Blue & Gold]

If we are just talking about a player to fill some time, why are we so concerned about him leaving? We need to do much better than that.

I agree. It will be interesting to see where he transfers, that will speak volumes. I wish him luck and hope he had a good time at Akron. I thought there was a photo in the pd or bj of him riding around laughing on somebody's back after we won the mac championship. I can't find it though.

Exaclty. I really hope he had a lot of fun while here at Akron, made some good, lasting friendships, still (like Swiech) considers himself a Zip, enjoys flashing that bling he gets from being on a MAC Championship team, doesn't have any regrets or hard feelings at all, and finds a program where he can get significant playing time.

[Blue & Gold]

[GoZips]

Keep Zeke out of foul trouble, get him in shape, add 30 pounds and play him 40 minutes a game....problem solved.

Actually it is not that easy.

I wrote about this previously. I will reiterate what I wrote.

There are two major factors involved. One is the pituitary gland the other is the testicles.

The pituitary controls growth. In Zeke's case his veritcal growth. Doctors can predict a

person's potential height by measuring the gap between their petalla and the bone. In an

adult this gap is tiny. In a young person it can be fairly wide. As the person grows this

gap shrinks. The gap is useful because it can predict the height the person will obtain.

In Zeke's case that height was determined to be seven-three. That is one large human

being. Zeke recently (during the basketball season just past) passed through seven-one.

Zeke still has some growing to do.

Independent to the actions caused by the pituitary gland is another hormone ... testosterone.

Testosterone controls the growth of a child into a man. While complicated and beyond the

scope of this discussion we know that testosterone is what makes a boy "fill out" and become

a man. A man possesses a torso that roughly resembles an inverted triangle and is packed

with muscle. LeBron had his testosterone kick in when he was a mid-teen giving him a

manly physic by the time he was a junior in high school. This has not happened thus far

to Zeke. It will. When it does; Zeke will pack on plenty of muscle as he is on a strenuous

weight lifting schedule as part of his basketball. All I can say is be patient. Its coming.

I am an old man. I have weight lifted off and on all my life. I resumed weight lifting back

in January and already my upper arms are thicker and more muscled than Zeke. Not bragging.

Merely pointing out the difference between a man and a young man still growing "up" (in more

ways than one). Be patient.

[zen]

yar... some people just call that "man strength".

I can bench more than twice now than what I could when I was 17.

Your post seemed a bit deliberated and slightly clinical, but I agree with what you say, GoZips, but with one exception; It takes an above average amount of natural anabolic/androgenic blood chemistry to fill out a guy with a 7'-3" frame. He will get stronger and more athletic but he may or may not become a beast. I wouldn't stake a lot of loot on it.

[Dave in Green]

Like snowflakes, no two human bodies develop exactly the same. When I look at Zeke, I never imagine him turning into a thick wide body. The player I tend to think of when I look at Zeke is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who became the dominant player in the NBA for many years. Kareem was always a finesse player, not a beast in the sense of a Dwight Howard or Shaquille O'Neal. I don't see Zeke coming remotely close to O'Neal's 325 pounds or even Howard's 265, as they have totally different body types.

Not many people realize it, but Kareem was 7-2 yet weighed only 225. Think about it. Zeke is already within 1 inch and a couple pounds of Kareem's playing height and weight. If Zeke can develop a reasonable fraction of Kareem's skills, he could do some serious damage in the NBA, let alone the MAC.

Side story: Back in the 1970s, I was sitting in the lobby of a major corporation in the Los Angeles area waiting to be called into a meeting. About 20 feet away, 3 people were seated on a couch and a chair -- 2 caucasians and a black guy. I looked at them casually and didn't recognize any of them. Seated, they all appeared to be about the same height. As they stood up, the 2 white guys were up first, and then the black guy stood up, and up, and up. He towered over the other 2 guys by a foot. It was none other than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I never realized how much of his height was in his legs until I saw him unfold from that couch. It's a memory I'll never forget.