Georgia is 12-2 with wins of GA Tech, St. Johns and Notre Dame and losses to Marquette and Ole Miss
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Especially road ones.
Very tough. Georgia has a very physical style and defense drives the ship. It will be a battle of styles. If it becomes a mud wrestling match, could be tough to win. If it becomes a track meet, we could make a statement. Don’t see UGA keeping up if we put up numbers
Well, it's an SEC road game against a team ranked #50 at Kenpom. They're ranked ahead of teams like Indiana, Mizzou, and LSU. They have a veteran coach in White. It won't be easy.
It’s a road game, sandwiched between two ranked opponents. Georgia has some talent. It will be a tough game. We need to continue to share the ball well, Defend ball screens, and it would be awfully nice to not start the game in a hole. Lot harder to dig out when you don’t have the home crowd behind you. And we absolutely MUST prevent second and third chance points.
Georgia young big is a force. The winner of the game could be decided by how well Amari Williams performs in this one.
The refs will keep it close because they love underdogs at home and hopefully it either breaks our way or we shoot well enough to make the refs a non-factor.
probably t shirt night and the place will be rocking
So what you’re saying is Amari has 2 fouls going in…..and if not definitely before the first tv timeout.
We really have to be disciplined in this game. Georgia draws a lot of fouls, especially on the perimeter. But I’m no Amari hater, I expect he could be pivotal in helping us steal a win. As others have stated, the boards will be key in this one as Georgia is an excellent offensive rebounding team and with a raucous crowd, such a thing becomes even more important. We really do not want to get off to a slow start in this one.
If Ohio State can rout us on a neutral floor, they can beat us in their house if we aren’t ready to play.
Yup… UKs gotta play through physicality or they’ll get beat, period..
I'd say very much like the Clemson game. So, definitely tough and definitely could be a loss.
Every SEC road win is a cause for celebration and a sigh of relief that it's over lol.
Were gonna be very battle tested come tournament time.. all of SEC will be.
Were gonna be very battle tested come tournament time.. all of SEC will be.
Anytime UK is town it's the biggest game of the year. Gonna be a blackout free t-shirt kisscam 1/2 draft kinda night in Athens.
We need to play through Carr instead of jacking up 45 threes on a January night. They will hit everything like everyone always does and we need to stay in the game and finish business in 2nd half.
Any decent team can beat anyone who doesn't show up to play such as UK v OSU. That was just an ass kicking, literally. We slept through that game and OSU was ready to play and just manhandled us. Hopefully we learned from that. Rebounding is mostly sheer determination and keeping a body on your man. Against a lot of teams, UF included, we just gave up way too many easy offensive rebounds that resulted in about 30 points. As well as we played offensively, we still lose that game if UF shoots 70% from the FT line.
This team can get better at defensive and offensive rebounding and the rest of our season really depends on it. Florida is a more athletic team than UK and so was OSU, but there is never an excuse for being manhandled on the boards. We can't always count of having 6 guys in double figures, hitting 14 3s and scoring 106 points. 8 or 9 times out of 10 you lose when you give up 100 or more points like we did against UF. Even then we only won because they only hit 62% of their 35 FT attempts. Our defense and rebounding must improve and let's face it, OSU and Clemson were 2 teams that opted not to get into a track meet with us; the result was 2 losses.
I'm thinking UGA may try to grind this out. Slow down the game to keep us from having our up tempo style.
It may be a nail biter but I think we will win despite their home advantage.
a UGA media account just released the injury report for both teams and it lists Koby brea as questionable for tomorrow
Have a bad feeling every arena is crazy when Big Blue shows up, if we aren’t making shots we could easily lose this game
Why did OP mention wins over a 7-7 Notre Dame and an 8-7 Georgia Tech team like they’re notable wins? Lol. If we keep them off the offensive glass we should win and cover. Obviously it would be nice to have Brea
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I really hate to say this but I think tonight’s game will go as the referees want it to go. First of all, does Pat Adams walk into the arena? Secondly, do they allow GA to grab and bump us all over the floor for the entire game. I’d say the answer to both is yes, but I think we win a grinder anyway.
I am becoming more convinced that refs are playing the spread rather than trying to play the winner. I'm not a gambler, but it would not surprise me that putting money on a spread has a higher return than putting it on the winner. Also, a ref manipulating to the spread may not appear as obvious as playing for an underdog win, even at the underdog's home.
What's funny about this "home underdog" thing - UK rarely if ever gets the same kind of home whistle other teams get. KU, IU, Duke, UNC, Arizona, Mich St, UT and even Miss St always seem to get crazy good home ref treatment. But UK? Even if we're an underdog we don't get the treatment.
But as CGblue says - just hit our shots and it makes the refs' attempts to manipulate a game in their gambling favor much harder. That's all we can hope for.
If we are in a position with a chance to win at the last t v time out then we have met expectations.
If that holds up after tonight then goodness the SEC will be a bloodbath on the road. Tenn, UK, Auburn, and Miss St all play road games. Wonder how many come away with a road victory?
Going by the spread, the road teams should go 3-2 tonight. We'll see how that holds up. UK is only favored by 1.5, Tennessee is a 2.5 point underdog.
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