UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
On Trey’s slump and Gators’ streak …
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hope you don’t mind if I change the subject to basketball today:
— Still one of two Georgia players averaging in double figures (13.2 points per game), freshman Trey Thompkins is in a serious slump: 7-for-32 from the field in the past three games. “He’s such a great offensive player,” coach Dennis Felton said, but in Saturday’s loss to Mississippi State “just about every 3-[pointer] that he missed was a real easy, good look except one.” Thompkins says he has had shooting slumps before, “and I know I’m going to have more. It’s no confidence shaker or [anything] like that. Just something I’ve got to get through.”
— The other Georgia player averaging in double figures — senior Terrance Woodbury [13.4 ppg] — has played all season with pain in both ankles. Felton said Woodbury got an injection in one ankle Monday and will get the same in the other on Thursday.
— As you’d expect amid a six-game losing streak, players are searching for an answer. “As far as what it is, we’re trying to figure it out,” Thompkins said. “We try to approach a different angle every day just to make sure we’re covering every aspect.”
— The players clearly are hoping the faster-paced, more aggressive offense shown in the second half against Mississippi State continues. Thompkins again: “It let us know that when we play together and just play basketball and not slow the game down and run a million sets, it helps us.”
— Yes, tonight’s game at Florida starts a daunting stretch of games: four of the next five on the road, where the Bulldogs have a 9-47 record — a .161 winning percentage — over the past five-plus years. Felton doesn’t want his team thinking in terms of a stretch of games. One at a time, you know. “I quite literally look at it that way,” Felton said. “I can’t tell you how many times during the season I couldn’t tell you who we play next after the upcoming game. It’s the honest truth. This is a really, really tough league; every game is tough regardless of where it is played.”
— Felton: “When you look at the teams that are struggling most in the league right now, they are the youngest teams — like us, Vanderbilt and Arkansas.” The key, he said, is “just staying optimistic and encouraged and enthusiastic about the next opportunity.”
— I asked Dustin Ware, the freshman point guard, the best advice he’s been offered by older teammates. He laughed. “The best advice? To not focus on the media or anything. Just go out and practice. Hate to say that to y’all, but that’s it.”
— You know all about Florida’s winning ways against Georgia in football: 16 wins in the past 19 games. Similar pattern developing in men’s basketball: The Gators have won 10 in a row over the Bulldogs since March 2004 — the past nine by double digits. Expect anything different tonight?
