Reno Bighorns 94, Fort Wayne Mad Ants 90 (Box Score)

• Reno started off this game playing really disjointedly, turning it over on their first two positions and not hitting many shots, but they regrouped thanks to some excellent defense, and finally took over in the second half.
• Rod Benson had a terrific game.  18 points on 7-9 shooting and 15 rebounds, as well as pretty much textbook post defense against Jared Reiner, Rob Kurz and Sean Sonderleiter.  Reiner was held to 1-12 shooting, Sonderleiter attempted just two field goals and Kurz struggled when matched up against Boom Tho (Kurz finished with decent numbers, 19 and 12, but a lot of that came against Cezary Trybanski).
• Ron Howard had an excellent first half before almost disappearing in the second.  21 points overall, but 15 of those game in the first half, but he also had eight boards and played lock-down defense on Desmon Farmer.
• Dan Dickau came off the bench in this game but ran the offense down the stretch.  That was somewhat surprising to me as he threw the ball away and lost his dribble several times, and generally looked like he wasn't entirely in tune with the offensive system.  I'm sure that will change with a few more games and practices under his belt, but it was a bit curious last night.
• Joe Alexander and Yaroslav Korolev guarded each other for large stretches of the game.  I wonder if it was like looking into a weird, athletic mirror.

Iowa Energy 112, Los Angeles D-Fenders 95 (Box Score)