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Monday night the US Air Force registered their biggest blowout victory since the 2003 bombings in Iraq. They clobbered Georgia by a score of 83-52. We don't do well against a team that back screens us to death. That's Air Force's entire deal. To quote the Athens Banner:
Air Force frazzled Georgia's defense, slashing the Bulldogs with quick cuts through the lane and burning them with 3-pointers. Defensively, the Bulldogs chased Air Force's collection of quick, disciplined players like they were playing duck-duck goose. Georgia was the goose.Although none of that really explains why we played like ass on offense. But again...that's another topic entirely.
"The things that they do just really showed our weakness," senior Levi Stukes said. "They moved without the ball and back cut us and softened us up. Once you get a team rolling like that, it's hard to slow them down."
If there's any solace in such a thrashing (and there isn't), we weren't the only team that had this happen to them vs. Air Force. They also beat Stanford (road), Colorado (road), and Wake Forest (home) by 30-40 points each. They also beat Texas Tech.
Anyway. The season's over. It was a brutal draw facing the exact type of team that would beat us getting off the bus with our systemic defensive incompatability vs. them. That isn't an excuse or an attempt at placing blame. It just is what it is. 19-14 and finishing tied for 5th in the SEC is improvement vs. last year. More on that later.
See Also:
-- Air Force Schedule - KenPom.com
-- Georgia loses to USAF - ABH
-- Ground Brown - ABH
PWD
