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Never really seriously threatened in the second half. Just could not get stops. I’m not feeling very bullish on this team in the big tournament. A lot depends on matchups but we just don’t do enough to affect the other team on D and with our poor rebounding. Got outrebounded by 10 by Georgia, who is known as a poor rebounding team.
 
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DzynKingRTR said:
Tuesday, early tip, game on espnnews, and uga fans don't truly care about basketball. Seems like we are letting their apathy effect us.
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Beg to differ. I was in Stegman last night and the place was rocking. UGA’s center set the tone from the start with about a half dozen illegal screens — none called — and we were pushed around all night, with next to no response from our bigs. Couple that with the slew of jump shots the Dawgs hit in the final stretch … well, the better team won.

With the sudden disappearance of Amari, this has become essentially a three-man team, all of them small. We could not get a stop or a rebound when they mattered most. Georgia played awfully well. It happens.
 
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CrimsonEyeshade said:
Beg to differ. I was in Stegman last night and the place was rocking. UGA’s center set the tone from the start with about a half dozen illegal screens — none called — and we were pushed around all night, with next to no response from our bigs. Couple that with the slew of jump shots the Dawgs hit in the final stretch … well, the better team won.
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This is one thing I worry about come tournament time. Our bigs consistently get pushed around.

We know without certainty that there will be a game or two where the refs allow entirely too much contact for our offense to run like it should. If our guards aren't getting to the line we're gonna be in rough shape.

The rebounding issue we keep running into seems to be effort to me at this point, maybe we're tired? We've been pretty solid there for most of the year. Aside from giving up 100 offensive rebounds a game.
 
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This is one thing I worry about come tournament time. Our bigs consistently get pushed around.

We know without certainty that there will be a game or two where the refs allow entirely too much contact for our offense to run like it should. If our guards aren't getting to the line we're gonna be in rough shape.

The rebounding issue we keep running into seems to be effort to me at this point, maybe we're tired? We've been pretty solid there for most of the year. Aside from giving up 100 offensive rebounds a game.
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Solid, in rebounding. Hardly.
We are outside the top 200 in rebounding margin.
All of our losses are to teams in the top 15 for rebounding margin, except GA. They're about as bad as us.

Early on I hoped that this would improve. It hasn't
 
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cthorne22 said:
Solid, in rebounding. Hardly.
We are outside the top 200 in rebounding margin.
All of our losses are to teams in the top 15 for rebounding margin, except GA. They're about as bad as us.

Early on I hoped that this would improve. It hasn't
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I was just referring to total rebounds per game but you are probably right I've never seen that stat. That is pretty terrible.
 
I figured we'd lose one of the two between UT and UGA. We get an extra day of rest now for AU, although they get the same. Considering we were sitting there at one point 14-7, if we finish 23-8 that's a good finish.

I am not expecting much in the tournament. We clinch the 2 seed in the SECT if we beat AU, which gets us on the opposite side of the bracket from UF, who is going to run away with it unless they decide they'd rather have more rest leading up to the NCAAT.

It all depends on the bracket match ups then, but this team can get bounced in the first round or they may make it to the second weekend. I have a hard time seeing them getting past the sweet 16, though. I'm not trying to write their obituary ahead of time, but all things considered, a sweet 16 run would be a good year, IMO.
 
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We are who we are at this point. But what are we???

We are a team of Thoroughbreds in need of some Clydesdales!

Let's face it. We are physically weak. Philon, pound for pound, is our strongest player. Wrightsell is there too...he's just not as athletic as Philon. But outside of two 6' 3-4" guards, we are simply not made for doing what will need to be done down the stretch.

Sherrell has trouble finishing at the rim. Jemison can't finish at the rim. Amari, although strong for a true freshman, is having trouble at the rim. Bol Bowen? Are you kidding me? He's like a spaghetti noodle. This is not a question of effort or desire on their parts.

How many times did Georgia dunk on us last night? How many times did we dunk on them? HUGE disparity!

This is why we can't rebound. Even when we try to get into rebounding position, we normally don't.

We have one way of winning: outscoring an opponent. We aren't bad at it, but that is not going to get us very far in March.

We can keep ignoring the fundamentals of winning basketball and win 20 games a year, but until we add some brute strength in the paint to impact rebounding and finishing strong at the rim, that's as far as we'll go, perennially.
 
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DzynKingRTR said:
About 80% of the time when we miss, we hae no one near where the ball actually goes. It is weird.
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I've noticed the same. I've wondered if Nate (or our defensive staff) has placed too much emphasis on getting back on defense. Often, Sherrell is left alone under the basket. When we have a couple hang around and scrap for the ball, we come out OK, good hands. We ripped a couple of rebounds away from them. Most of the time, we just have no one there...
 
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TIDE-HSV said:
I've noticed the same. I've wondered if Nate (or our defensive staff) has placed too much emphasis on getting back on defense. Often, Sherrell is left alone under the basket. When we have a couple hang around and scrap for the ball, we come out OK, good hands. We ripped a couple of rebounds away from them. Most of the time, we just have no one there...
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Whatever the reason: whether it's what you mention OR the fact we are so spaced out around the perimeter on offense (probably some of both), our opponents know this and they are sending about 3 or 4 crashing to the board.

It's often 1 or 2 vs. 3 or 4 on the offensive boards. That is somewhat the function of our offensive spacing.

But what I'd like to see us do more is sending 3 to the boards and getting 2 guards back. Against teams who play slower we should send 4! It might help with more second chance points.

But, what is even more perplexing is how we get dominated on the defensive boards. And, here again, it involves our offensive MO. We tend to have 2 to 3 guards lurking in the backcourt waiting to get the ball down court in transition. It's why, even when the other team scores, we often beat them down the court.

We'd be a better rebounding team, as a whole, if we committed more bodies to the boards on both ends....even if it caused us to be slightly slower on the offensive side.
 
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