Georgia Tech will glance to shore up its protection on Tuesday when it performs the second one leg of the Peach State Vintage towards Texas Southern in Atlanta.
The Yellow Jackets (1-1) allowed North Florida to shoot a scorching 53.6 p.c from the ground en path to a 105-93 setback to the Ospreys on Sunday.
The competition marked the primary time Georgia Tech surrendered 100 issues in a sport since a four-overtime loss to Georgia State, 123-120, within the 2020-21 season opener.
“It is a bizarre sport from the viewpoint of we scored the ball, however we simply could not forestall them in any respect,” Yellow Jackets head trainer Damon Stoudamire stated. “We gotta return to the planning stage. I am not disillusioned in any way. It is nonetheless early. We simply were given some issues we wish to cope with. I am bent off form by way of shedding, I am mad about shedding, however we will get previous this and we gotta get in a position for the following sport.”
Georgia Tech’s Luke O’Brien downplayed his 15-point, eight-rebound efficiency and as a substitute instructed newshounds that he felt his workforce’s protection used to be “lovely pathetic.”
Baye Ndongo recorded his 7th profession double-double for the Yellow Jackets, posting workforce highs in issues (20) and rebounds (10) on Sunday.
Javian McCollum adopted up his 18-point effort in Georgia Tech’s 85-62 victory over West Georgia on Wednesday with 14 extra vs. North Florida.
Texas Southern (1-2) additionally used to be slightly beneficiant in its closing sport, a 92-64 setback to Georgia on Sunday in a Peach State Vintage contest in Athens, Ga.
Kenny Hunter scored 16 issues on 8-of-12 capturing from the ground for Texas Southern, and Kavion McClain added 13 whilst making 6 of 8 photographs. Alternatively, the remainder of the Tigers blended to move 10-for-45 (22.2 p.c) from the sector.
What is worse, all of the workforce made simply 1 of nineteen makes an attempt from 3-point vary and used to be outrebounded by way of a 53-23 margin.
In spite of the Tigers’ struggles with their capturing, Georgia Bulldogs trainer Mike White used to be fast to credit score their aggressiveness on protection.
“Texas Southern’s in reality bodily, very, very handsy, tipped a large number of balls,” White stated. “They had been simply tremendous lively. Their wallops had been in reality bodily, and we drew a large number of touch.”
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