Dakota Wizards 101, Erie BayHawks 100 (Box Score)

(Highlights to come when they get posted)

• Okay, let's get this out of the way: LOL MIKE SWEETNEY IS SO FAT WHEN HE SITS ON THE BENCH HE SITS AROUND THE BENCH.  There, are we done?  (And yes, I was guilty of this myself last night.)  That said, there's no getting around* the fact that he's really big.  Really really big.  It means a few things; first, that he can't jump.  He basically needs the ball to fall into his hands to get a rebound, and blocking shots is almost entirely out of the question.  Second, he's ssssslllllooooowwwww.  He can run as fast as he can up the court and still be trailing the play.  Now, for all of that he still has nice hands, is a deft passer, and can hit the midrange jumper.  Sweetney made his first four field goals and finished with 20 points on 12 shots.
• Darnell Jackson also was looking a little big, but that's somewhat understandable since he hasn't playing in a game since March 6.  That said, after a rough start to the game he settled down a bit, and showed some nice moves, and he finished with 32 points and 11 rebounds.  His game reminds me a little of Alexander Johnson's.  Of course, the next possession after getting a fast-break 360 dunk he was late on his defensive rotation, so there's clearly still some work to do on his game.
• His fantastic RU posts aside, I really like Mike Gansey.  He can shoot (well, not last night), he can rebound (eight boards), and he has a great instinctive feel for the game - he had a great save out of bounds to keep the ball in Erie's hands.  I'd criticize him for losing Curtis Withers on the game-winning play, but what is Gansey doing guarding Withers anyway?
• Fresh off his 10-day contract with the Spurs, Cedric Jackson had 22 points, 11 assists, five rebounds and two blocks (and five turnovers) off the bench.  Why was he coming off the bench?  My only guess is that with Darnell Jackson also coming in, coach John Treloar didn't want to throw the lineup out of whack too much.  That meant starting Ivan Harris, though, who really hasn't had a great year compared with last season.
• Erie really could've won this game if they had made more than one three-pointer.  Seriously, on a team with Gansey and Blake Ahearn, they made just one outside shot.  They also had problems late in the first half when Dakota pushed the tempo, as you would expect from a team that features Sweetney, a guy who hadn't played in two weeks, and "Big Steak Omelette" John Bryant.
• This really was a team effort on Dakota's end, but Renaldo Major was fantastic off the bench, finishing with a team-high 17 points and tying the team-high with nine rebounds, in addition to being all over the place on defense.
• Kyle Goldcamp played just one minute, but Eric Musselman talked about how much he liked Goldcamp for pretty much that entire minute.  It started to get weird.

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