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Every SEC Basketball Team's Most Underrated Player: Part 2 of 4
Georgia: Tyrin Lawrence, 6-4 Guard. Senior. Monticello, Georgia.
Lawrence returned to his home state to join Mike White’s surging Bulldogs. White did well on the recruiting trail and in the transfer portal and hopes to be competitive in the SEC for the first time in a while. The Dawgs are 5-0, and Lawrence has been a key cog. Their backcourt is one of the more underrated in the league. They run three guards instead of the traditional two guard set, and each one has a distinct role. Blue Cain is the shooter, Silas Demary Jr. is the floor general, and Lawrence is a pick and roll slashing guard. He will operate nicely with five star big Asa Newell in the pick and roll.
Lawrence can score and shoot efficiently. He made a name for himself at Vanderbilt, scoring in double figures in all but seven games last year. He can score in bunches, and is a proven performer when the lights are bright. It’s easy for me to remember his run with Vanderbilt at the end of 2023, when he averaged 19 points per game across six postseason games (SEC Tournament and NIT):
As a fifth year senior Lawrence provides experience and can be productive on both ends. In Georgia’s last win against Alabama A&M November 19th, he posted a stat line of 12 points, five assists, and six steals. He hit seven of eight free throw attempts and went 1-3 from behind the arc. While not known as a three point marksmen, he shoots it enough that you have to respect it. He’s shooting 43% from three so far in 2024, going 6/14 in five games.”
https://willmanzi.substack.com/p/every-sec-basketball-teams-most-underrated-a00
Next Opponent: Marquette
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Georgia/Marquette
Kam Jones (22.6 points, 6.0 assists, 5.6 rebounds) is playing like a National Player of the Year candidate, but this game is about much more than just the Golden Eagles’ star guard. Today’s tilt represents the first major showcase game of the season for Georgia freshman Asa Newell, who’s quietly playing like one of the sport’s best first-year players. The 6-11 forward is currently averaging 16.8 points and 7.2 rebounds in the Bulldogs’ first five games, none of which came against power conference competition. Marquette has beaten Purdue and Maryland in back-to-back games.
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Dasher UGA Sports: Big opportunity for Bulldogs in Bahamas
“It'll be a high-level game, a good opportunity for us to see where we're at,” head coach Mike White said. “Beating one of these guys would be great. Most importantly, it's a process. It's a journey for this team. Can we continue to make strides? Can we continue to protect our culture? Because I really like what we've got going on right now. At the end of the day, wins and losses will take care of themselves. We've just got to continue to improve and embrace the process and enjoy it. We've got a team right now playing with joy, but now we're (playing) high-level competition, adversity is coming at some point.”
“Who knows what type of adversity we’ll face? How do we handle it? Can we continue to move forward together?” White said. “This trip will give us the opportunity to spend more time with one another than normal circumstances That said, these guys spend a lot of time with each other already. We've got guys in our facility a lot with one another and in the players' lounge and getting extra shots in the gym. It'll be a trip to paradise, which would be really nice, but all the teams down there, there's a business side of it too where we want to come together and see where we stack up against some of the best teams in the country.”
“We’ve got a roster that just has a better chance to be more competitive against high-level competition, and I really like our depth,” White said. “Now, I don’t know what we will do moving forward. Who knows how many minutes some of these guys will play, or how many of our starters will play moving forward? But we’ll continue to evaluate it, and as long as each one of these guys individually is getting better and better, and again, collectively as a team, we will continue to make improvements and everything will work itself out.”
https://uga.rivals.com/news/big-opportunity-for-bulldogs-in-bahamas
Weiszer ABH: Georgia basketball carries unbeaten record to Bahamas for big step up in competition
“You'd like to go 2-0,” third-year Georgia coach Mike White said. “Beating one of these guys would be great, but most importantly, it's a process. It's a journey for this team. Can we continue to make strides? Can we continue to protect our culture? Because I really like what we've got going on right now.”
“We have a roster that has more of a chance to be competitive against high level competition,” White said.
https://www.onlineathens.com/story/...-st-johns-mike-white-rick-pitino/76302624007/
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