Game 23- Eastern Michigan

[clarkwgriswold]

Lucky.

[Reslife4Life]

LETS GO

[MDZip]

Whew. The haves and the Habhab nots. 

[Let'sGoZips94]

[zippy5]

as Lanny Frattare used to say, there was noooooo doubt about it

[Let'sGoZips94]

Groce is pi$$ed.

[AkronAlumnus]

Can't win em all pretty! Go Zips!!

[LZIp]

Pretty sloppy, but I’d rather win sloppy than lose sloppy.

[MDZip]

4 minutes ago, Let'sGoZips94 said:

Groce is pi$$ed.

No deodorant to make that one smell better. 

[Illini Zip]

What’s the over/under Groce uses the word “putrid” in the post-game?

 

Edit: Nope.

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Illini Zip

[1981 grad]

Give Hardman credit for a game winner.  I cannot remember an Akron game winning shot in the last 10 seconds this year.  I really thought it was going to be a Tavari drive or pull up jumper for the last shot.  Give Groce credit for the game winning play.

[MDZip]

Our three typical leading scorers had 17, 4 and 3. 

[clarkwgriswold]

Habnab appears to employ Michael Phelps' cupper.

[zippy5]

21 minutes ago, 1981 grad said:

Give Hardman credit for a game winner.  I cannot remember an Akron game winning shot in the last 10 seconds this year.  I really thought it was going to be a Tavari drive or pull up jumper for the last shot.  Give Groce credit for the game winning play.

We're usually up 20 by then 

[csims0917]

Groce said on Saturday this game will be a let down game. So I won’t lose sleep over it. I’ll take a let down win

[Illini Zip]

12 minutes ago, csims0917 said:

Groce said on Saturday this game will be a let down game. So I won’t lose sleep over it. I’ll take a let down win

It was actually a let down road kill, which is even easier to accept. 

[1981 grad]

4 hours ago, UAZipster0305 said:

Zips will get out of the gate hot tonight, and the game will not be close five minutes from the start to finish. The good guys win by 20+.

I hope you did not bet on this one.  

[72 Roo]

This game magnifies fundamental weaknesses in the Zips this season. I do not believe they can get any W's after the MAC tourney. Here's why:

1) Turnovers

2) Turnovers

3) Rebounding

4) Refusal to play physical (Take a God damn charge once in a while rather than say ole)

5) Inconsistent focus (No team is good enough to turn it on when needed and win against good     competition. Hell EMU was bad and they took us to the buzzer)

[Westie]

4 hours ago, 72 Roo said:

This game magnifies fundamental weaknesses in the Zips this season. I do not believe they can get any W's after the MAC tourney. Here's why:

1) Turnovers

2) Turnovers

3) Rebounding

4) Refusal to play physical (Take a God damn charge once in a while rather than say ole)

5) Inconsistent focus (No team is good enough to turn it on when needed and win against good     competition. Hell EMU was bad and they took us to the buzzer)

until the last two games, Akron won the rebounding battle in just about every game. Not making excuses for the last two but Kent missed 22 3-point shots. Lotta long rebounds.
 

Last night was a zombie performance but they still managed to win. 
 

Groce will get into these guys and clean it up. 
 

 

[Illini Zip]

Ugly, ugly, out of body experience. Even with the terrible effort, execution and decision making you could still see them dig deep to muster one last run starting about 7-9 minutes out. It’s all they had in them. Kent State almost got their win a game late. And this was a true road game. We were getting hacked and bumped plenty which also makes running your offense more difficult. They survived thank goodness and hopefully they find their legs, minds and shot before Troy on Saturday. 

[kreed5120]

5 hours ago, 72 Roo said:

 

4) Refusal to play physical (Take a God damn charge once in a while rather than say ole)

 

I don't have any analytics to back it up, but I watch a fair amount of college basketball outside of just Akron games. It seems in those charge/block scenarios blocking is always called now. It seemed before at least once or twice a game a charge would be called. I'm not sure if its being officiated any differently or if defenders have lost the art form. 

[HoopsFan03]

1 hour ago, kreed5120 said:

 

I don't have any analytics to back it up, but I watch a fair amount of college basketball outside of just Akron games. It seems in those charge/block scenarios blocking is always called now. It seemed before at least once or twice a game a charge would be called. I'm not sure if its being officiated any differently or if defenders have lost the art form. 

Lyles took 2 charges against portage community college. Ref called them defensive fouls. 

[Reslife4Life]

There was also a very clear forearm shove by emu in the second half, right near the ref and no call

[kreed5120]

7 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Lyles took 2 charges against portage community college. Ref called them defensive fouls. 

 

I was at that game so I didn't get to see a close up or replay. I have noticed quite a few times when watching games this season that what appeared to me to be a charge got called a block. I'm not just referring to Akron games either.