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Just now, Kevin said:

Nice. I'll take that. 

I'll see you at the next home games press conference?

Are you still allowed or did the coaches yank knock off Barstools credentials after the Perkins suspension tweet

1 minute ago, Kevin said:

Nice. Thanks for the follow.

I don't follow you, you've been the laughing stock of group chats since you tried telling True Blue members (from anywhere and everywhere) that they had to be Bills fans lmao

1 minute ago, 121Merrimac said:

He has good days, and bad.  You never mention the good.

He does it's just when he's on Twitter and saying stuff to their face. See the game where he was complaining about Jordan's effort on here and then tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/kevinmassare/status/1088974525763592192?s=21

Oof most of our away games have been packed but not even a top 25 team can make people care about Akron basketball hahaha

I feel like this one could be a blowout. Akron really struggles offensively, they shoot the 9th highest percentage of 3s and make them at the 299th rate. They could get run out of the gym early. They have one true PG listed at a generous 5'8", he's gonna get man handled by our guards. Also they really only play 7 so they'll probably get gassed and/or into foul trouble. Not much about Akron scares me.

Distinct lack of bench Jeremy Harris posts today

I'm not sure what pro basketball prospects Caruthers has but I'd love to see him pull a Quinten Rollins.  Rollins led the MAC in steals his senior year at Miami (OH) then played football as a CB for one year, won MAC defensive POY and was a 2nd round pick in the NFL draft.

15 hours ago, BleedBlue said:

RIP national ranking and at-large bid.

Joe Lunardi has us as the top 7 seed still lmao

#23 NC State just lost and scored 24 points. Other games to keep an eye on today:

-#20 Iowa St. hosting unranked Texas

-#22 Mississippi St. at unranked Ole Miss

-#19 LSU hosting unranked Arkansas

8 minutes ago, UBigbobby said:

When they're playing well and have their heads on straight I'm not sure there is one!  Problem recently has been that the team in general has been taking halves or long stretches of halves off on defense.  It's not about quality, it's about consistency.  They're still fantastic, but the team just goes to sleep on D for long stretches, especially recently.

Hard disagree to be honest. Our fast style of play is going to lead to seem easy buckets here and there but overall I think our defense is fine. With the MAC as competitive as it is the margin is razor thin and with a team this good we're going to run into hot teams in front of record crowds. Someday people will understand shots going in on a given day isn't necessarily an indictment on the defense. https://theathletic.com/720048/2018/12/18/kenpom-shooting-and-defending-the-3-is-random-business-i-e-relax-its-early/

4 minutes ago, ubfan75 said:

As for an at large bid, MAC commish said we are 7th ranked conference - that’s not exactly a strong argument for a second team in the tournament. 

Assuming he meant NET? But in KenPom the 7th ranked conference has gotten *at least* (in most cases more) 2 bids every year in the last decade. Granted the MAC is currently 9th in KP.

2 minutes ago, UBigbobby said:

Just don't use the E word or people will have a meltdown.  Consistent defense=effort and focus.

Realistically show me a harder working backcourt in the country than Jordan, Caruthers and Massinburg and we can have this conversation.

1.) Save me the bullshit about effort, you weren't watching the same game if you're questioning that.

2.) Harris is struggling but he's still our 3rd best player, benching him isn't the answer. Especially if you're one of the cynical people here that think we have to win the tourney. If that's our only chance than our biggest concern should be getting Harris hot for the tourney (we're still an at Large team tho)

3 minutes ago, ubmae86 said:

Well, the top 25 was fun

Let's not overreact, BG is a better team than NIU and we only dropped 4 spots. We gotta drop 8 to drop out. We'll see but it's not an inevitability.

I'd be pretty shocked if he started from day 1. I can't imagine we start more than one true big and I feel Andre Allen probably gets that spot fairly easily. I'm also not sure based on the highlights that I watched that Hawkins is in the shape necessary to play starter minutes right away. That said he'd still be a good get and would get key bench minutes right away I think.

Also not sure where this bad/lazy defense narrative comes from. Held them 7% below their average points per possession on the year in spite of playing them on the road and having them hit several undefendable circus shots early on. Also held their best player 4 points below his average on an extra shot.

To be fair we don't know how much the ankle injury lingered for Graves. That can be a killer for a player so reliant on his athleticism.

3 minutes ago, eanyills said:

 

Alright, I guess I should be thrilled with four minutes of good ball against mediocre competition.

 

 

 

Enjoy your dead board with ten members. I’m out.

I mean they covered the spread set for the #14 team in the nation. People are delusional if they expect easy 20 point wins every game. People are also delusional if they think effort is the only thing to be blamed in a bad performance. You will be missed.

*typing furiously on keyboard while drinking a beer and sitting on their couch*

"This team is playing with such low effort"

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2 minutes ago, Kevin said:

that's a terrible effort by Jordan to end the half. The team absolutely needs him to be better than 30% from the line, that's middle school level.

Good thing he's over 32% then huh? Regardless getting to the rim in 4 seconds is not a "terrible effort". Unsurprisingly he's not a perfect player, if that means losing .7 points per game or whatever from FT shooting and we get everything else he brings to the table in fine with that.

6'10" 3 star Center out of Prep school power Findlay Prep, would be a huge pickup.

Everyone take a deep breath lol, we're still in fine shape, a Q2 loss isn't going to kill us... Joe Lunardi thinks this hardly affects us:

https://twitter.com/ESPNLunardi/status/1087931637701271552

1. Overreacting is lame

2. Getting mad that we didn’t win on a corner case technical that had nothing to do with the players is lame

Also 3 players we still have offers out on:

10. Tajzmel Sherman

24. Quenton Jackson

32. AJ Bramah

I think going after a player that already holds multiple high major offers says a lot about where our program's at. Most "mid-majors" wouldn't devote resources to recruit a player already holding that list of offers.