GP1 Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 I wonder how often Faust leans over and gives KD little bits of coaching brilliance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomzip Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Flat crowd just like the team, need a run to start the half Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtyolcrowe Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Dance team routine was hot!!! WHAT???????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtyolcrowe Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Dance team routine was hot!!! WHAT???????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Outhustled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrt Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 I wish KD would sit tree down for a moment damn. He's forcing everything right now. Let him rest for a moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msopher Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Your dance team is so much hotter (and better) than Toledo's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msopher Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Wow, Can't really sucks this year... But, good win Zips. Enjoyed watching the game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lance99 Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Gamer Over!On to Cleveland!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtyolcrowe Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 All that for a #4 seed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickzips Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Should have been a double-digit win. If we hit even our regular 63% from the line (which is admittedly putrid) we win relatively comfortably.Love Qs effort and hustle and his story, but a small part of me is glad that I no longer have to watch his boneheaded jawing and shoving at opposing players and coaches going into timeouts. You're 24 years old now Q. Time to grow up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 That was another painful game to watch, but with a happy ending. Deji lit the fire after the Zips got off to a slow start in the second half with lots of hustle and 8 straight points. Deji even got called out by ESPN as the Zips' Top Performer. He played tough D, as did Melo, and as did the Zips as a team in the second half after the fire was lit. Holding Can't to 22 points in the second half was about the only way the Zips were going to win, as they sure weren't going to do it with their field goal and free throw shooting alone. The Zips showed a lot of energy and intensity on D for most of the second half, and that was enough this time. Things will get a lot tougher at the Q. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippyfan34 Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Dambrot said in the post game not to expect Kretzer back Thursday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 I still believe in miracles after Reggie's quick recovery from mono. He only played 15 minutes tonight, but his accurate shooting (2-3 treys and 2-2 free throws for 8 points) was critical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Whatever time the Zips spend practicing free throws is a colossal waste of time. No way they could be worse by not practicing. No way. Use that time practicing scoring in paint with contact. Good thing Ken+ is turible. Our first pick tonight was set with twelve minutes left in the SECOND half...by a freshman!?!Props to Tree for stepping it up and getting physical when the team needed him most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 I don't think we're a lock for anything, but I have a feeling other MAC teams watching tonight were really hoping we'd be on the other side of the bracket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 That was another painful game to watch, but with a happy ending. I said the same thing to someone an hour ago. The only thing exciting about an awful game like that is when it ends well for your team.If we don't get Ken+'s big men in foul trouble early, we lose big. Too many easy baskets, too many 2nd chance points. Thank God they were 3 of 19 from 3-point range. What really made the difference was when we decided to battle for those rebounds. It was still an awful deficit in rebounds for the game, but they were letting Ken+ play very physical on the loose balls, and we had to join that battle in the 2nd half if we wanted a chance.I could be wrong, but I don't understand the Diggs technical. It looked to us like he was grabbed and pulled towards the Ken+ bench, and was just trying to get away. Of course, I don't know what was said.Game MVP - DejiBig Dog looks like the only guy really capable of providing consistent help for Tree on the boards right now. Does everyone realize that we won a game in which Tree was 1 for 9 from the field at one point? We were only still close enough to get the job done because Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmeister Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 I said the same thing to someone an hour ago. The only thing exciting about an awful game like that is when it ends well for your team. If we don't get Ken+'s big men in foul trouble early, we lose big. Too many easy baskets, too many 2nd chance points. Thank God they were 3 of 19 from 3-point range. What really made the difference was when we decided to battle for those rebounds. It was still an awful deficit in rebounds for the game, but they were letting Ken+ play very physical on the loose balls, and we had to join that battle in the 2nd half if we wanted a chance. I could be wrong, but I don't understand the Diggs technical. It looked to us like he was grabbed and pulled towards the Ken+ bench, and was just trying to get away. Of course, I don't know what was said. Game MVP - Deji Big Dog looks like the only guy really capable of providing consistent help for Tree on the boards right now. Does everyone realize that we won a game in which Tree was 1 for 9 from the field at one point? We were only still close enough to get the job done because There was absolutely no reason for the technical on Q. My understanding is that Q mistakenly thought the opposing player was a trained seal and he was merely helping him start his balancing the ball on his head routine to entertain the crowd during the timeout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 After watching the game at home later, Q definitely deserved the T. He tried to hand the ball to the Can't player. The only problem is he mistook the guys head for his hands. Not Q's best performance last night. In the post game interview after the UB game KD said he never knows which Q is going to show up each game. The one that showed up last night is giving him gray hairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 A poorly played game by both teams, but I'll take a win over Can't any day of the week regardless of the play. Rivalry games aren't supposed to be easy.Until late in the second half, the Zips just couldn't get a lead. They came close and were tied a couple of times, but just couldn't get over the hump. I told the luckiest woman in the world, Mrs. GP1, that if the Zips could just get the lead the tide would turn in their favor. Around 7-8 minutes remaining in the game, the Zips took the lead and the momentum shift was obvious. I really thought that was the most critical moment in the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Nothing is going to make Zips fans feel any better about the team's miserable free throw shooting percentage that currently ranks them #345 out of 351 D1 teams. But just out of curiosity I wanted to see if there are any respectable teams also living on the free throw poor side of town. Starting with the next worse MAC team (Bowling Green at #337) and going down to the bottom, the only quality team I see is North Carolina just below the Zips at #347. I haven't checked any NC fan forums, but suspect they're as concerned as Zips fans that free throw shooting will eventually catch up with their team in a close game come tournament time.337. 63.7 Bowling Green339. 63.5 Northeastern339. 63.5 Navy339. 63.5 Texas A&M342. 63.4 UC Irvine343. 63.0 Louisiana-Monroe344. 62.7 Southern University345. 62.5 Akron346. 62.4 Marshall347. 62.1 North Carolina348. 61.5 UCF349. 60.6 Morgan State350. 60.5 Old Dominion351. 60.0 Central Arkansas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 There was absolutely no reason for the technical on Q. My understanding is that Q mistakenly thought the opposing player was a trained seal and he was merely helping him start his balancing the ball on his head routine to entertain the crowd during the timeout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 BTW, the game looked really good on TV last night. Packed stadium with a lot of people who looked like they were having a lot of fun, with the exception of ZipsWin! who looked pretty arms crossed nervous with under five minutes to go in the game. This is exactly the way we should all want the University presented on television. Please keep this in mind next year when the Zips are playing football on a Tuesday night in an almost completely empty Big Dialer. Television makes everything you see important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 After watching the game at home later, Q definitely deserved the T. Thanks for saving me time, that was the one thing I wanted to go back and check. The result only cost us one point, so it really didn't hurt us as much as the multiple breakdowns in defense under the hoop that resulted in easy dunks for Ken+. I liked Ken+'s defensive strategy against Akron, it is exactly how I would defend the Zips in the past decade. GP1 is right, the fans were great last night. My photography is showing the same about that one guy you mention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted March 8, 2014 Report Share Posted March 8, 2014 Tree played soft for the first 30 minutes. Consistently settled for jump shots and fade-aways instead of taking it strong to the hole. Big Dog played like a 12 year old basset hound. As skinny and undersized as K.e.n.t.'s interior was, they did whatever they pleased for the first 30-or-so minutes. It sucks when the K.e.n.t. offensive haiku is: dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk, dunkLayup, layup, layup, dunklayup, dunk, dunk, dunk On the positive side - Props to Deji for stepping up and putting the team on his back. He was the difference-maker in an otherwise low-level UA-K.e.n.t. game (by the standards set over the past decade). McAdams made the most of his minutes as did Evans. Aside from the late missed FT's, Tree manned-up the final 10 minutes and pushed us over the top. Take the ball to the glass and you either score or get fouled. Fade away and you miss more than you make. And you don't get fouled. And, Diggs should never be our primary ball-handler in a half court set w/ < 1 minute remaining. The ball is more-likely to go off his hip or into the 3rd row than it is to go into the hoop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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