Not much positive to say about this one. In a word - Regression. The AP recap is already up as is the box score. If you're looking for "what went wrong," you can probably start with the 26 UGA turnovers vs. the 11 Clemson turnovers. Particularly maddening was the 4+ times that our guards had the ball stolen from them from behind while walking the court up.
On the positive side:
-- Woodbury continues to improve by leaps and bounds. His stat line 14 points on 5-9 shooting including 4-6 from beyond the arc. He only turned the ball over once. Unfortunately, his 4 fouls limited him to 21 minutes.
-- Takais Brown was unstoppable under the basket. He put in 27 minutes, probably his longest stint of the year, while shooting 6-8 from the field for 13 points but only two rebounds.
-- Other than free shooting, Clemson is a good team. We didn't lose to a bunch of tomato cans.
The negatives are too long to list. But to sum up....our leading rebounders were Stukes and Gaines who combined for 15 of our 33 boards. Unfortunately, they also led the team with 14 combined turnovers and 3 of 15 shooting from the field. Our guard play was wretched.
The good news...our 5 best players are Stukes, Gaines, Mercer, Takais and Woodbury, and those 5 could play with lots of folks. Only, I'm not sure if those 5 get on the court at the same time b/c it's such an odd lineup.
It's a long season. Plenty of time for improvement.
PWD
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5 comments:
that lineup could work if Takais gets better on the glass, and Felton becomes willing to put Woodbury at the 4 like he played last year. Would be a fast, aggressive lineup.
We had a problem rebounding out of the frontcourt, and turnovers hurt. A lot could have been prevented if a teammate had yelled out for the ball handler to watch their back bringing it up. We simply do not communicate well on either end of the floor.
I'm not a Felton fan, and I fear this is just the beginning of what has become a trend under his teams ... that is, start decently strong, upset a team or two you shouldn't and then completely implode when the conference slate rolls around.
I think there are some good players on the team, but none outside of Mercer and Brown would start for anyone else in the SEC.
I was at the game and thought we were significantly slower then clemson. Speed kills even in BBall. Stukes and Gaines spent too uch time on the bench. They would not have made as many mistakes if they were in there long enough to develop some rythym. Did not understand our substitution patterns, seemed inconsistent, as if Felton would get mad a player and instantly take him out. Our lack of experience at the post will catch up with us in league play.
Gotta disagree with you on the Mercer and Brown comment, Jmac.
I like our lineup but they're not playing as a unit. They really only have once this season, which was against Gonzaga and we all know how that turned out.
The truth is, with better communication and more physical inside play, this team could match up well with nearly every one of them in the SEC (excluding Florida and maybe LSU with their strong inside game).
Felton has recruited well and we're showing improvement, but I think it's obvious how important it is for Gaines to lead this team. Mercer can't handle the spotlight yet (just look at the Tech game), and Stukes is pretty much content to just shooting the three.
If our team can drift into the roles they're given and execute that role properly, I believe we're a solid team. However, if everyone tries to make something happen, we're going to keep looking confused on the court.
The one directly above is from Ludakit, by the way. Had to work on Saturday morning so I couldn't sign in with my ID.
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