Game 3- Penn State- Shenago

[Captain Kangaroo]

I think I made the right choice attending the Midget Mania Wrestling event at the Barley House tonight. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

Did we learn anything about Brisco or Barre?

[Illini Zip]

6 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Did we learn anything about Brisco or Barre?

One has to think that with the limited playing time through 3 games these 2 big guys will have little impact on the Purdue game. Or is that what Groce wants Matt Painter to think.
Hmmm. 🧐🥸🤫

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Illini Zip

[Blue & Gold]

There were no takeaways from the game last night. PSU-S was terribly undersized. They had 3 nice, smallish, guards but that's it. Their best player, #0, was only 5'8" but could shoot the lights out. He was a chucker for sure.

Edited 15 hours ago by Blue & Gold

[clarkwgriswold]

7 hours ago, Captain Kangaroo said:

I think I made the right choice attending the Midget Mania Wrestling event at the Barley House tonight. 

 

9 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:

There were no takeaways from the game last night. PSU-S was terribly undersized. They had 3 nice, smallish, guards but that's it. Their best player, #0, was only 5'8" but could shoot the lights out. He was a chucker for sure.

 

So the two events were not that dissimilar.

[clarkwgriswold]

7 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Did we learn anything about Brisco or Barre?

As Blue & Gold stated, there wasn't a whole lot that could be taken away because of the size and talent disparity, but they both looked okay. Brisco is definitely a big body but I wonder if he can get up and down the court in the way that this offense demands of its big men.  Barre appears to have the ability to get up and down, and I understand that is why he was brought in, however, the results have yet to be seen.

[Reslife4Life]

9 hours ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Did we learn anything about Brisco or Barre?

I will say that neither of them had particularly great hands last night. But yes as previously stated when Barre was in the game he might've been 6 inches taller than anyone on the other team, he made 3 or 4 standing layups with very little effort

[Let'sGoZips94]

Since we didn't learn anything new, at least nobody got hurt. Onto actual Purdue (not Purdue Polytechnic).

[Illini Zip]

1 hour ago, Reslife4Life said:

I will say that neither of them had particularly great hands last night. But yes as previously stated when Barre was in the game he might've been 6 inches taller than anyone on the other team, he made 3 or 4 standing layups with very little effort

That was one of things I loved about Freeman early on. Of course, Freeman’s list of accomplishments went through the roof and it was easy to take that quality for granted. Hopefully our guys just need to get some reps and work out any jitters. 

[Illini Zip]

13 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said:

As Blue & Gold stated, there wasn't a whole lot that could be taken away because of the size and talent disparity, but they both looked okay. Brisco is definitely a big body but I wonder if he can get up and down the court in the way that this offense demands of its big men.  Barre appears to have the ability to get up and down, and I understand that is why he was brought in, however, the results have yet to be seen.

Good post. I just want to launch a conversation off of it. 
 

We have had a few centers at Akron during Groce’s era similar to Barre. Tall, mobile, shot blocker type; Riak, Aziz and briefly Gueye.
 

The other type of center we are accustomed to obviously is the Freeman type. Very versatile, athletic and skilled with more of a power forward frame. You can add Sayles, Lyles and now Marvin to that list. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Oggie play the 5 spot in time as well. 

 

But the last center type we are not too familiar with at Akron is what I call the “earth mover” center. I witnessed it with Illinois. They are big, strong and weigh about 250lb. They typically range between 6-8 and 6-10, but have a low center of gravity. They are immovable objects. The only guy that has fit this description was Kostelac. They are less versatile and athletic, but can be highly skilled and effective in Groce’s system. They don’t run the break as fast as the others, but they do run the court. Brisco is an earth mover. We have had other MAC teams use earth mover centers against us recently. I don’t remember their names, but the Zips recruited one of them. Any way it will be nice to have a big body to throw out there during those match-ups especially.
 

Personally, I would like to see Brisco cut his teeth with some time against the 6-11 big for Purdue. And I would let Barre get some time against their 7-4 center. The rest of the time I would play small with Lyles and let their bigs chase us up and down the court. 
 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Illini Zip