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I'm not going to let the implosion at the end of tonight's WKU vs. UGA b-ball game drag me down. I'm hoping that we had no timeouts left in the final 17 seconds. Otherwise, Felton did an even worse job than I thought. Rather than dwell on the negative...let me say this about Albert Jackson.
This kid is unlike any big man that we've recruited as long as I've been following Georgia hoops (17 or so years). Jackson is 6'10" and 240-250 lbs of grown ass man. He's faster, quicker, stronger and more athletic than I anticipated. He's got a certain explosion about him. He's raw as can be, but he's not the sort of stiff as a board project like Singleton or Dryden were when they got here. He's got the body control of a much smaller man.
Kids this tall with his raw athletic skills historically have never signed at Georgia. In a year or two...watch out. Kudos to Felton for beating some quality programs to land him.
Hopefully, Takais Brown joins the team SOON.
PWD
PS - Channing Toney has left the program.
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boy, who wrote that statement out for Channing Toney? If UGA basketball is so special to him, why is he leaving?
I havent decided yet if Dennis Felton is going to save basketball at UGA, or drive it right off the cliff. I've been hearing about Channing Toney since he was a 9th grader at Brookwood. A friend had a son on the team, and I never heard anything but good stuff about CT. I certainly have no special knowledge about him, especially concerning his stay at UGA, but he seems like the kind of kid you'd want to keep in the program.
Why wouldnt Felton try to keep a kid like this around? He's a solid player, and its not like we're oversubscribed with talent at ANY position.
i still don't understand why we give a hoot about basketball...
it's not a georgia sport. We do football and baseball. That's it. Why do we care if we have a medicore basketball team? Hell we have a medicore swimming team but you don't see me giving two craps....
Hey anon, why don't you do yourself and everyone else here a favor and STFU. I'm betting you cared back when Harrick had us winning the East and getting 3 seeds in the tourney. Or were you "too young" to even remember WAY back that far? I got news for ya slick, 99.999% of this country cares FAR more about college hoops than aluminum bat baseball. It ain't even close. I happen to love both, but that's beside the point. You should probably stop saying 'we' until YOU become one of us, ie a REAL Georgia fan, not some fairweather douchebag.
And for the record, that "mediocre swimming team" has won several national titles, as well as all those other sports "we" (ie. YOU) don't care about such as golf, tennis, and the biggest sport of all at Georgia as far as championships go, GYMNASTICS. Suzanne has her program on a level Richt can only even dream of... hell Pete Carroll and USC can't touch her trophy case. So why don't you head over to GeorgiaDogs.com, and/or zip it until you have a clue, bub. kthx
Um, I believed he actually called it "medicore," which I had always thought was a sub-genre of hard-core punk rock specifically about health-care issues.
If Brown is indeed better than Jackson, which is what I've heard, our inside problems are a thing of the past. The troubling thing is that guard play killed us last night.
I am a Dawg. I root for the red and black, and care about the red and black in everything. Football, basketball, baseball, swimming, track, tennis, golf, equestrian, average SAT scores, graduation rates, research grants; everything. So, I care about the basketball team, and while basketball is like any other sport where some days it just isn't your day, last night was frustrating because we should have won. We played well enough to win for most of the game, and fading at the end is hard to accept. WKU is a decent team,but we should have won. That said, we still look better than last year; I have to hope we won't have too many games like last night the rest of the year.
Until Dennis Felton implements an offense that actually has some off the ball movement, and teaches proper spacing on that end of the floor. We'll never reach the heights that he (and we) want to climb to.
Yeah, I really really want to believe that we can be pretty good this season. But last night looked like last year...if we make 3s, we win; if we don't, we lose. And the turnovers last night were pretty brutal too in the second half. It was very sloppy for both teams, but it was a real bummer for us to run out of gas like that at the end.
We have to establish an inside presence somehow, so that we don't have to live and die by the 3. That's all there is to it.
And, man, that Brazleton kid for WKY is FAST.
Not being able to finish a game this early in the season is not a good sign, however I have a lot of faith in Felton and think that he was a great hire. He knows how to turn programs into winners. He hasn't had much to work with these past few years and has done a lot with very little. I for one will do all I can to support a program that continues to rebuild. Yes we fell apart at the end of the game, but on the plus side, I saw a transition game that hasn't been at UGA since Tubby.
As to the timeout comment, I believe we had one and took it after the last foul, before WKU hit the two free throws to go up by two. Dantzler was trying to figure out on the air why we took it then and didn't save it to get the ball across half-court and then use it.
So how long 'til Felton kicks Jackson off the team for not wearing his socks on the right way?
Man, is it already that time of year when we get the pleasure of having fellow UGA fans care enough to tell us how much they don't care about UGA basketball? I'm with gdawg....shut up.
Well, as far as our swimming team... the women are constantly in the nations top 3 (4 national titles if I'm correct.) I don't see how that's mediocre.
By the way.. I'm tired of people giving crap to our "non-money" sports teams. The men and women of our smaller sports bust their behinds, often with little recognition and only partial scholarship assistance(or none at all), to represent the university in a positive manner. Not only that, many of our "non-money" teams manage to be competitive at a national level. If you don't follow them, fine...who cares? But don't bash them when you don't know WTF you are talking about.
As far as our basketball team... we still have a long way to go. The Harrick mess is behind us but we've had to build from the ground up. Our half-court offense seems to be what's hurting us, but we seem to do well in transition. IMO defense is the key this year... giving up less easy baskets, less putbacks etc.
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