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More positives from last night:

-Dougie is becoming a defensive force in the paint with five more blocked shots last night. He leads in the MAC in blocks per game right now, in case anyone didn't know that. I was surprised to see he didn't score, but when all the guards are as hot as they were I guess you don't really need him to last night.

-Can't say enough about Jordy's shooting. It opened up a whole realm of other possibilities for the offense when Akron tried their damndest to focus on him. A couple times he hit some wide open shots and I'm thinking to myself "how do they keep letting him get THAT wide open?"

-Gavin another good all around game (14-5-4) and improved his free throws (5/7).

-Jimmy G another solid shooting night off the bench (3/5 from three, 4/4 free throws). Nice to have another hot shooter come on the floor in case someone else isn't hitting.

-Zach B another night struggling to score, but still ended the night with a line of 7-3-3 and ZERO turnovers. Gotta love him taking care of the ball.

-Team shot 82% from the FT line. Much, much better boys!

-19 assists on 32 made baskets

-Defensively held Akron to 6/26 from three

-Crowd seemed really engaged even if they were small, but hard not to love the hot hand that Jordan had last night. Glad he got a much deserved standing ovation.

Negatives:

-Few too many turnovers even in a blowout. Sometimes the team likes to get a head of steam and go 1 on 2/3/4 and gets caught in no man's land. Trying to make too many wow plays and be a little too aggressive isn't how this group excels. Just pull the ball out, chew some clock and get a better look.

-Still have lapses of poor help side D that lead to some easy looks and/or 2nd chance points off a missed shot and offensive rebound for the other team. You can get away with it when you're beating a team by 20+ but that needs to be shored up for those tight game situations.

My bet with his guys and another year of coaching, that won't happen next year. As frustrated as Groce was at Illinois at times this has to be really frustrating for him.

I really cannot explain just how awesome last night was.

This is my busy season and I had to really talk myself into taking the time to go.

One of my favorite nights in the convo ever.

Lou calls him this over the PA. I think I've heard Saul call him Jimmy once or twice also.

Then somebody tell "Sweet Lou" to come up with something else. Otherwise we're going to be seeing "Jimmy G - For 3!, asterisk NOT the San Francisco 49ers Quarterback"

Just call him JG3NSF49QB.

+1

I don't understand the issue about this nickname either. I kind of like the "3 by Jimmy G"! And, Jimmy, keep 'em coming!

Ha. Ha. Very funny smart @ss :).

This was meant to be thread drift, not a "thing". Certainly not offensive in any way shape or form. Mostly just a confusing and annoying side note.

Nobody will confuse any of our other nicknames with anybody else. It's pretty obvious who we're referring to. Except this one.

No offense to James "Jimmy G" Gollon, but Jimmy Garoppolo has about four hundred billion more times of name recognition, and that's who people are naturally going to think you're referring to (at least mine does). It just gets compounded by the fact that we don't have a "Jimmy" listed on our roster. Means people read it as Garoppolo, know that can't be correct, then have to pause and think a minute about who in the world they actually mean. Just a pain.

Then again, maybe my calling attention to this has made it enough of a "thing" that nobody will ever confuse it again lol.

Stat from the Zip game that surprised me: We scored 99 and our 2 bigs Doug/Mickle combined to score 2pts!

It's one of the things I do best.

When I heard Lou announce Jimmy G had made a 3-point basket, my first thought was how could he possibly have college eligibility and how long would Ohio go on probation for playing a professional football athlete.

Good grief some of you are absurd.