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Not necessarily great basketball, but an exciting game and a good win. We're starting to really get exposed when De La Rosa is on the court. We seldom have the length advantage on the perimeter and it's making it easier for teams to prevent us getting it to him deep. And if he doesn't catch it deep it usually doesn't turn out well. I documented the vast difference in efficiency on possessions used by Avery vs. AD last game and I'm sure nothing changed in this one. Need to run through Avery more.

Duling has made huge strides this season and is shaping into what we were expecting. He made some big momentum changing plays today.

As for the technicals I think axeme is right that the Akron guy got it for something that was said. When the players left the court Groce was livid (which is actually his resting state) and Sendy was calm. Then they reviewed it st length specifically looking at the AD shove. It did look like at least one of our assistants was getting into it with Groce too. It makes sense that the refs heard what was said but didn't see what happened though. They say when you lose one sense your others become more sensitive and since the refs seemed to be blind their hearing is probably better. And by that I mean both ways, they made some truly garbage calls on both sides.

AD needs to be smarter though. It seemed clear that Akron's game plan was to get under his skin right from the jump. Their big guy was poking and proding him early and often. Several times AD threw his hands off him and turned to the ref. Unfortunately those tactics worked and got him to do some dumb things.

Finally, I seriously don't understand what Walker did that people have a problem with today. I don't feel like getting into this again but I'll say this. He leaves everything on the court and I really appreciate that. He won a big rebound late between Akron's 7 footer and one of their bigger guards that was pure effort. I felt he helped the momentum a lot too by trying to get the crowd up several times.