ZachTheZip Posted January 24, 2014 Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 Central is the only team in the MAC without a conference win, at 0-5. They're another Zone D team. Their do-it-all sophomore Chris Fowler is the main player to watch out for, but if Akron guards him with lengthy players we can take him out of his game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted January 24, 2014 Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 Fowler is exactly the kind of PG the Zips wish they had right now. Last season he was runnerup MAC Freshman of the Year, finishing 32nd in the country in assists per game and fourth in the MAC behind DJ Cooper, Alex Abreu and Juice Brown. He's a great ball distributor and a lights out shooter. Although he's only hitting .318 of his 3s this season, his overall field goal average is an impressive .571, which means the 6-1 guard gets to the bucket a lot to average more than 17 points per game. Overall, CMU is a very young team. Their top 7 players in minutes played consist of a freshman, 5 sophomores and a junior. The Zips will have a height advantage as CMU has only 3 regulars in the 6-6/6-8 range. On paper the Zips are the better team. I wonder if Coach Dambrot will point out Ball State's upset of Buffalo to remind his players not to take this game too lightly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdt1420 Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 So is it just bad form or in some way illegal to steal a scoring and passing PG away from a conference foe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZippyforPresident Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 Fowler is exactly the kind of PG the Zips wish they had right now. Last season he was runnerup MAC Freshman of the Year, finishing 32nd in the country in assists per game and fourth in the MAC behind DJ Cooper, Alex Abreu and Juice Brown. He's a great ball distributor and a lights out shooter. Although he's only hitting .318 of his 3s this season, his overall field goal average is an impressive .571, which means the 6-1 guard gets to the bucket a lot to average more than 17 points per game. Overall, CMU is a very young team. Their top 7 players in minutes played consist of a freshman, 5 sophomores and a junior. The Zips will have a height advantage as CMU has only 3 regulars in the 6-6/6-8 range. On paper the Zips are the better team. I wonder if Coach Dambrot will point out Ball State's upset of Buffalo to remind his players not to take this game too lightly? Interestingly enough, Caremelo is hitting 33.3%, or one third, of his three point attempts this season, although he certainly has far fewer attempts than most. It would be very reassuring to see Carmelo add to, or at least remain consistent with, his performance at EMU. If this team is going to go places in March, he is the "spark plug" that is gonna get this Zips engine firing on all cylinders. Not because of his three point shooting prowess of course, but because of the innate fluidity the offense demonstrates with his presence. It certainly appeared as if this squad turned a corner at EMU. Hopefully. GO ZIPS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted January 25, 2014 Report Share Posted January 25, 2014 Interestingly enough, Caremelo is hitting 33.3%, or one third, of his three point attempts this season, although he certainly has far fewer attempts than most. It would be very reassuring to see Carmelo add to, or at least remain consistent with, his performance at EMU. If this team is going to go places in March, he is the "spark plug" that is gonna get this Zips engine firing on all cylinders. Not because of his three point shooting prowess of course, but because of the innate fluidity the offense demonstrates with his presence. It certainly appeared as if this squad turned a corner at EMU. Hopefully. GO ZIPS! LOL. If he continues to get 8 assists and 1 turnover per game, he'd probably break national records. He just needs to play smart, relaxed and patient. With a seemingly poor opponent tonight, it will be our chance to see if he might be able to put together a string of good performances. We need him, and I felt that he would eventually work his way back into some beneficial playing time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips88 Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Technical difficulties on the radio side? Still getting the national feed on 1350AM. Video stream seems fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsy Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Technical difficulties on the radio side? Still getting the national feed on 1350AM. Video stream seems fine. Video stream is terrible...choppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Roo Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Video stream is terrible...choppy. At least their picture is clearer than ours. Man, what a 2nd rate program we are. Sheesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lance99 Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Video stream is terrible...choppy. I can live with that, but the CMU announcers sound like they need to be calling High School games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickzips Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 At least their picture is clearer than ours. Man, what a 2nd rate program we are. Sheesh. I'll take our crummy picture over this horrendous choppiness any day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 The choppiness of this feed makes it nearly unwatchable! Slow start for us offensively. I like our chances though...solid defense against a mediocre MAC team will go a long way towards a win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips88 Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Chippewa radio feed Much better. WAY ahead time-wise of the video stream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Chippewa radio feed Much better. WAY ahead time-wise of the video stream. Good find, thanks. I switched to the radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips88 Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Frenchie and Joe are on 1350AM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDZip Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Gave up on the video feed - terrible. Switched to Frenchie on the net. The video feed is as bad as the Zips are playing this half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZipster0305 Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 I'll take being up 41-36 at half on the road and not playing particularly well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoZips88 Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Tried tuning in for the last 5 minutes of Miami at BGSU but that video feed off mac-sports.com is awful (choppy) too. Miami up 57-47 with 3:21 to go. Another nail in Orr's coffin assuming Miami holds on (unlike EMU earlier today). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickzips Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Zips can't keep anyone for CMU out of the lane. I'm pretty sure I could dribble drive on our defense in the first half. KD has to be laying into these guys in the locker room. Just a pathetic defensive effort. On offense we are getting anything we want as long as we don't turn the ball over (which we did a lot). Reggie, Q and Tree in particular are abusing these guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickzips Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Tried tuning in for the last 5 minutes of Miami at BGSU but that video of feed off mac-sports.com is awful (choppy) too. Miami up 57-47 with 3:21 to go. Another nail in Orr's coffin assuming Miami holds on (unlike EMU earlier today). Orr should have been fired a year ago. Nice guy. Not much of a basketball coach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 If the purpose of the new starting lineup was to get faster starts, it didn't work so well tonight. The Zips didn't really catch fire until the last 3 minutes of the first half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 If the purpose of the new starting lineup was to get faster starts, it didn't work so well tonight. The Zips didn't really catch fire until the last 3 minutes of the first half. To the average fan, things always look like they are working so well, when you have a guy burying 3's from the corner, like Jake was on Wednesday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 You mean the way CMU has been burying 3s over the last few minutes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Once again Nick has more than his fair share of the Zips' turnovers -- 5 of 15 so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomzip Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 Once again Nick has more than his fair share of the Zips' turnovers -- 5 of 15 so far. The guy needs to dribble every where he goes to learn how to do it in a game. "Hey there goes Nick to class, see him dribbling?" lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigzipguy Posted January 26, 2014 Report Share Posted January 26, 2014 This might be the worst free throw shooting team the Zips have ever had!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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