Games 5, 6 & 7- The Paradise Jam

[Reslife4Life]

Gym looks a little better than the Cayman Islands, still not great. It’s gotta be funny to be some of the best players at their level and go play some of the most competitive games of the year in a gym like this

[kreed5120]

8 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Gym looks a little better than the Cayman Islands, still not great. It’s gotta be funny to be some of the best players at their level and go play some of the most competitive games of the year in a gym like this

 

Last week we saw power conference programs play in a ballroom in West Virginia. This arena has to be an upgrade over that.

[csims0917]

Yale is struggling to put away Green Bay 

[infofan]

One might imagine 8 hours in a plane and the Virgin Island resorts are a distraction for some of these youngsters.  

[kreed5120]

Considering UMass-Charleston game is still going, I'm going to guess the Akron game will start a bit late.

[Let'sGoZips94]

2 hours ago, csims0917 said:

Yale is struggling to put away Green Bay 

 

Yale's resume isn't impressive thus far. Their hype is still a carry over from last season, although they will still end up being the class of the Ivy League most likely. 

[zipsrule]

12 minutes ago, kreed5120 said:

Considering UMass-Charleston game is still going, I'm going to guess the Akron game will start a bit late.

The game just ended.  I'm guessing it will be 30 minutes, which puts us a few minutes before 6:00pm.

[RoyalBlu]

Any scouting report on UMass ...

[kreed5120]

13 minutes ago, RoyalBlu said:

Any scouting report on UMass ...

I only got to see the closing minutes so nothing to report.

[zipsrule]

Game starting now....

[Illini Zip]

A bit chaotic and undisciplined on offense, but again we are leading at the first media time out. How many times were we already down ten points a couple of years ago?

[MDZip]

We look pretty good when we are not playing giants. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

Love that dribble drive layup by Big Stank. 

[MDZip]

1 minute ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Love that dribble drive layup by Big Stank. 

Can we give him a better nickname? Oggi Doggi? 🤣

[clarkwgriswold]

Nice start.   Let's keep the pedal down.

 

These announcers clearly are not at the venue and have limited knowledge of the teams.

[Let'sGoZips94]

What a stretch by Eric Mahaffey there. 

 

Young is much better this game. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

Halligan is in. 

[Illini Zip]

Don’t know the stats, but I imagine we need to improve our free throw shooting. Otherwise, we have found our flow. 

[LZIp]

Early in the season, but this team feels like it has the chance to be Groce’s best team yet.. 

[kreed5120]

That put back slam from Evan...

[zippy5]

We might be pretty good 

[clarkwgriswold]

Awful end to the half.

[Illini Zip]

Terrible close to the half. 11-0 run by the Gaels. Ugh!!

[clarkwgriswold]

Well, the announcers are there.

[Illini Zip]

Doesn’t our radio guys usually travel to these holiday tournaments?