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 2 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 2 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 1 hour 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