Change To Practice Times

[GoZips]

The start time for this weekend's men's basketball practices have been changed.

Friday practice starts at 5 PM (actual start time will be 5:30 per NCAA rules)

Saturday practice starts at noon and runs until 4 PM

Sunday practice starts at 10 AM and runs until 2 PM

The public is invited to watch practice from the upper track area.

[ZachTheZip]

I think I'll have to check out a practice.

[Zipmeister]

The start time for this weekend's men's basketball practices have been changed.

Friday practice starts at 5 PM (actual start time will be 5:30 per NCAA rules)

Saturday practice starts at noon and runs until 4 PM

Sunday practice starts at 10 AM and runs until 2 PM

The public is invited to watch practice from the upper track area.

Why would we start at 5 if the NCAA says we can't start till 5:30? Are we trying to get a jump start on NCAA violations this season?

[GoZips]

Why would we start at 5 if the NCAA says we can't start till 5:30? Are we trying to get a jump start on NCAA violations this season?

Practice was allowed to start at five PM. The first fifteen or twenty minutes was all warmup and stretches.

Not likely that coach Dambrot has any interest in NCAA violations. The Zips have a really good team

in the making.

Reggie McAdams is pushing for lots of playing time. And, so is Pat Forsythe. These two men will quickly

alter the look of the Zips.

What a pleasure having two genuine and solid point guards in Abreu and Betancourt.

The players love the up tempo play. You will see a lot of fast breaks this season.

Years ago Houston (University there of) coined the phrase Phi Slamma Jamma. The Zips have resurected

this forgotten fraternity.

Come see for yourself at noon Saturday or ten AM Sunday.

[Hilltopper]

Got a chance to catch a couple of hours of practice today. The coaching staff was working off a list of about 30 drills. The pace was fast as they moved from one drill to the other. Each drill was a series of short bursts of high energy techniques. They worked on various plays but most of the time, the emphasis was on defense. As each drill was called out, the players either let out a groan or some other acknowledgment as to how they viewed that particular drill. The one that stood out was a drill called "West High". When that one was called everyone started hooping and hollering with anticipation. It was 5 on 5, half court, anything goes. No fouls called, no out of bounds. Think Rugby scrum. The team with the ball had to score how ever many points the coaches dictated and the defenders did what ever they had to preventing them from scoring. Every loose ball resulted in a pile of players scrapping. On one loose ball, Tree came barreling at the scorers table where we were seated and he was carrying Abreau on his back, who had both arms wrapped around him trying to stop him. It was 5 minutes of pure mayhem, but it was fun! Barberton HS BB coach Ken Rector was there observing and I asked him if he was going to run that drill with his team.LoL

[GoZips]

No practice Monday.

Coming week's practice schedule not yet released. But, probably practices Tuesday through Friday

beginning at 8:30 AM.

Sunday practice was just as intense as Friday and Saturday had been.

As hard as Dambrot pushes drills there is little need to run suicides. The competition is fierce. No one

has a free pass to a starting spot.

As tough as the practices are, the players seem to enjoy being demanded to produce. A lot more chatter

and player to player encouragement and applause than ever before. This team is serious.

Check out the snow job Hilltopper did over on the MAC boards.