Mike White, Georgia basketball’s third-year coach, discovered the optimistic to remove from a lopsided loss at Alabama Saturday regardless of the Bulldogs having a tough recreation capturing.
He additionally didn’t wish to lose sight that it was one other recreation in opposition to one of many nation’s high groups however is aware of the Bulldogs can’t let the losses proceed to pile up.
Georgia has dropped 5 of its final six video games heading into Wednesday evening’s house recreation in opposition to LSU.
“This league is simply totally different,” White stated. “It’s considerably totally different than it’s ever been. First quarter-hour of the sport, I felt actually good about our effort, our connectivity defensively, our consideration to element defensively. …There’s some areas we bought a little bit bit higher the place we competed in opposition to a very good workforce. We’ll hold all this in perspective, however we bought to win some video games. We’ve bought to to make some pictures.”
Georgia (15-7, 3-6 SEC) had simply six turnovers, however struggled from the free throw line and making 3-pointers within the 90-69 loss to the Crimson Tide.
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The Bulldogs rank eleventh within the SEC in free throw capturing in SEC video games at 70.4% and are final in 3-point share at 26.6% and 3-pointers per recreation at 5.1.
White deliberate to emphasise capturing extra in apply forward of the sport with LSU (12-9, 1-7).
“The worry is should you simply spend a ton of time, capturing, capturing, capturing, are you going too lengthy?” White stated. “Are you giving your self the very best probability within the subsequent one? Are you spending as a lot time as you have been on rebounding and defending and executing press assault and issues like that? We’ve bought to spend extra time capturing. We do.”
Georgia basketball vs. LSU is out there to observe on the SEC Community. If you do not have that and also you wish to observe alongside dwell, you’ll be able to go to the Georgia Athletics web site and tune in to their game audio radiocast.
The Georgia vs LSU basketball recreation suggestions off at 9 p.m. from Stegeman Coliseum in Athens. That is recreation 10 of the Bulldogs’ SEC schedule. The Bulldogs have misplaced 5 of their final six together with Saturday at Alabama.
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