The Pembroke Postgame Report.

#28
#28
It was a complete lack of focus on defense, rotation was awful, but lets give Georgia credit. They hit their shots, there were a lot of uncontested dunks but they still hit their outside shots and hit their free throws.

Bobby Maze has reverted back to Bobby Maze, J.P. makes silly choices when he has the ball, Kenny Hall showed his youth, as expected from time to time. Scotty is more assertive and that will be key the rest of the year, seeing as how Wayne seems to get into to foul trouble early on, leaving us down our best player.

Overall a piss-poor performance.
 
#30
#30
One of those nights was coming sooner or later after the last three weeks. Forget about it and move on. Beat Vandy.
 
#32
#32
I can't wait til Kenny Hall is a junior. He's going to be a stud. He has that competitive mentality and he's a smart basketball player. Of course he's going to make mistakes as a freshman, but at least he's getting exposure on the court with some quality minutes.

Our press just isn't doing much. I think this was the first game since the arrests that Pearl tried to make the press a part of his game plan and it really back fired. UGA got a lot of good looks off of it.

I'm all for giving people a chance, but come on. Steve Pearl is a liability out there. There is no way he should be taking Renaldo's minutes.

We'll be fine. In a 30+ game season, it's hard to bring your best every night, especially when you're the target in every game.
 
#33
#33
There were a couple players who played like they lacked testicles. Georgia's big-men dominated like I haven't seen in a while.
 
#34
#34
hatvol96 said:
Yeah, the fact Wayne does that three or four times a season is a mere coincidence.
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Wayne's an actor, but he wasn't acting on that play. Replay clearly showed his knee bent back - hurts like hell and is pretty scary - hopefully it's nothing serious.
 
#36
#36
TennNC said:
Wayne's an actor, but he wasn't acting on that play. Replay clearly showed his knee bent back - hurts like hell and is pretty scary - hopefully it's nothing serious.
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Considering he was out for all of about two minutes of game time, UT needs a new training staff is it is remotely serious.
 
#37
#37
hatvol96 said:
1. Burn the tape and move on with the season. Chalk it up as one of those nights.
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Truth.

Hat, what did you think of Pearl pressing so much more after we were down early? Seems he abandoned his game plan early, and I'm not sure the press did anything positive for us. I don't want this team thinking they can't beat a Georgia team in a halfcourt game.
 
#38
#38
hatvol96 said:
Considering he was out for all of about two minutes of game time, UT needs a new training staff is it is remotely serious.
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I'd have the same perspective if I hadn't just done the same thing last week in a pickup game - I thought I was completely screwed at first - hurt like hell and felt like my leg was going to fall off from the knee down; then about 5 minutes later it felt okay. Was very strange.

I bet it's sore the next few days for Wayne, and he should not take it lightly or it could get much worse.
 
#39
#39
TennNC said:
Truth.

Hat, what did you think of Pearl pressing so much more after we were down early? Seems he abandoned his game plan early, and I'm not sure the press did anything positive for us. I don't want this team thinking they can't beat a Georgia team in a halfcourt game.
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A good portion of the "pressing" they did was denying the first pass, then dropping back. I think Pearl was just looking for anything that might create a spark. They were getting their asses handed to them from the start.
 
#40
#40
hatvol96 said:
A good portion of the "pressing" they did was denying the first pass, then dropping back. I think Pearl was just looking for anything that might create a spark. They were getting their asses handed to them from the start.
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we got out of position a couple of times b/c of it, but oh well.

btw, why didn't he try putting Bone on Leslie? Bone's our best on-ball defender IMO.
 
#41
#41
TennNC said:
we got out of position a couple of times b/c of it, but oh well.

btw, why didn't he try putting Bone on Leslie? Bone's our best on-ball defender IMO.
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Leslie's too athletic for Bone. As bad as our help defense was, you couldn't put a guy a step slow on Leslie. He'd have had about 10 dunks.
 
#42
#42
the issue is that we've seen today's effort before... it was THE issue before the KU game... and its been growing in duration every game since the KU game. this was the first game since the KU game where the duration of the piss-poor effort was 40 minutes long.
 
#43
#43
did anyone else hear the color analyst on FSN say that bobby maze was a lock down defender? LOL! i spewed soda out of my nose when he said it the 2nd time.
 
#44
#44
hatvol96 said:
Leslie's too athletic for Bone. As bad as our help defense was, you couldn't put a guy a step slow on Leslie. He'd have had about 10 dunks.
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you think bone's slower than prince on defense? that's who I saw on him most of the game.
 
#47
#47
RW played awful tonight. The reason Pearl got so many minutes is because he is the only one that was giving 100%. Pearl isn't the answer but if I were Bruce I wouldn't leave RW in there with the effort he was giving.
 
#48
#48
TennNC said:
i still don't see how him being shorter makes him slower, but anyway.
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Simple. JP can play a step, step and a half off his guy and still challenge shots. That means he's got a buffer the driver has to make up to beat him to the basket. Bone has to play right up on his guy. Thus, he's essentially a step, step and a half slower than Prince before he ever gets started.
 
#49
#49
hatvol96 said:
Simple. JP can play a step, step and a half off his guy and still challenge shots. That means he's got a buffer the driver has to make up to beat him to the basket. Bone has to play right up on his guy. Thus, he's essentially a step, step and a half slower than Prince before he ever gets started.
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I don't buy that for two reasons: 1) it assumes JP putting up a late hand on a guy like that is remotely effective. And more important, 2) it assumes that playing D with a buffer gives the defender an advantage. It gives the ball handler more space to work with, which either provides him a cleaner look on a jumper or more room to put on a move and get the defender off balance to drive to the basket. If Bone, who is quicker than JP, can guard his man close and keep him in front, it doesn't matter if he tries to get off a shot over him - it won't be a good, clean look - that's the most difficult D to play against if you're creating on your own, and I'd rather take that than a guy being able to challenge a shot late.
 
#50
#50
TennNC said:
I don't buy that for two reasons: 1) it assumes JP putting up a late hand on a guy like that is remotely effective. And more important, 2) it assumes that playing D with a buffer gives the defender an advantage. It gives the ball handler more space to work with, which either provides him a cleaner look on a jumper or more room to put on a move and get the defender off balance to drive to the basket. If Bone, who is quicker than JP, can guard his man close and keep him in front, it doesn't matter if he tries to get off a shot over him - it won't be a good, clean look - that's the most difficult D to play against if you're creating on your own, and I'd rather take that than a guy being able to challenge a shot late.
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A step isn't substantial room in that situation and Bone isn't quick.
 
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