Georgia Bulldogs at South Carolina Gamecocks Basketball Game Night Open Comment Thread
by T Kyle King on Jan 30, 2010 5:00 PM EST
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PrintGeorgia Bulldogs at South Carolina Gamecocks, Jan 30, 2010 7:00 PM EST
The South Carolina Gamecocks are coming off of what probably is the biggest win in their program's history. The Georgia Bulldogs are coming off of a stomping administered to them on the road by the accursed Florida Gators. Does that mean the Classic City Canines are in a position to upend the Palmetto State Poultry in a basketball season in which no one seems to be able to cope with success?
I hope so, but, once again, I'm not holding my breath until the Fox Hounds prove they can win on the road. A fired-up Mark Fox drew a technical foul in Gainesville, so I'm sure he has the troops fired up for this critical conference test. Whether the Hoop Dogs win or lose, however, you are welcome to join the conversation in the comments below.
Go 'Dawgs!
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For what it's worth . . .
. . . I was at my son’s Upward basketball game this morning (by the way, Thomas earned a grey star for offense and scored a goal in a 26-20 victory in which his team, the Bulldogs, overcame an early 10-0 deficit) when a friend of mine (whose son plays on a team in the same league) told me he had two tickets to the game tonight and couldn’t go.
I wasn’t in a position to take them, and (after attending the 1996 and 2000 Georgia-South Carolina football games in Williams-Brice Stadium) I am disinclined to go to sporting events in Columbia, but, man, it would have been nice. . . .
Go 'Dawgs!
Man, I'm glad . . .
. . . I didn’t take those tickets.
Being in Columbia with gloating South Carolina fans? Not fun. They’re like Georgia Tech fans, minus about 75 IQ points.
Go 'Dawgs!
Beat those Cocks!
I think we match up better with SCAR — particularly because 2 of their big men are gone for the year. Nonetheless, our ability to cover Downey in the first 5 minutes or so should tell us everything we need to know.
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
Good points RedCrake . . .
I think that if we can keep the turnovers to a minimum and play our game in the front court, we should be in good shape. I’d also like to see Trey Thompkins stay out of foul trouble. We don’t need to be without him on the road if this one goes down to the wire. I’m counting on South Carolina to come out a bit soft after the kentucky victory.
On an unrelated note, you’ll be pleased to know that Georgia has picked up its second football commitment for the class of 2011, Griffin H.S. safety Corey Moore. Moore is 6’2 and 195 pounds midway through his junior season. He could ultimately grow into a linebacker or stay at safety.
On a somewhat related note, mea culpa for obscuring the open comment thread. I think this is the first time Kyle and i have ever set two posts to automatically appear at the same time, which is kind of amazing given the number of posts on this site over the past 2+ years.
Don't you mean . . .
. . . “Beat Mor Chikin”?
If the Gamecocks ever make it to the Chick-fil-A Bowl, MaconDawg and I are going to sell T-shirts.
Go 'Dawgs!
Alright... Here we go...
I say to you in the words of tankertoad, “We are going to lose!!!”
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
Go Dawgs!
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
Geez, what a shot :(
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
and another...
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
No problem, MaconDawg . . .
. . . and you’re right, it’s pretty astounding it hasn’t happened before.
Can you believe this is an SEC game between two teams who both lost to Wofford?
Go 'Dawgs!
Agreed
It’s the sort of thing a fellow would say when sitting down in a bathtub and discovering water displacement, or when coming up with the state motto of California.
Go 'Dawgs!
I think...
We can safely say Coach Fox worked on rebounding and turnovers this week. After they settled down its been relatively one-sided.
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
Wow! Leslie
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
On his Twitter...
Mark Fox said that the TV wasn’t working in his hotel last night.
Hopefully he wants to take it out on the entire city of Columbia.
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
I hope we can keep Trey and Travis next year...
’cause I think this team could bust it wide open.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Oh coolies -
we have the high score – that’s good right? Lowest score is only good in golf – right?
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Wow - they have names for shots?
And i’m guessing they don’t mean shots of alcohol?
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
These Sam Adams aren't twist offs, are they?
No wonder my hand is bleeding.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Is it half time?
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Yes...
we’re up by two…and that’s a good thing.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Y'all are going to have to help me
through this Basketball thing…..I haven’t learned it yet.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
It puts the lotion in the basket.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Seriously...
all you need to really know is that
A: Albert Jackson is good on defense, not so good on offense (#34 in your program)
B: Trey Thompkins (#33) should handle the ball at least once in every possession, unless it’s a fast transition
C: Travis Leslie is going to have to register with the FAA.
D: You can’t twist off a Sam Adams with your bare hands.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I thought they played this game
with a big orange ball – i can’t imagine a bottle of lotion bounces all that well and isn’t bouncing of the ball required in this game?
smartass.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Halftime Stats:
Field Goals:
Georgia: 14 of 31 (45.2%)
South Carolina: 15 of 33 (45.5%)
3-Pt. Field Goals:
Georgia: 2 of 6 (33.3%)
South Carolina: 5 of 9 (55.6%)
Free Throws:
Georgia: 8 of 13 (61.5%)
South Carolina: 4 of 7 (57.1%)
Prior to the final five minutes, the Bulldogs were leading in all three of those categories, but they let it get away from them at the end.
Go 'Dawgs!
McPhee isn't on McFire.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
We get the ball first... Let's come out and jam it down their throats...
I’m looking at you Leslie.
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
More Halftime Stats:
Free Throws:
Georgia: 8 of 13 (61.5%)
South Carolina: 4 of 7 (57.1%)
Rebounds:
Georgia: 17 (7 offensive/10 defensive)
South Carolina: 18 (8 offensive/10 defensive)
Turnovers:
Georgia: 4
South Carolina: 7
Points Off Turnovers:
Georgia: 9
South Carolina: 8
Points in the Paint:
Georgia: 20
South Carolina: 16
Bench Points:
Georgia: 6
South Carolina: 9
Second-Chance Points:
Georgia: 6
South Carolina: 10
Again, all of those numbers were better for the Bulldogs before the final five minutes prior to the break. I’ve got a bad feeling about this. This one could get away from us quickly.
Go 'Dawgs!
By the way, if any of those numbers don't look right to you . . .
. . . blame CBSSports.com GameTracker, not me. GameTracker says we’re down 39-38 at the break, which is different from what the SB Nation scoreboard software and DavetheDawg say, so, clearly, something is fouled up on their end.
Go 'Dawgs!
Travis Leslie will break a backboard before this season is over.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Travis Leslie
needs his own highlight show. We’ll call it ESPN-TL.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Not quite..
It’s Leslie Almighty!
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I think we've got the two best players in the SEC...
If we had a little more depth and better rebounding, I’d say we might make the dance this year.
How 'Bout Them Dawgs!
If we had another bonafide shootin' guard
we’d be even tougher than we are becoming…and that help will be here next year.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Was that the drummer from Hootie?
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I had English 101 with 'Nique. He sat right next to me.
In fact, the whole 1980 basketball team was in that class.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I give up....
It’s Travis Leslie’s world. We only get to visit.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
anyone know
how many fouls Trey has?
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Trey for Tres!
That’s a pro shot there.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Did Thompkins just blow a kiss to the announcers?
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
Student body, I think....
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Well he just blew a kiss to someone......
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
I thought it was cute
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Am I to understand
that if a player commits 5 fouls they are out of the game?
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Correct....
In high school and college, 5 fouls and you’re gone. In th pro game, you get 6.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Wow, Mc, great shot
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
Yes, Ware
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
Man...
shot for shot game here.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
This is gonna go right down to the end...
At least we have some experience in that area…albeit bad.
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
Downey is a good example,
that you don’t have to be tall to play good BB.
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
Geez, wish we could finish these games out.......
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
I have homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies to share
will that help?
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
I guess I picked the wrong week to quit sniffin' glue.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
+100 tubes of Testor's to you, sir.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
How the hell did we lose this game? We are clearly the better team.
That is crazy. It is never good to lose to a podunk bunch from east of us in anything.
How did that happen? Some scub name Muldrow has the game of his life and a horrible shooting team shoots 53% from 3? That is crazy. We are much better than they are and I cannot believe we pee’d this one away.
All season long.....
When asked what aspects of Heyward’s game need improvement, one scout simply replied, "Nothing."
Can anybody who knows basketball better than I do...
tell me why we didn’t put anybody on the line for Ware’s FT at the end? I get that he’s a good shooter, but still — we essentially conceded the ball back to SC with almost no time left. I assume we wanted to have guys back to prevent Carolina going the other way, but already down one with three seconds left, who cares? We had to have a rebound there.
Oh well. I’m never happy with just keeping it competitive, but if we show ANY improvement in Year Two, we can win a ton of games. Sure hope Thompkins and Leslie come back…
That's a good question...
and i’ll be interested to see what coach Fox says about it. Hang with this team, though.. These tough losses are tough lessons and will bode well for the future. And if Leslie and/or Thompkins returns the future is indeed very bright.
This is a good team. They just can’t close. We need Alec Baldwin’s character from Glengarry/Glen Ross to give ’em a pep talk, methinks.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Just skimming through the comments . . .
. . . I scanned by that picture and momentarily thought it was Dale Cooper giving the lecture outdoors in front of the blackboard in “Twin Peaks.”
By the way, Alec Baldwin’s pep talk involved telling everyone they didn’t deserve coffee and ought to be fired. I don’t see that going over too well.
I hope you’re right, Dave, but I remember Willie Martinez’s defense sustaining some tough losses that taught some tough lessons in 2008. They did not bode well for 2009.
Granted, there are many ways to attack that analogy, which I hope is incorrect, but I have abandoned all hope that sucking now is a prelude to succeeding later. Sucking now may merely be a harbinger of sucking yet to come.
Go 'Dawgs!
No one is getting fired...
but if the team is not rewarded with an espresso on the ride home, that’s okay.
One of Willie’s well chronicled criticisms was that he never adjusted. At least Fox makes adjustments on-the-fly. We can’t help it if they launch bombs from Ft. Sumter that strip the net.
A wise man once wrote:
“To do is to be,
To be is to do,
Do be do be do.”
That really has nothing to do with sucking, but I really believe this team will suck less than they sucked tonight or last Wednesday night-next Wednesday night. And next year, the suck factor will decrease in it’s suckitude provided we don’t lose a few key players to the pro’s early, which would indeed suck. It’s too early to say if past sucking is a harbinger to future sucking for this team, but I really believe that sucking is all relative (and some relatives suck), and as long as we keep the overall sucking to a minimum and keep playing hard every night without sucking too much wind, our long basketball national nightmare won’t suck nearly as bad as it has traditionally sucked in the past.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I hope you're right, Dave
I’m about one more bad week of Georgia athletics away from writing a posting asking what we possibly could have done to deserve this. Aside from the Lady Dogs’ resurgence after a fairly lengthy (by Andy Landers’s standards) downcycle, we now suck at everything.
I will grant that, in the midst of all the suckage, there are glimmers of hope that the day may come when it will cease to suck, but I’ve been burned one time too many to believe it until I see it. When you expect the worst, your only options are to be proven correct or pleasantly surprised, but, damn, I’m ready to be pleasantly surprised just once . . . about something to do with Georgia athletics. I’m about ready to change the name of the site to “Suck Sports.”
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Jan 30, 2010 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
Well that sucked...
We have Arky on Wednesday, which is as close to a sure thing as we’re gonna get this year. Better make it count.
"I Run This State." - Washaun Ealey and Caleb King
RedCrake, I am officially blaming you in advance for Wednesday's loss
You just jinxed it, dude.
Go 'Dawgs!
A little Schadenfreude for you to feel better...
Tim Tebow, 50% completion rate today for 50 yards. Pretty average for a fullback. Pretty horrible for a quarterback.
No word on his tasty tear count…
Now, back to your regularly scheduled basketball malaise.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
good news - i enjoyed my birthday with my beautiful girl rather than waste time hoping for the hoop dawgs
Kyle was right – need road win. (notice, not win_s_) and need back to back wins.
"I look forward to developing an aggressive, physical, attacking style defense that offenses will not look forward to playing against." - Coach Grantham
Happy Belated Birthday
Glad to hear you had a good time.
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances." Mark Twain
Glad you had a good birthday.
Yours and mine are in close proximity to one another… my b-day is this Wednesday.
by vineyarddawg on Jan 31, 2010 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
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