Some thoughts.....

*I don't care if GA Tech is down...we needed this "W"
*Foul shooting can't be this bad?? Get the boys with Tommy Freeman for an hour and let him straighten it out.
*Hilight of night was Campbell missing two technicals and then hitting a 3 ball 5 seconds later #onions
*We can't win too many of these type of games with our bench not hitting the scoring column. Carter and Taylor overmatched offensively, but they played strong defense.
*When Big Tone leaves, who is going to provide points in paint next year? But first, enjoy this year.

Georgia Tech has some strengths. Good size and athleticism. That kept them in the game. For example, when they chased down Jordy late and forced a steal from behind. Then their press forced a turnover. And they got some rebounds even when we had pretty good position. I realize the consensus is that they will finish near the cellar in the ACC, but I wouldn't be too surprised if they end up finishing a little higher than that. I think they'll improve over the course of the season.

It's great that the freshmen are holding their own defensively. I think they are still adjusting to the speed of the game and opponents athleticism, and as they do that, they'll contribute more scoring. Right now, they either seem to be a half step slow in responding to situations on the floor, or else they are forcing things. I guarantee they will find their groove, sooner rather than later.

Free throws are a head shaker. That's two out of three games being inept there. At least they hit some
important ones at crunch time. The numbers on the back of the baseball cards say this will dramatically improve. Gotta get big Doug on track there, because I think he will be there a lot this season.

If an opposition gameplan says Taylor gets fouled every touch then that's going to open up Tony for a lot of highlight reel stuff as they have to play him soft due to foul trouble.

I am all for playing inexperienced power conference teams that lost 15 games the previous season and have a first-year head coach. Line'em up.

Playing Duke, Michigan State and Kansas? Not so much.

According to KenPom they have never been on the court at the same time.

Gotcha +1 ^

Before yesterday Taylor was 21-29 (.724) for his college career. I wonder if that wrist brace on his left hand might have been throwing off his motion a bit. He wasn't even close last night though.

No return games. It's not going to happen. We still need to play at least three of these on the road every year.

We do have Purdue coming into the convo as a return for football.

Just a shame that we blew a chance for that game to really mean something by not winning at least 2 of these games: Marshall, WKU and Iona.