Arkley threw out a great stat after the game last night: JC is 16-0 vs the MAC except for Akron, where he is 0-4. Dambrot has had his number since he came back. Dambrot made a simple adjustment last night by taking the ball out of the hands of Betancourt and Evans, then gave it to Diggs. That's the ball game right there. Had Ricardo been in there to guard Diggs, it's a different game. Stevie and Bean were doing great all game until that small adjustment about 4 minutes into the second half.
Offensively, it looks to me like this team reverses the ball way before they should. The guys on the block don't get a chance to establish position before the ball is swung to other side. Many, many, many times Nick/Stevie/Bean/TJ had the ball on the right wing and Mo had a mismatch down low after someone switched on a screen. But before hey got into position to catch, they swung it. He threw his hands up like "cmon, gimme the dang ball."
I'll criticize JC for one thing last night and it was waiting too long to put Wilkins in the game in the 2nd half. He was hot all night and he shoulda been in the game. The problem is that makes the lineup even smaller. Unless we take out Stevie and Bean at the same time and trust Nick to handle it from time to time. Other than that, they rebounded on the offensive end and shot better from three. Ball game Akron.
BTW, the Mrs pointed out that Setty runs like the T-1000. Had a huge laugh with that one.