There has been talk all year about being closer in games and being more competitive, but bottom line is our conference record is the exact same as it was last year, 6-12. Last year we finished 11th in the conference, this year we finished tied for 11th in the conference. Are we better this year? Yes. But we don't have much to show for it.
The book seems to be out on UGA. Swarm our wings and make them take really contested threes, take your chances every where else. Other players besides the wings are putting up bigger numbers but it's not enough to propel us to W's. Our three point shooting from our wings has been pretty abysmal the last 8-10 games and our record has shown as much once those numbers went down.
Tonight we fought and played hard as we always do. We just didn't have the playmakers Auburn did. I'm not going to say Auburn was toying with us. It wasn't that, we made Auburn play hard the whole time. It just didn't feel like Auburn had to be completely locked in on us. The intensity wasn't quite there from them. They kept us at arms length and cruised to a 14 point W.
Stats of the night:
Assists
Uga - 9
Auburn - 29
That was by far the biggest stat of the night. They worked the ball around for nice clean looks and we dribbled the ball a lot.
Demary with a nice shooting night. 3 for 3 from deep. The problem is he finishes with only 18 threes for the year. But great to see him be knock down tonight. We would have really been hurting without those 3 threes.
Tchewa with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Good stat night, although he did have 4 turnovers. But teams seem content to let him try and create offense and see what happens.
I personally didn't have Sunahara getting 19 minutes tonight on my bingo card, so that was a surprise. I'm not sure there is much more to say about the lineups. It will be interesting to see what we do Wednesday.
Two points of excitement. We are in a tournament on Wednesday and thats exciting. Anything can happen there. Also, portal officially commences in 9 days.
Go Dawgs!