KingZip Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Coaching lost the Toledo game, not the players.Peterson had the hot hand, but got the hook in favor of the "Coaches" players. Dambrot cannot say he wasn't playing because of defense because Dials was stinking up the joint not getting back on defense and falling asleep on the court. Your seniors should be on the floor down the stretch not an injured sophmore who could not buy a basket and was playing bad defense.Where was the leadership from the bench, or from the floor, when the Zips needed to get the ball in bounds after Toledo took their first lead of the game?Let's face it, Akron got fat this season on a weak MAC and when it came time to go balls out and win some big games down the stretch the only place they could do it was at home, which is where they are for tonight's final.The great home record over the last two years is a great accomplishment but with no major wins on the road it is hollow. ONE win on the road over Can't State, Buffalo, Miami, or Ohio this season and the Zips win the MAC East outright. Last year all the Zips had to do was win the season finale at Buffalo, or win at Can't or Miami and they would have won the MAC East.The failure to have his team prepared for road games is a telling sign for this coaching staff and their inability to get the team over the hump. Playing favorites at this time in the year is pathetic and is another reason why Akron has been an also-ran for the past two years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisj0384 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Coaching lost the Toledo game, not the players.Peterson had the hot hand, but got the hook in favor of the "Coaches" players. Dambrot cannot say he wasn't playing because of defense because Dials was stinking up the joint not getting back on defense and falling asleep on the court. Your seniors should be on the floor down the stretch not an injured sophmore who could not buy a basket and was playing bad defense.Where was the leadership from the bench, or from the floor, when the Zips needed to get the ball in bounds after Toledo took their first lead of the game?Let's face it, Akron got fat this season on a weak MAC and when it came time to go balls out and win some big games down the stretch the only place they could do it was at home, which is where they are for tonight's final.The great home record over the last two years is a great accomplishment but with no major wins on the road it is hollow. ONE win on the road over Can't State, Buffalo, Miami, or Ohio this season and the Zips win the MAC East outright. Last year all the Zips had to do was win the season finale at Buffalo, or win at Can't or Miami and they would have won the MAC East.The failure to have his team prepared for road games is a telling sign for this coaching staff and their inability to get the team over the hump. Playing favorites at this time in the year is pathetic and is another reason why Akron has been an also-ran for the past two years. Agreed fully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Coaching lost the Toledo game, not the players.Peterson had the hot hand, but got the hook in favor of the "Coaches" players. Dambrot cannot say he wasn't playing because of defense because Dials was stinking up the joint not getting back on defense and falling asleep on the court. Your seniors should be on the floor down the stretch not an injured sophmore who could not buy a basket and was playing bad defense.Where was the leadership from the bench, or from the floor, when the Zips needed to get the ball in bounds after Toledo took their first lead of the game?Let's face it, Akron got fat this season on a weak MAC and when it came time to go balls out and win some big games down the stretch the only place they could do it was at home, which is where they are for tonight's final.The great home record over the last two years is a great accomplishment but with no major wins on the road it is hollow. ONE win on the road over Can't State, Buffalo, Miami, or Ohio this season and the Zips win the MAC East outright. Last year all the Zips had to do was win the season finale at Buffalo, or win at Can't or Miami and they would have won the MAC East.The failure to have his team prepared for road games is a telling sign for this coaching staff and their inability to get the team over the hump. Playing favorites at this time in the year is pathetic and is another reason why Akron has been an also-ran for the past two years. KingZip is on fire today. Your posts today are some of the best we have read on this board in some time. Cutting through the crap in an edgy manner is always good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips88 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Thank you KingZip. I've got SO many freakin' thoughts running through my mind right now. What a crappy performance last night. Toledo literally ran us out of the house. We had no answer in transition or for their drives to the basket. Outrebounded 33-25 by a smaller team?! Preston with 2?! Who wanted that game more? TOO many LONG offensive droughts this year in our losses. No go-to guy on offense or defense. I hope Can't thoroughly kicks Toledo's ass tonight to emphasis how piss-poor we were last night and to show how you get it done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingZip Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 When it is a sudden death situation you want the people on the floor who have the most to lose.Peterson, Preston and Futch. Add in Middleton and Joyce for ball handling and you are set. You could have set concrete around Travis' feet in the last 5 minutes - he was a no where man. I about puked listening to him on the post game show and hearing him pop on how the team needed to look itself in the mirror. Shit, that freak needs to look no further than himself. He is so far away from being a top 10 MAC player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 We had no answer in transition or for their drives to the basket. Good point. The reason is that Akron is too slow to compete consistently against athletic teams. I don't know the difference between a 2-3 zone or a 1-3-1 zone or whatever, but I do know slow when I see it and we are slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingZip Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Akron is slow, but they get even slower when players are hot dogging to the crowd or bitching at the refs, causing them to get beat down the court. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RACER Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 give kd a break.kd did not miss the foul shots at the end of the game or let toledo get all those offensive rebounds.at the same time i dont know why he never let peterson play.toledo at one time had no one over 6'5 on the floor yet they were getting reboundsover our guys. no excuse for that.if wood does not come back next year 100% we are going to be in trouble on the boards. kd still won 19 and 22 games,and toledo was a hot team coming in the tourney;so i will cut kd some slack. hopefully we will get a chance to redeem oursleves in the nit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRasor0200 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Akron wasn't prepared on the road?They won every road game in which they were favored. Except the Buffalo game, each road loss was a close game. They came out firing against Can't State and Ohio. Against Miami, they had a shot to tie the game at the end of regulation.Keith Dambrot deserves very little blame for last night's game. The only fault I have with him is Akron's beyond-awful transition defense. It hurt the Zips against Western Michigan, but it crippled them against Toledo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Mike, Is it possible that you interview KD for the buchtellite ? you know there is a bunch of unanswered questions in the board that he might have good answers for...I'll start with a couple:1 - Doesn't DP deserve more minutes ?2 - How is he planning to face the Mac's big guys next year ? (Can't's 7 footers, buffalo's idbihi etc...) ? 3 - What the hell did he like in Mylum and Rybak when he recruited them ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zips Win! Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Coaching lost the Toledo game, not the players.Go and get Gary Waters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsbandman Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Peterson should have been in. What are we seeing that Dambrot is not seeing? And let it be known that ATHLETICISM won Toledo that game. Get off your butts coaching staff and get us some BASKETBALL PLAYERS not overachievers! I was very inpressed by their penetration and they really knew how to get off their feet.Dambrot has a lot of explaining to do about this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZipAlumn Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Coaching lost the Toledo game, not the players........................................................................Let's face it, Akron got fat this season on a weak MAC and when it came time to go balls out and win some big games down the stretch the only place they could do it was at home, which is where they are for tonight's final.Akron went 22-9 and that is NOT shabby. Sure they lost a couple games that they should have won, but anyone who has ever played sports knows that happens. They lost a game to a team (Toledo) that was much quicker, and got hot at the right time in the game. The season was not a disaster. Face it the Zips did not have height, quickness, or attitude all season, but still put together a good record. Congratulations to this team and coach. I am confident that these young players and young coach will learn from this season and come back stronger next year. I read posts all year about how great this team was, now I'm hearing how bad they stink. They are a good team that will get better, but they have to take the next step and get a few more athletes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Coaching lost the Toledo game, not the players.Go and get Gary Waters. It will never happen, but it would be nice. GW built a great program at Can't with kids from Detroit and other parts of Michigan where they play great basketball. I don't see Akron, Columbus and Cincinnati as hot beds of high school basketball.To carry on another point about overachievers that someone else made, overachievers always let you down in big games. Ultimately, big time players must play well in big time situations to win sporting events. The overachiever doesn't give you the ability to reach a championship level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 In football, a good coach figures out which plays/players are woking and which plays/players aren't working throughout the game and in the fourth quarter they run those plays/players to win the game. The same is typically true in every sport.The best question about what KD did Friday is, Did he have the best players on the court at the end of the game Friday? I don't think so. It's more important for him to know that against Toledo in the MAC semi-final game than against Dennison in a meaningless game in December.It was a sickening choke job by the players too......just sickening all around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigzipguy Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 KD did a good job this year. When you consider that they did not have J. Wood, he did an outstanding job. BUT!!!! He must accept some responsibility for that loss!!! When Toledo was making their run, they needed an additional scorer. Peterson is that player!!!Just because Linhart did a good job on the boards, against W. Mich, does not mean he will provide scoring punch against Toledo. Plus how many of you realize that Dials received a slight concussion in the Can't game!???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziplock Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Yes, KD and the staff does bear some responsibility and I am sure he would be the first to admit that fact.However, let us not forget where we have come from this year. I doubt that few of us could have imagined the level of success we would have achieved knowing that JWood was going to be out,Dials was probably not fully rehabbed, Peterson was plagued by some back problems, and Conyers could not compete this year.I, for one, feel that this group of men were playing on fumes towards year's end, and it was KD and the staff that was able to squeeze a lot of effort out of them that, in the not too distant past, was simply not there.Two successful seasons and much more on the horizon leaves me wanting to see us wreak more havoc on our foes next year. And next year cannot start soon enough.Watching the Can't fans storm the floor yesterday made me kind of ill as it COULD have been us. But I am confident that our time will come...soon!Go Zips!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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