@CookedbyCain Could be the case. Just to me anytime he got the ball down low it was throw a shoulder into defenders chest. If he could move them, dunk it. If not it turned into some kinda flailing lay up attempt. Just wasn’t super versatile offensively imo. Will miss rim defense though
@mike34990@TopTierUGA We will miss the rim defense, but offensively the guy could not score unless he was directly under the rim. Zero post moves whatsoever.
“We weren’t ready to play today, and we didn’t act like we wanted to be here."
Jeremiah Wilkinson was blunt about Georgia's embarrassing 102-77 loss to Saint Louis in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
https://t.co/6ias2gCrl6
Mike White on Smurf Millender and Jeremiah Wilkinson saying they felt like there was a lack of effort in the 104-77 loss to Saint Louis…
“I can’t dodge that. We played with less effort than we did in any game this season, and it’s not even close. Not even close. That last group or two in the final five or six minutes mustered up some turnovers, some stops, shared it a little bit, fell into some open threes, made some, missed some, got a couple offensive rebounds, but they were quicker to the basketball for 40 minutes. I’ll have to go back and reevaluate everything we did. Did we go too hard in practice? Did we go too long? We went twice today, we went twice yesterday. They played more fresh for sure, so I will always look in the mirror first with our preparation. But our guys were juiced before the game I can tell you that. With their body language and what they were vocalizing to us and to each other. I think that these things happen more often in the NCAA Tournament than they do in the regular season, they just do. Heck we were more resilient and played harder through negative plays on the road in the SEC in front of 23,000 booing us, but I agree with some of the things Jeremiah said.
We didn’t play very hard when we got off to a really tough start and not making shots and getting beat down the court. We had some effort plays early, which we’ve seen all year. Our defensive rebounding numbers are atrocious. They’re atrocious. They have been all year. We’ve been able to overcome it by better offense at times and turning you over, but they got second possessions early off just simple missed block outs. Credit these guys, they’re wings, their attention to detail with blocking out, with screening for one another, all those little things that we’re just trying to get better at everyday, you wish we would’ve done it better down the stretch, in this one and in the SEC Tournament, but when you find yourselves down 6, 8, double-figure points early and the stage is big and emotionally you were really ramped up before the game and it’s not going well for you, emotions can get the best of you.
I’ve been there before as a player, and you try to help these guys just stay in the moment, and be where your feet are, and next play mentality, just think. ‘I know we’re down 8 and I just missed a shot, what is my next play?’ Turn around and sprint back. Who am I matched up with, jump to the ball, contest a shot… We looked, when we got down 12 points our body language was ‘oh my gosh what just happened?’ which is unlike this team.
This team has been, you guys know it, this team has been so resilient. We went in and watched some plays at halftime that I’ve never seen this team do. That I’ve never seen us do, not them, us. With point blank layups at the rim, with guys looking and not even jumping and trying to contest a shot. Just the lack of effort was really disappointing. I haven’t experienced something like that in a long, long time. I don’t remember the last time. And I certainly haven’t seen this team play like that with that lack of effort defensively and on the glass, but at times we played really hard with the ball in our hands, and that’s not the right recipe as we know. They were way more connected than us. We practiced better yesterday than we played today, but credit Saint Louis.
I told Josh (Schertz) that Dusty (May) may try to call me and get some tips, but he may not, because I’m not sure what we did really well, you know, to help Michigan, but we wish Saint Louis the best and we would’ve liked to advance of course but just obviously didn’t play anywhere near where we needed to play.”
I’ve wasted so much time watching this fucking bullshit. Ive spent money on this shitty ass program. Getting our teeth kicked in by a fucking A10 team. Get the fuck out of here @CoachWhiteUGA. @Brooks_UGA I know you don’t give a fuck, but you should be so fucking ashamed of this.
JBR's Updated Locks & Eliminations - Mon 2/23.
-Teams to 🔒 with win this week: Kentucky, Saint Louis, NC State, Utah State, Clemson, UCF (SMU, Miami FL, Georgia, Texas A&M very close)
-Teams to be eliminated with loss this week: Baylor, Stanford
Yes, I am nervous about my Cincinnati elimination call. No, I don't walk back official calls. 18-13 finish and Bearcats should be dancing with at least 1 win in B12T. 17-14 probably not enough, unless they made the B12T title game (then maybe, pending other results).