(12-22-2009 07:40 PM)baller8 Wrote: (12-22-2009 07:34 PM)baller8 Wrote: (12-22-2009 05:59 PM)KennesawBasketball Wrote: I wasn't able to listen to much of the game, but it sounds like their size advantage was the difference. That is pretty much what we expected. I also think that we can compete with anyone in the ASun, but by no means expect us to enter the tournament as the number 1 seed. My hope is simply that we are playing our best basketball at the end of the year. If we are doing that then we have a legitimate chance to win the tournament. That is really all we can hope for in our first year.
Continue to improve...that is the mantra. We won't see it every game, but hopefully over the course of the season we will be able to see a trend of improvement.
What is our most glaring weakness---
We have good guard play but we don't have anyone other than Ladaris that wants to rebound. Our other big men don't box out. Its not how high you can jump but its the fundamentals of boxing out. If we don't improve in this area it will be a long season. We get solid play from our perimenter players but we need someone to step up and try to claim every rebound
Kennesaw State Head Coach Tony Ingle
"The bottom line is that we couldn't make shots. You need to make a shot along the way to keep your confidence up, and not from an individual standpoint, but from a team standpoint. Everybody was waiting for someone else to make a shot, and consequently, no one could. Georgia Tech played good defense, but we had some (good) looks. And we had some shots we should have made. And right before halftime they built on the lead a little bit, but we were in the game. And (we) could have made it even more interesting if we had made some shots early. We came out in the second half and played okay. We tried to dictate tempo as much as we could. Our strategy was to stay as close as we can as long as we can, make a good showing and hustle and execute.
"They're a good basketball team, too. We finished hustling, scrapping and playing all the way to the buzzer.
"The frustration, from my standpoint, is knowing how hard our guys work and how hard they want it. They want to make those shots. They want to play close. Obviously, you want them to win. That goes without saying.
"I saw some things in my players that we got to get worked out after we get back from Christmas.
"This is a great team to play before the Christmas break. It gives us a good test. But we will not play a team this good until we get to the NCAA tournament. We've got to work hard and hopefully play a team like this in the NCAA tournament. And to play better (than today) when that happens."