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February 7, 2008

Georgia loses to Vanderbilt in basketball

In the wake of their 67-59 loss to Vandy, the Dawgs are now 11-9 overall and 2-5 in the SEC. They are riding a hope crushing four game losing streak.

Offensively, the team is averaging 68.4 points per game which puts them at 12th in scoring offense in the SEC. That's the lowest point total per game since Felton's second year when most of the team players were freshmen, castoffs and walk-ons. In SEC games this season, Georgia is averaging only 62 points per game. The team is also 12th in assists, 10th in turnover margin and 12th in assists to turnovers. The team hasn't finished above 11th in the SEC in assists to turnovers in the past three seasons.

And we continue to go critical stretches without any ability to generate any offense. Per the AJC:
Instead they perfected a demonstration of how to lose winnable games in the closing minutes. Georgia was within one point with 4:53 to play but managed only a single basket the rest of the way.
On the bright side, Jeremy Price was allowed to play in this game. He had 16 points (7 of 9 shooting), 3 rebounds, 2 assists and only 2 fouls / 2 turnovers in 32 minutes of action. Price is one of Felton's biggest recruits, but he missed the most of the prior two games because he couldn't or wouldn't do things the Felton Way(TM). The Felton Way got us two close loses as one of our much less talented inside players got unproductive minutes at the expense of the team's #3 scorer and rebounder.

Although, his return got us a loss, too. So there's that. I really don't know or care who was right or wrong. I'm just tired of the outcome.

In the movie Hoosiers, a drunken Shooter comes over to Norman Dale at the restaurant counter and compliments him on "breaking the colts" before he builds 'em back up. Let the record show that it's been five years. At some point we have to stop breaking the colts and focus on building something up.

Speaking of Shooter...the Picket Fence would be a massive upgrade from what we've been seeing offensively lately.

The team's next 6 games consist of UF (away), South Carolina (home), UT (home), Kentucky (away), Vandy (away) and Florida (home). This team needs wins like Paris needs Valtrex.

PWD

1 comments:

peacedog said...

I like Price, but rebounding doesn't seem to be one of his stronger points, which I find disturbing.

I can't say whether Felton should have done what he did with the unofficial benching. I'm with you on the fact that things don't seem to be heading in the right direction at this time. Nothing against Felton, but it's starting to look like something is just awry.

 
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