2024-25 Post Mortem and Looking Ahead to 2025-26

[NWAkron]

Home and Home with Shaker Heights?

[Hilltopper]

2 hours ago, NWAkron said:

Is he a guard who can score?

 

Need a big

Patience grasshopper, patience

[clarkwgriswold]

I wish there was a deadline for transfer portal players to choose their landing spot.

[NWAkron]

12 hours ago, Hilltopper said:

Patience grasshopper, patience

I will show up in November and see what Groce has scrounged together

[kreed5120]

39 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

I wish there was a deadline for transfer portal players to choose their landing spot.

 

Technical there is. It would have to be before the enrollment deadline ends so sometime in August.

 

It was around this time and into early May that we filled out our roster last year with the portal. I would think within the next 2 weeks we'll have it set.

[kreed5120]

Chabi Barre is the final commit.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DI4ECT0unBO/?igsh=ZDVmbnRuNWJ2a2dz

[Illini Zip]

7 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

Chabi Barre is the final commit.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DI4ECT0unBO/?igsh=ZDVmbnRuNWJ2a2dz

He’s huge. He has to be 80 stories tall.

 

Go Zips!!

[Let'sGoZips94]

7'4" wingspan and athletic. What a get. 

 

[akzipper]

10 minutes ago, Illini Zip said:

He’s huge. He has to be 80 stories tall.

 

Go Zips!!

 

What is that, a city for ants?

[clarkwgriswold]

Wow, I just mentioned him as a guess when someone mentioned Duquesne and now he's here. 

 

Think of a more athletic Deng Riak.

[Let'sGoZips94]

6 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

Wow, I just mentioned him as a guess when someone mentioned Duquesne and now he's here. 

 

Think of a more athletic Deng Riak.

 

Do you have a guess on the next lottery numbers?

[Illini Zip]

59 minutes ago, akzipper said:

 

What is that, a city for ants?

Maybe that’s a new pitch, “Come to Akron. The city of ants.”

[Zippy87]

Barre is a great get - athletic big who will help tremendously on defense and can finish around the rim. High character player, too. Have to believe KD helped facilitate this one. 

 

No idea how it'll shake out, but maybe we look something like this? 

 

Lyles/MMK

Evan/Eric/Halligan/Groce

Barre/Brisco

Scott/Head/Hardman/Henderson

Johnson/Young/Perkins

Edited 1 hour ago by Zippy87

[kreed5120]

3 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

Barre is a great get - athletic big who will help tremendously on defense and can finish around the rim. High character player, too. Have to believe KD helped facilitate this one. 

 

No idea how it'll shake out, but maybe we look something like this? 

 

Lyles/MMK

Evan/Eric/Halligan/Groce

Barre/Brisco

Scott/Head/Hardman/Henderson

Johnson/Young/Perkins

 

You realize there is only 40 minutes per position played, right? No way Tavari/Young play only 20 min each just so Brisco and Barre can combine for 40 minutes.

 

We started 4 guards last season. I expect to see us utilize 3 this year.

 

C - Amani/Barre/Brisco

PF - Evan/Eric/MMK

 

I'm not even going to try to dig into PG, SG, and SF. Those positions will be fairly interchangeable. We will likely see Eric, who I listed in the PF rotation, also play some minutes as SF.

 

 

[kreed5120]

I've said before lineups to close out games is more important than who starts. This is the lineup I'd expect most often in close out situations.

 

PG - Tavari

SG - Young

SF - Scott

PF - Evan

C - Amani

 

You might see Barre and Amani do some offense for defense substitution. Since Barre is a sub 50% career free throw shooter, you can't afford to keep him on the court if you're trying to protect a lead late.