re: UGA basketball preview for Wednesday 6 CST, SECN

LSU is better than Tennessee and Auburn. Have to play it out on the court though

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Nope, this is why Cooper and Hyatt have not played at all this year.

Probably a rule that should change. Make it similar to football, can play in up to 33.3% of regular season games and still take a redshirt.

Also would make it easier to find hidden gems probably for coaches. Imagine Tyrus Thomas playing some a year earlier.

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Thank you and I agree. Sure the one and dones are gone after one year so it doesn't matter. But it will definitely help the development of the 4-5 year players and encourage some tweeners to accept a redshirt year if it still means playing in 10 games.

In football it has been such a positive that I wish they made it retroactive. Brandon Harris could have used an extra year and probably deserved it. It also takes away the injury redshirt. Edwards could be an automatic redshirt this year.

Anyone watching Kansas and Iowa State?
ISU’s only play is a pick and roll, and KU doesn’t even do that.

Encouraging.

This is one of those games that will really show us where this team is going this year. Past teams would overlook these games. UGA has the size on the starting front line to compete on the boards if we’re sloppy there.

Midweek game, off school Monday for MLK, bad team. Would be an easy one to overlook.

Oh wow, I got pinned

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Oh wow, I got pinned

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Now that you're pinned I think you should change title to show date/time and TV provider of the game. Just to help out

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Good to see you, man. How 'bout LSU basketball?

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It's been a fun run. I've certainly enjoyed it. I didnt think I'd ever see the day where LSU Basketball had multiple podcasts to listen to or all the resources that we have now. It's a great time to be a Tiger fan!

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Wish I could argue but you've mostly nailed it. Our bigs are decent but you aren't going to win anything without a PG, which we don't have. We are also pathetic beyond the arc which makes the non-guard issue worse.

Claxton is really good especially on D around the rim and snagging rebounds. DO is a wide body that is servicable. Hammonds has all the talent but hasn't put it together for some reason. Crump is an enigma, he's the only player on the team that makes 3s with any kind of consistency but he hardly ever plays.

I love Crean and think he was a home run hire for the program, and I'm ecstatic to see what he'll do in his tenure here. But as of right now we simply aren't going to do much of anything due to the roster.

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USC extended their defense out and Waters killed them by basically beating the guards and getting into the lane. Once he got in the paint the frontcourt defenders were screwed. Instinctively, they helped to stop Waters. But in doing so, Waters just dished the ball off for a dunk. The one time they didn't help, Waters cruised in for a layup.

I suspect UGA is just going to pack everything inside and invite LSU to shoot 3's (remember, LSU shot less than 20% last game). That brings of two questions: (1) will LSU just settle for the 3, or (2) will they continue to attack inside against good size? I suspect it will be a little of both and if LSU is knocking down 3's I just don't see UGA staying close unless...

UGA isn't a good offensive team. But like any team, if you give them tons of good looks they'll make about half of them.

If LSU gives the same type of defensive effort they put out vs. OM and USC, then I just can't see UGA keeping it close (unless they have an out of character shooting night)

At home, this is a game LSU should win by 10+. That said, UGA and LSU generally have a way of playing tight games regardless of the quality, or lack thereof, of one or both teams.

I think you have to make us shoot 3's. If UGA can play zone and clog that lane with 6'9, 6'11, 6'8, I'd do it and force us to hit jump shots. Sounds crazy because we're #1 in the conference right now in 3 point %, but we've been pretty hot from 3 outside of last game. And it was really bad against USC at 3 for 19, the difference being they pretty much let us do whatever we wanted inside, and Silva was out most of the game so they had very little to challenge us. Waters just blew by the bigger guards then the euro center was just too slow to do anything and they played Naz' old teammate who was like only 6'5 a bunch inside.

If UGA wants to keep this a game, keep us out of the lane force us to hit more than 3 3's. Otherwise they just wont keep up offensively. If it's like the USC game all over again, if we're hitting 3's and getting inside it'll be 57-31 by the 15:00 mark in the 2nd half.

I think LSU plays style ala 99-00 when we thought team couldn't play better. Recall 00 going on the road and beating Ole Miss by 30 and Bama by 40. I am starting to see that in this team. They average huge leads by 15 min left of 2nd half. Just now putting folks away.


LSU 92 Georgia 66

Waters goes for 30.