A few thoughts...
Georgia surprised me a little. Woodbury and Ware were both knocking down several outside shots each, and we were defending them OK for the most part. The final shooting stats are going to be off because of Georgia's eight or nine desperation 3's at the end that they made only one of, but Georgia shot pretty well, I thought (40% from three is the final number, so yeah).
I think Negedu would have seen more action, but Georgia's post players aren't a great matchup for him. At least that's my guess as to why Williams continued to get more time. I think Georgia has four guys who are Chism's weight or bigger, and none of them are useless, though none are as good as Chism either (yet). Tyler was having some problems defending in the post, too, but he did a pretty good job overall.
The referees sucked, IMO. They called three or so fouls on our guys who were going for loose balls, where no one has a right to the ball. Each time it seemed like a fair attempt to me, and it wasn't even always clear that our guys initiated contact. I think two of those were Chism and Prince's fourth fouls (or third before a quick fourth). Also, BW's fourth was a cheapo 40 feet from the basket on Swansea. Woodbury was also drawing touch fouls a lot, and he shoots high 80's from the line. That said, the fouls ended up about even, but they fouled us some at the end to catch up, and we had about 15 more shot attempts than them.
Also, on the opening tip, it looked like neither team knew which way they were going on offense. I don't ever remember seeing that in a college game (not that I've watched that many outside of Tennessee's), so I don't have a hard time thinking the refs screwed that up, too. Maybe it's possible that Chism faked everyone out, but if it was a normal tipoff, then wouldn't someone have figured it out? Ended up as a backcourt violation for us. The coaches seemed to be in the right position for the first half (on the defensive end), so the teams were going in the right directions, but maybe the refs lined the players up backwards for the tip or something. Very odd.
Tyler with 24 points, 11 boards, and 6 assists. I think it's more impressive than his triple double given the opponent and situation, and his triple double game was 12-10-10, a bit light on the points. He played 34 minutes, too, all after being "doubtful" (smokescreen?).
Weezy was limited due to the 4 fouls, but he still had an OK 12 and 7. Prince hit some nice layups after his disaster a couple days ago. Maze was 2 of 3 from 3. Tatum was 4 of 5 from inside the three point arc (and 1-10 from outside it). I think Negedu got credit for a block on a shot that was coming down and under the rim, 9 feet in the air maybe. Maybe he had another legit block that I missed, though, and that was his "third".
Georgia surprised me a little. Woodbury and Ware were both knocking down several outside shots each, and we were defending them OK for the most part. The final shooting stats are going to be off because of Georgia's eight or nine desperation 3's at the end that they made only one of, but Georgia shot pretty well, I thought (40% from three is the final number, so yeah).
I think Negedu would have seen more action, but Georgia's post players aren't a great matchup for him. At least that's my guess as to why Williams continued to get more time. I think Georgia has four guys who are Chism's weight or bigger, and none of them are useless, though none are as good as Chism either (yet). Tyler was having some problems defending in the post, too, but he did a pretty good job overall.
The referees sucked, IMO. They called three or so fouls on our guys who were going for loose balls, where no one has a right to the ball. Each time it seemed like a fair attempt to me, and it wasn't even always clear that our guys initiated contact. I think two of those were Chism and Prince's fourth fouls (or third before a quick fourth). Also, BW's fourth was a cheapo 40 feet from the basket on Swansea. Woodbury was also drawing touch fouls a lot, and he shoots high 80's from the line. That said, the fouls ended up about even, but they fouled us some at the end to catch up, and we had about 15 more shot attempts than them.
Also, on the opening tip, it looked like neither team knew which way they were going on offense. I don't ever remember seeing that in a college game (not that I've watched that many outside of Tennessee's), so I don't have a hard time thinking the refs screwed that up, too. Maybe it's possible that Chism faked everyone out, but if it was a normal tipoff, then wouldn't someone have figured it out? Ended up as a backcourt violation for us. The coaches seemed to be in the right position for the first half (on the defensive end), so the teams were going in the right directions, but maybe the refs lined the players up backwards for the tip or something. Very odd.
Tyler with 24 points, 11 boards, and 6 assists. I think it's more impressive than his triple double given the opponent and situation, and his triple double game was 12-10-10, a bit light on the points. He played 34 minutes, too, all after being "doubtful" (smokescreen?).
Weezy was limited due to the 4 fouls, but he still had an OK 12 and 7. Prince hit some nice layups after his disaster a couple days ago. Maze was 2 of 3 from 3. Tatum was 4 of 5 from inside the three point arc (and 1-10 from outside it). I think Negedu got credit for a block on a shot that was coming down and under the rim, 9 feet in the air maybe. Maybe he had another legit block that I missed, though, and that was his "third".
