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 yesterday at 12:48 AM 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 yesterday at 12:31 AM 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 yesterday at 01:34 AM 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.

[Zippy87]

24 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

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.

 

Agree on Tahj. I like that he can do it. His ability to get a bucket anytime will pay off this season. But to get to where we want to be, we can't rely so much on volume from one guy IMO. 

[kreed5120]

Even last year we saw the rotation start large and then players like Stankovic get completely removed from the rotation.

 

Ford is still learning which rotations work best. I'm sure as the season progresses some players will earn an increase in minutes while others will have theirs trimmed. I said before the season Tahj and Pence would be the two biggest pieces to the team. That was before Evan rejoined the team. Those three will settle into their 28-32 mpg. Everyone else is fighting for what's left.

[clarkwgriswold]

If I had to guess, Tahj, Evan, Pence, White and Hammer will all get decent minutes, followed by Oriol and Perkins.  When Burton returns he and Chabi will split minutes.  Marvin and Zack will fill in around the edges.  

[Zips1991]

18 minutes ago, clarkwgriswold said:

If I had to guess, Tahj, Evan, Pence, White and Hammer will all get decent minutes, followed by Oriol and Perkins.  When Burton returns he and Chabi will split minutes.  Marvin and Zack will fill in around the edges.  

I haven't been impressed by Hammer yet but I'm willing to give it more than two (technically, three) games. 😁

Edited 7 hours ago by Zips1991

[Let'sGoZips94]

The core is Tahj, Evan, Pence, White, Hammer, and Oriol. Burton likely joins that group when he's back. Chabi, Perkins, Marvin, and Zach are the support group and Head will join that when he's back eventually. 10-person roster at the moment, eventually 12-man. It's easily deeper than anybody in the MAC and the goal early on is to figure out where the scoring comes from without Tahj. There's plenty of it on this roster, too. Hard not to be excited. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Let'sGoZips94

[clarkwgriswold]

1 hour ago, Zips1991 said:

I haven't been impressed by Hammer yet but I'm willing to give it more than two (technically, three) games. 😁

I think you'll grow to like his effort and versatility.  He's not going to score a ton of points but he'll do the dirty work.  He also has an edge to him that this squad could use.

 

At the golf outing there was a large group of the players set up between two holes.  They were all very friendly and personable but Buddy was the one kid that immediately walked up to the cart and introduced himself.