re: UGA Basketball Season Long Thread (19-15, 10-10) // Season Complete

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we should have beaten UF on the road

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the committee doesn't care what we "should have" done. We lost.

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We played USCe well at home

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and lost.

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The rest of the games other than the two against Kentucky are all very winnable games.

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you're missing the point. The point isn't that our remaining games are all against teams ranked in the top 20 and it's utterly hopeless. I know the stretch we face coming up isn't that difficult. The problem is that I have no confidence in our team beating hte teams we should beat up on, and hold virutally no hope that we'll sneak a few wins against teams that are better than us. It's not that we are mathematically eliminated, it's that in year 8 under fox we know exactly who and what we are and that's not very inspiring.

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If we win one of the games above we have a good shot at 20 wins.

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20 wins is irrelevant. Making the tourney is relevant, and we aren't going to with a garbage resume.

We've played 19 games so far. We have 12 more to go (that's 31 games). Let's say we win an SECT game then lose to get eliminated. Do you really think that winning 20 out of 33 games is impressive? That's a 60% clip for crying out loud. That'd be like the football coach winning 7 out of 12 games and still be going strong in year 8. It's madness.

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It is relevant because 9-3 gets us to 20 wins. Which was what I was responding to.

Stop moving the goal posts.

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which is irrelevant to making the tournament.

The committee doesnt' say "20 wins? They're in!" they look at who you beat and who you lost to.

Who are some of our notable wins? GT- RPI of 94. Ole miss- RPI of 46. Auburn- RPI of 70. Vandy- RPI of 58.

We only have 1 win against a top 50 ranked RPI team and they could fall out with their next loss. Our whole resume up to this point is essentially built on losing close to good teams. That won't cut it. We could have friggin 23 or 24 wins and it still wouldn't matter if none of them are even noteworthy.

I originally responded to someone else then you picked up the convo, things all ran together.

I reread and see that you weren't ever talking about making the tourney but only about getting to 20 wins, so my apologies there. I still don't believe we have much of a shot to do so.

And to piggyback off of what Barstool is saying, I am probably alone in this, if we get 22 wins or more total I think we are in the tourney.

That is including more total losses. 3 of which would likely be to Kentucky.

We have improved our half court offensive efficiency, we have improved at rebounding for the most part, and we are overall a better team defensively.

We have not improved at our perimeter defense and our perimeter shooting is streaky at best.

I said it before the game but A&M was not a great matchup for us. Mission State and Arkansas are the games I worry most about.

FWIW, we are still 39th in RPI.

Surprisingly we handled that really well against Florida. However your right, that's not something we have handled very well in the past. The good thing about the A&M press is they don't have a choice but to address that issue because it was so glaring.

I was referring to their size and the fact that we love to play inside the 3 point line. They make the passing lanes smaller, more contested shots, it's harder to rebound, and they can block shots due to their length. We actually handleded all of that really well.

their length hurt us a lot when they trapped us in that fricking corner.

They should press more often

I should have great tickets for the game Saturday. Will try to get an ITDawg sign on TV.