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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Mens basketball vs CSU game 1

« on: December 26, 2020, 04:33:50 PM »

Q had an ankle issue today. Hopes to play Sunday.

Poor showing without him. Too many missed shots by all our guys and the pressure defense of CSU caused turnovers leading to layups.  And Cleveland State shot lights out after they got ahead.  Our new guys are not ready except Mayes and our experienced guys without Q were lacking today.  Hope tomorrow is better.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Game two YSU vs NKU on ESPN2

« on: December 20, 2020, 05:52:14 PM »

Great win!  I am surprised with the big turn around defensively. Played with much more intensity defensively than yesterday, even with back to back games and the Covid breaks which would hurt our conditioning. Not nearly so many open 3's. And our press was only used a bit and didn't give up the layups it does at times. Played only 8, really 7 players, as one player had 1 minute of time. More experience on the floor today.

Vargo looks good as does Mayes.  And Vargo is taller so that really helps us overall.  Naz was great especially down the stretch. I was worried late in the game when we had a 5 point lead. I feared missed free throws and missed shots and turnovers, but Naz and Akushe made free throws and shots to help nd overall played great.  Then Mayes had 2 big threes which saved the day.  Still worried about our lack of height as at times taller NKU players got rebounds over the back of our smaller guys without fouling. Now hope we can go to Cleveland State and do well.

I think the Radio show is on tomorrow 5 to 7.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU mens basketball preview

« on: December 19, 2020, 10:05:45 PM »

Obviously looked bad today.  Reminded me of nearly the first game of coach Calhoun's time with us when we played Kent I think at Akron in the Coaches Against Cancer game I attended.  We kept on full court pressing and they continued to get easy lay ups after breaking our press.  Today we doubled the ball and they found the open man for wide open 3's and made them.

We miss Jelani Simmons badly. He left over playing time I think.  Darnell C and the other Senior were done with eligibility, but not Jelani. He was quick, tall, long, and fast.  Our new guys don't have his skill and our lack of size is really hurting us. And as others have said NKU freshman looked really good compared to our guys. The Covid break hurt us, but I think it is more than that. We need to play hard and make shots to succeed. Our new guys looked very tentative at times and really didn't contributed much. Let's hope tomorrow is much improved.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Mens basketball at Binghamton

« on: December 13, 2020, 06:12:09 PM »

I heard that Jamir Thomas is probably out for the year with a torn ACL.

Our inside game will be our problem, no big without Jamir.  Naz will be good, but against bigger inside guys he will not be able to hold them off. Foul shooting of some will be a problem also. 

The new point guard looks good as a person to spell Q.  He is small but good.  Probably how we were able to get him. It will be interesting.

Michael A was real good today and a big part of our season as another presence inside. Garret C also.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Basketball Tourney

« on: March 06, 2020, 12:10:03 PM »

I agree we didn't have a good night and the rebounding battle was lost by us and our shooting in large part was not good.  But we played on Tuesday night till 9 or so.  The players got home and the were up the next morning and got on a bus trip to Chicago ( I am fairly sure it was a bus trip).  That is a long tiring trip even if it was a flight from Pittsburgh or Cleveland.  Then play the next night.  UIC stayed home through all of this and was just fresher in my opinion.  Should have played on Friday to be more fair.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / YSU Softball

« on: March 05, 2020, 10:33:05 AM »

I see that Addy Jarvis who pitched for us last year as a freshman and did very well is now on the University of Illinois team.  A somewhat local player from Matthews High School.  Any input on how this happened?  I see she has pitched in 8 or so games this year so I guess she isn't sitting out a year due to the transfer.

Pitching is the name of the game in baseball, but even more so in Softball.  Big loss for our season.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU vs Houston Baseball

« on: February 29, 2020, 07:06:58 PM »

Winning 2 of 3 from ACU is impressive.  They have been to the College World Series and a number of Regional NCAA Tournaments so they appear to be an upper level program.  Pitching was the key for us with 2 strong outings by the starters with minimal walks.  Our defense was ok and offense enough to win.  Play at Pitt Tuesday if the weather is ok.  Much improved from last year when they started poorly and it lasted all year.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Basketball Tourney

« on: February 28, 2020, 08:46:51 PM »

I agree about Jamir and Jalani.  We need a big to protect the inside.  GB got a lot of layups and we are working for any kind of shot all night.  Ola also. Not sure what the deal is, but we play small most of the time and when Mike Akuchie plays he is more of an outside guy than an inside presence. Jalani is a tremendous athlete, but at home against NK his man got around him a number of times on drives.  Maybe that is the issue.  I am not a fan of  Devin instead of Jalani also.  Jalani has a big upside if they can get it developed.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Horizon League Basketball Tourney

« on: February 27, 2020, 02:27:18 PM »

I feel the game tonight at GB is really important.  We need to develop more scoring than DQ.  At times Donel is hitting and at times Jelani, but neither consistently.  We need one of them to step up and get a typical game from DQ and Naz.  Without that we can be in trouble. Unfortunately Garrett Covington hasn't been doing well offensively except short range shots.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Basketball Falls to Oakland, 72-64

« on: February 16, 2020, 07:57:58 PM »

Lack of a big inside hurts us when we play teams that have one.  They just push their way backwards with the ball in on our 6-8 thinner guy and turn and shoot and get a foul call.  Doesn't seem like refs make that call correctly in my not so educated opinion.  They do that over and over and get easy baskets.  And without us having an inside presence or driving to the basket, the outside shots are contested strongly.  As said before we don't seem to be able to drive and pull up and make short range jump shots.  Too many of our players just shoot up 3's instead of trying to drive inside.  DQ does and is our best player; others don't do that much. 

Our 2 other bigs don't seem to be in much, Thomas and Penderson. Penderson has almost disappeared.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: YSU vs Houston Baseball

« on: February 16, 2020, 07:44:53 PM »

Seems like new players have added significantly to the offense.  Good to see.  And the pitching holding up like it did is impressive.  Need to hold down the walks and we will have a chance.  Again some names pitching that I don't recall from last year.  I saw that Houston was ranked something like 36 in the country.

We need baseball to be successful to avoid it being dropped in favor of soccer or something like that.  Local Baseball is pretty good I think and most people can relate to the game over things like soccer.  I know it is the north, but I like college baseball for YSU.

Listened on YSN and they do a good job.  Steve Lesley is a knowledgeable baseball guy, not just an announcer.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Doug Phillips

« on: February 14, 2020, 02:01:08 PM »

We have a fresh start in Football.  New coach who really seems to want to be here which is so important.  Most of the hires so far have been in contact with JT or one of his former coaches along the way. Most are young and should be hungry to do well rather than guys who have been at the big schools and things didn't work out. Hope they can put it all together.  Recruiting is the key along with hard work with our players who hopefully will buy in to the new group.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Detroit Mercy Game

« on: February 14, 2020, 01:56:58 PM »

We have made progress from past years.  But without DQ we would be in a bad way.  He is the one down the stretch you can count on to make shots from the field and thank God, free throws.  Glad we have him.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Re: Wright St MBB game

« on: January 19, 2020, 09:01:40 AM »

Rob Schmidt said on the broadcast that Jamir was out on Thursday with a back problem.

We are close, but need another top player to help.  Also I thought the refs were against us, but maybe that is because I am a YSU fan.  Love got away with pushing a lot I thought. Need Jamir to touch the ball underneath more in my opinion to get us more easy points.

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YSU Penguin Athletics / Women's BKB

« on: January 18, 2020, 04:47:28 PM »

Women win again today at Detroit.  I know Detroit is struggling, but it is a win without some of our top players. Jen got hurt in the 3rd quarter, our last taller player.  Hope she and McKenzie can be back for the weekend's games.