Game 3- Tulane

[clarkwgriswold]

The Green Wave come to the JAR Saturday to face the Zips.  They are 1-1 going into a Tuesday night game with Nichols State, with a 2 point win over UT-Martin and a 2 point loss to Jackson State.  

 

Tulane was picked 10th out of 13 teams in the American Athletic Conference preseason poll and the roster has ten newcomers in 7 transfers and 3 true freshmen.

[exit322]

Chris Webber picks the Green Wave in this one

[MDZip]

47 minutes ago, exit322 said:

Chris Webber picks the Green Wave in this one

I think even he might realize he needs to call a time-out on that pick  - oh wait maybe he doesn't have any. 

[Reslife4Life]

Always nice to have a November Saturday game at noon with a competitive team. Of course I’m talking about basketball

[clarkwgriswold]

Tulane went to 2-1 last night with a win over 77-63 win over Nicholls.

 

Kristian Lewis leads Tulane thus far at an whopping 28.3 ppg.  He is a 6'2" junior guard transfer from Louisiana-Monroe.   

[kreed5120]

13 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

Tulane went to 2-1 last night with a win over 77-63 win over Nicholls.

 

Kristian Lewis leads Tulane thus far at an whopping 28.3 ppg.  He is a 6'2" junior guard transfer from Louisiana-Monroe.   

 

He seems to play very heavy minutes. Below are his minute totals each game. The first one went to 2OT. I was surprised to see he played all but 1 minute in a game Tulane won by double figures. KJ Greene is another that appears to have a very heavy workload average 36.3 minutes per game. One would think Akron's high paced play and deep rotation could create trouble for Tulane.

43/50 2OT

34

39

[clarkwgriswold]

1 minute ago, kreed5120 said:

 

He seems to play very heavy minutes. Below are his minute totals each game. The first one went to 2OT. I was surprised to see he played all but 1 minute in a game Tulane won by double figures. KJ Greene is another that appears to have a very heavy workload average 36.3 minutes per game. One would think Akron's high paced play and deep rotation could create trouble for Tulane.

43/50 2OT

34

39

 

28 point average with a 10 point game if I recall correctly.

[kreed5120]

2 hours ago, clarkwgriswold said:

 

28 point average with a 10 point game if I recall correctly.

 

I've watched large chunks of 2 Tulane games this year. He likes to attack the basket and is great at drawing contact. He's 37/39 94.9% at the line on the season. He made 17 foul shots in both his 40 point and 35 point game. The game he scored 10 only attempted 4 FTs. In total 43.5% of his points were scored at the charity stripe this season.

 

Defending him without fouling will be key. He's still a good player and can beat you other ways, but keeping him off the FT line will be key. That's the difference between him having a 15 point game that you can live with vs a 30+ point game that helps propel an upset.

[Zippy87]

I'm curious when Max Burton will be available to play. And if Cody Head will ever play. 

[Reslife4Life]

4 hours ago, Zippy87 said:

I'm curious when Max Burton will be available to play. And if Cody Head will ever play. 

I’d love to see how he compares to Chabi at the 5. I really hope one of them can be a serviceable starting big

[Illini Zip]

I want to see if he shoots well from deep.

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Illini Zip

[csims0917]

Seems like a good guy based on his couple promotional videos. He’s also on the schedule posters so they must have high hopes 

Edited 17 hours ago by csims0917

[Reslife4Life]

35 minutes ago, csims0917 said:

Seems like a good guy based on his couple promotional videos. He’s also on the schedule posters so they must have high hopes 

Speaking of that I found it interesting that the big poster on the side of the jar featured no players this year

[Zippy87]

23 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Speaking of that I found it interesting that the big poster on the side of the jar featured no players this year

 

Just a guess, but in the age of NIL it's probably a wiser idea. 

[Blue & Gold]

24 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Speaking of that I found it interesting that the big poster on the side of the jar featured no players this year

What was it?

[csims0917]

27 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Speaking of that I found it interesting that the big poster on the side of the jar featured no players this year

I bet they’ll update it again. I remember 24-25 was outdated for a long time before being updated before MAC play 

Edited 16 hours ago by csims0917

[Reslife4Life]

6 minutes ago, Blue & Gold said:

What was it?

It’s just the fear the roo logo with “Akron basketball” or something similar on it

[Zippy87]

Some way-too-early observations look at our statistics page:

 

- There's a pretty clear "big 3" in Mahaffey, Staveskie, and Pence in terms of minutes.

- I'm hopeful we see more from Oriol as the season goes on. I expected him to be a major contributor, and he has been more of a role player so far. He has only shot the ball 6 times (Tahj has 31 FGA, for comparison). Only Chabi and Marvin have shot less of the primary rotation guys. Hopefully that's a focus moving forward. Good teams will key on Tahj.

- Speaking of Tahj, 27 3-point attempts in 2 games! But he's made 41%!

 

 

[Zips1991]

17 minutes ago, Zippy87 said:

Some way-too-early observations look at our statistics page:

 

- There's a pretty clear "big 3" in Mahaffey, Staveskie, and Pence in terms of minutes.

- I'm hopeful we see more from Oriol as the season goes on. I expected him to be a major contributor, and he has been more of a role player so far. He has only shot the ball 6 times (Tahj has 31 FGA, for comparison). Only Chabi and Marvin have shot less of the primary rotation guys. Hopefully that's a focus moving forward. Good teams will key on Tahj.

- Speaking of Tahj, 27 3-point attempts in 2 games! But he's made 41%!

 

 

Oriol's minutes did go up from 16 to 18 between the first and second games but it's hard to compare them considering the 2nd one was against a D3 team. I think we'll know more about if his minutes are increasing after the Tulane game. I also expected him to be a bigger contributor.

I really want to see Tahj shoot less or at least not settle for so many deep and contested threes. He can obviously shoot very well but I'd like to see it be more in the flow of the offense.