Game 24- James Madison

[tolbob]

JM 6/18  3s

Zips 5/24 UGH

[clarkwgriswold]

Dawson + Hunter = 3 points on 1 for 9 shooting

[Spin]

That slow start is killing us

[tomzip]

Can anyone on the bench knock down 3s? Maybe get Groce's kid early from high school to play the wing

[clarkwgriswold]

3 minutes ago, tomzip said:

Can anyone on the bench knock down 3s? Maybe get Groce's kid early from high school to play the wing

The two guys expected to do that are 1 of 9.

[clarkwgriswold]

The color guy thinks Enrique is one of the best players in the conference.  Ya think?

[zipsrule]

Cannot hit an outside shot.

[Reslife4Life]

5-25 from deep. No one has made multiple threes

[tomzip]

Quad 1 means nothing to a MAC school, this conference will never see 2 bids. Would have been a nice W today. Learning experience for Cleveland 

[clarkwgriswold]

10 turnovers/5 assists.

[kreed5120]

JMU is the better team. Offensively they're moving the ball around better to get easy looks. Akron is settling for more difficult looks.

[1981 grad]

We have 5 starters and only 3 that are scoring.  We need more from Hunter and Dawson who are missing in action again.  I just wish somebody would step up from the bench to get more minutes but none of the subs have done anything.  I only remember Tavari hitting a 3. 

[Reslife4Life]

The brick after stealing the inbound is all you need to see about this game

[LZIp]

There's no doubt about it. Hunter and Dawson get the best looks on the team from 3. Have to hit them at a respectable clip.

[Zip JD]

1 hour ago, clarkwgriswold said:

Thornton led the MAC in assists and is always near the top in assist to turnover ratio.  His ball handing is fine.  He's just not a great penetrator or very explosive, talents possessed by Tavari.   It's all about timing and matchups with those two.

Thornton is MUCH better defensively.   Although TJ has worked a lot harder on his D lately.  

[kreed5120]

This team is just good, not great. Beats the bad teams. Loses to the good ones. We have 1 month to figure out how to be great.

[akzipper]

This might be an unpopular take, but I think we're just an average team in a bad conference.

[Zip JD]

6 minutes ago, LZIp said:

There's no doubt about it. Hunter and Dawson get the best looks on the team from 3. Have to hit them at a respectable clip.

Thornton and Smart get open looks too and NEVER get hot. 

[Reslife4Life]

3 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

This team is just good, not great. Beats the bad teams. Loses to the good ones. We have 1 month to figure out how to be great.

I don't know about that, given those parameters, when was the last great akron team

[LZIp]

2 minutes ago, Zip JD said:

Thornton and Smart get open looks too and NEVER get hot. 

Yep, them 2 as well. Just have higher expectations for the two I mentioned.

[1981 grad]

Dawson has just been disappointing offensively after starting off so well.  His outside shot has not been there and that seems to be his entire game offensively.  We need somebody to help Ali, Freeman and Tribble against good teams and the rest of the team has come up empty.

[Zip JD]

3 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

This team is just good, not great. Beats the bad teams. Loses to the good ones. We have 1 month to figure out how to be great.

Agreed.  Without Nate I thought Dawson would step up.  We need one of the guards not named Tribble to contribute offensively. 

[clarkwgriswold]

Congrats to JMU.  They are really solid.  They play hard and smart and are well coached.

[Reslife4Life]

can't even make the garbage time threes. Not our night

[GP1]

Disappointing loss in the way they lost. I thought they had more in them. Need to physically toughen up if they want to win an NCAA game.