Zippy87 Posted November 13, 2024 Report Posted November 13, 2024 Figured I'd share for anyone else curious. Mikal Dawson is averaging 6 PPG in 23 MPG but his shooting numbers are ugly - 5-26 from the field overall and 4-19 from 3. Good kid, hope he can turn it around. Ryan Prather Jr. is playing well early for Robert Morris, starting and leading the team in scoring. He's averaging 13 PPG and shooting a red-hot 67% from deep range. Darrion Baker is averaging 7/2 in 15 MPG for SIU Edwardsville. 3 2 Quote
clarkwgriswold Posted November 13, 2024 Report Posted November 13, 2024 15 hours ago, Zippy87 said: Figured I'd share for anyone else curious. Mikal Dawson is averaging 6 PPG in 23 MPG but his shooting numbers are ugly - 5-26 from the field overall and 4-19 from 3. Good kid, hope he can turn it around. Nice to see Mike pick up with Marshall where he left off with the Zips! 1 Quote
LZIp Posted November 14, 2024 Report Posted November 14, 2024 6 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said: Nice to see Mike pick up with Marshall where he left off with the Zips! Savage! Quote
Zippy87 Posted November 14, 2024 Author Report Posted November 14, 2024 20 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said: Nice to see Mike pick up with Marshall where he left off with the Zips! Yeah, he's not looking good. I hate seeing it - he seems like a great young man and I think part of transferring was trying to get a fresh start and finish his career strong. Quote
kreed5120 Posted November 14, 2024 Report Posted November 14, 2024 He clearly hasn't been the same after the injury. I'm not sure if it's physical, mental, or a combination of both. 1 Quote
clarkwgriswold Posted November 14, 2024 Report Posted November 14, 2024 11 minutes ago, Zippy87 said: Yeah, he's not looking good. I hate seeing it - he seems like a great young man and I think part of transferring was trying to get a fresh start and finish his career strong. Exactly. Seems like a great kid. I do wish him well. 1 Quote
Let'sGoZips94 Posted November 14, 2024 Report Posted November 14, 2024 3 hours ago, kreed5120 said: He clearly hasn't been the same after the injury. I'm not sure if it's physical, mental, or a combination of both. It's more mental than anything. He was a junk yard dawg before the injury. Very timid/passive since. Quote
Reslife4Life Posted November 26, 2024 Report Posted November 26, 2024 Watching the end of UD vs UNC where UD needs a missed free throw and tip in, reminds me no one is a better offensive rebounder on missed free throws than Mikal Dawson. Truly a master that I have never seen in any other player at any level Quote
Blue & Gold Posted November 26, 2024 Report Posted November 26, 2024 Darrion Baker is doing okay at SIUE. He hasn't started any games but is averaging 17 minutes/game 7.2 points/game (on .571 shooting - pretty good... but 0-5 on 3's) 5 rebounds/game I still think he's going to be a good one & so I'm still perplexed at his transfer. Has anyone heard any word on what may have prompted his transfer? Amani's development in practice over last season? 1 Quote
Zippy87 Posted November 26, 2024 Author Report Posted November 26, 2024 3 hours ago, Blue & Gold said: Darrion Baker is doing okay at SIUE. He hasn't started any games but is averaging 17 minutes/game 7.2 points/game (on .571 shooting - pretty good... but 0-5 on 3's) 5 rebounds/game I still think he's going to be a good one & so I'm still perplexed at his transfer. Has anyone heard any word on what may have prompted his transfer? Amani's development in practice over last season? I was pretty surprised he transferred. Even if Amani looked better over time, it's not like we couldn't use another big on this year's roster. It made me wonder if the coaches didn't feel Baker was as good as they originally thought. Quote
Let'sGoZips94 Posted November 26, 2024 Report Posted November 26, 2024 4 hours ago, Zippy87 said: I was pretty surprised he transferred. Even if Amani looked better over time, it's not like we couldn't use another big on this year's roster. It made me wonder if the coaches didn't feel Baker was as good as they originally thought. I wonder if their "all gas no brakes" vision for this year's squad didn't include Baker like they originally thought. Could be more of a system fit issue vs skill potential. 2 Quote
Z.I.P. Posted February 21 Report Posted February 21 (edited) I just saw a Zips social media post showing Sammy Hunter and Xavier Castañeda as part of regional international FIBA qualifying tournaments and while Sammy playing for Bahamas was no surprise, it WAS unexpected to find Xavier in qualifying with the national team of Bosnia and Hertzegovina! Not Puerto Rico. How did THAT happen? Edited February 21 by Z.I.P. 2 Quote
kreed5120 Posted February 21 Report Posted February 21 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Z.I.P. said: I just saw a Zips social media post showing Sammy Hunter and Xavier Castañeda as part of regional international FIBA qualifying tournaments and while Sammy playing for Bahamas was no surprise, it WAS unexpected to find Xavier in qualifying with the national team of Bosnia and Hertzegovina! Not Puerto Rico. How did THAT happen? Perhaps has a parent or grandparent from there. Another option is they gave him a passport (or whatever) to play for them. That's pretty common with many countries who want to grow soccer or basketball in their home country, but lack the home talent to qualify for a world cup or Olympics. I know the Phillipines actively has granted citizenship to get players. Turkey gave citizenship to Cedi Osman as well. There are countless other examples, but I don't care to take a deep dive into it. Edited February 21 by kreed5120 Quote
Zippy87 Posted February 22 Author Report Posted February 22 Dawson is having a nice bounceback year for Marshall. He's shooting 34.8% from deep, closer to the guy he was in 21-22. And he's shooting a TON of threes. He has 210 attempts in 28 games this season...he shot 170 in 35 games for us last year. Baker hasn't played for SIU since December 8th - appears he suffered an injury of some kind. Prather Jr. cooled down considerably after his hot start but is contributing as a rotation player. Bandaogo has been a solid starter for a pretty average Cincinnati team. 4 Quote
Reslife4Life Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 Mikal Dawson with 9 points for Marshall as they move on to the SBC quarters against Arkansas state tomorrow 2 Quote
1981 grad Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 And Prather is having a good year at Robert Morris averaging 8 points a game and Robert Morris won the Horizon league regular season. He scored 13 points in the quarter finals of their tourney. 1 Quote
Captain Kangaroo Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 21 minutes ago, 1981 grad said: And Prather is having a good year at Robert Morris averaging 8 points a game and Robert Morris won the Horizon league regular season. He scored 13 points in the quarter finals of their tourney. If he’d stayed with the Zips he’d have probably seen fewer minutes than Marvin. Robert Morris seems like a perfect fit for him. 2 Quote
Reslife4Life Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 Not a former zip but remember Great Osobor from Utah state? I was wondering where he was playing this year and apparently he transferred to Washington and his stats are slightly worse than last year at USU. Utah state is still playing near the top of the MW and Washington is dead last in the big 10. Dude got a decent amount of notoriety in March last year, now he wont sniff the tourney this year. Just an interesting observation Quote
LZIp Posted March 8 Report Posted March 8 28 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said: Not a former zip but remember Great Osobor from Utah state? I was wondering where he was playing this year and apparently he transferred to Washington and his stats are slightly worse than last year at USU. Utah state is still playing near the top of the MW and Washington is dead last in the big 10. Dude got a decent amount of notoriety in March last year, now he wont sniff the tourney this year. Just an interesting observation He got paid a lot to go to Washington though. Quote
GJGood Posted March 9 Report Posted March 9 Accidentally stumbled upon this.. apparently no longer in basketball? Quote
Let'sGoZips94 Posted March 9 Report Posted March 9 19 hours ago, Reslife4Life said: Not a former zip but remember Great Osobor from Utah state? I was wondering where he was playing this year and apparently he transferred to Washington and his stats are slightly worse than last year at USU. Utah state is still playing near the top of the MW and Washington is dead last in the big 10. Dude got a decent amount of notoriety in March last year, now he wont sniff the tourney this year. Just an interesting observation 19 hours ago, LZIp said: He got paid a lot to go to Washington though. Pretty sure the Utah State coach from last year took the Washington job and brought Osobor with him (for the 2nd time). It wasn't necessarily a money chase, although he did get paid well. Quote
ZippyRulz Posted March 9 Report Posted March 9 I've been thinking recently about the big kid (name escapes me) who wanted to become an air traffic controller. Wonder how he's doing? Quote
zippy5 Posted March 9 Report Posted March 9 (edited) Steve Swiech is an air traffic controller per his Facebook Edited March 9 by zippy5 1 Quote
Zippy87 Posted March 12 Author Report Posted March 12 Ryan Prather Jr. is headed to the NCAA Tournament with Robert Morris 1 Quote
MDZip Posted March 12 Report Posted March 12 38 minutes ago, Zippy87 said: Ryan Prather Jr. is headed to the NCAA Tournament with Robert Morris The two of them have no prayer against a team of five. 3 Quote
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