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<blockquote data-quote="McCamish Maniacs" data-source="post: 84360" data-attributes="member: 1455"><p><strong>How big is this year for you?</strong></p><p>"Where we are at in our program, everybody has been brought in by us. I've been through this process before, and this is where we started kicking it in a little bit at the University of Dayton, where we won 97 games over the next four years when we had all our players. Those guys that stuck around for us I owe a lot to. Daniel Miller and Kam (Holsey) and so forth, and we brought in Trae, and Jason Morris due to injury was never really able to get to where he wanted to or where we needed him to. Everybody here now has come in knowing what we have to do for me and for our staff for what culture we want to make at Georgia Tech. The first class being juniors and only two seniors on the team, we have a relatively young tram. With that comes the excitement of coaching your guys and getting them out there and starting to build and create the identity of this program.</p><p></p><p><strong>On how the pre-season prep changes with Georgia as the opener</strong></p><p>"Not really. Especially with new bodies who we have, to make sure understand what we're trying to do. It's different if you have everybody coming back. This year it's more than last. Two years ago when we opened it up, we played a pretty good Tulane team. Your preparation during that time will change a little bit, maybe the last week. We are only concentrating on Georgia Tech and what we need to do to improve, and we have a good scrimmage and exhibition game set up. We will use those as an evaluation tool. We will have a pretty good feel of where we are at going into that Georgia game."</p><p></p><p><strong>On Tech's summer</strong></p><p>"We had another great summer in terms of school-wise. A disciplined and committed approach usually covers most aspects of your life. The work the guys put in, the chemistry piece, and the leadership piece, and the price never decreases. If you do the same work you can never expect to move forward, you've got to pay more and more and more. That's the nature of athletics and I think our guys understood that and did a great job of attacking that."</p><p></p><p><strong>On Marcus Georges-Hunt as the leader of the team?</strong></p><p>"I certainly hope so, and that will be one of his challenges heading into this year. Leadership is always a big question and debate. Can guys turn into leaders, are they born that way? It doesn't really show until the season starts and adversity hits. That's when you need the leadership, that's when you need the direction, that's when you need one voice in the locker room making sure everybody is on the same page and that is one of Marcus's main jobs this year, no question about it."</p><p></p><p><strong>No star guy on the team? Thoughts on being an underdog?</strong></p><p>"Marcus is the seventh leading returning scorer in the ACC in total career points. I'd put him in a pretty high category. Our guys understand for us to be successful we need to play great team basketball. The last three champions in our league - Virginia, Miami, Florida State - on those three teams there were maybe three draft picks combined so it is usually the best team that is the most successful. Our guys understand that and for us to do the things we want to do we have to have a total commitment to the team, total unselfishness on defense and offense. We have some pretty good pieces and our guys understand for us to be successful those pieces have to fit together well but I don't think that is different than just about anybody."</p><p></p><p><strong>Goal for the team this season?</strong></p><p>"This is our team now. These guys were brought in by us so there is an excitement that comes with that. With that we need to take another step. We won five more games in year two than in year one. I thought there was a chance last year for us to accelerate the process, not skip a step but go through the third step faster than I originally anticipated. Unfortunately do to a number of different things we weren't able to do that. If some of those adverse situations occur - I think four key players missed 65 games last year - so as a program we need to have enough depth to fight through that and to get through those situations, and now I think we do."</p><p></p><p><strong>Who do you want to see step up on offense in key situations?</strong></p><p>"Marcus, Trae hit a lot of big shots last year. But in terms of who we were going to, most of the time we were going to Marcus I don't think anybody didn't know that. Even the opponent knew that we were going to get him the ball and put our trust in him to either make a play for himself or for someone else. But I think with Travis, Josh, and Corey with the amount of minutes he was able to play last year, Tadric, we have some guards on the court that can make plays for other people, make the game easier for other people and I think that is one of our big keys, are we moving the ball, are we creating shots for other guys, I think that was one area that last year we made a slight improvement on but weren't able to sustain it in critical situations where we were able to create an easy basket for someone else and I think that's a big key for us, sometimes that's getting the ball in the post where we are one-on-one in the post, sometimes that's getting the ball in the post creating a double team and kicking it out. I think our ability to throw the ball in and have those guys be very aggressive to make plays is going to be a key for us and our guard play in terms of creating easy baskets and open shots for other people is going be key."</p><p></p><p><strong>Are you expecting that Ben Lammers will be cleared?</strong></p><p>"Yeah he is more or less cleared now. He is almost in the same situation as Travis where he has been cleared for contact and has practiced but we are limiting some of the reps right now. Our hope is to do that, not set in stone, but the game plan for the first couple weeks is to continue that, the next two weeks to make that 80-90 percent, and then the two weeks heading into the start of the season full going, of course that always depends on how Ben's leg and Travis's knee respond to the workload that they are going to do over the next six weeks."</p><p></p><p><strong>How did the new uniforms with Buzz watermark on the back happen, and what are your thoughts about it?</strong></p><p>The watermark on the back came about because we showed it to Marcus, Robert Sampson, and Chris, and when we showed them a design of it they thought it was pretty cool. When it comes to uniforms it is all about what the guys like to a certain extent, and they need to look sharp, and I think those uniforms look sharp."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McCamish Maniacs, post: 84360, member: 1455"] [B]How big is this year for you?[/B] "Where we are at in our program, everybody has been brought in by us. I've been through this process before, and this is where we started kicking it in a little bit at the University of Dayton, where we won 97 games over the next four years when we had all our players. Those guys that stuck around for us I owe a lot to. Daniel Miller and Kam (Holsey) and so forth, and we brought in Trae, and Jason Morris due to injury was never really able to get to where he wanted to or where we needed him to. Everybody here now has come in knowing what we have to do for me and for our staff for what culture we want to make at Georgia Tech. The first class being juniors and only two seniors on the team, we have a relatively young tram. With that comes the excitement of coaching your guys and getting them out there and starting to build and create the identity of this program. [B]On how the pre-season prep changes with Georgia as the opener[/B] "Not really. Especially with new bodies who we have, to make sure understand what we're trying to do. It's different if you have everybody coming back. This year it's more than last. Two years ago when we opened it up, we played a pretty good Tulane team. Your preparation during that time will change a little bit, maybe the last week. We are only concentrating on Georgia Tech and what we need to do to improve, and we have a good scrimmage and exhibition game set up. We will use those as an evaluation tool. We will have a pretty good feel of where we are at going into that Georgia game." [B]On Tech's summer[/B] "We had another great summer in terms of school-wise. A disciplined and committed approach usually covers most aspects of your life. The work the guys put in, the chemistry piece, and the leadership piece, and the price never decreases. If you do the same work you can never expect to move forward, you've got to pay more and more and more. That's the nature of athletics and I think our guys understood that and did a great job of attacking that." [B]On Marcus Georges-Hunt as the leader of the team?[/B] "I certainly hope so, and that will be one of his challenges heading into this year. Leadership is always a big question and debate. Can guys turn into leaders, are they born that way? It doesn't really show until the season starts and adversity hits. That's when you need the leadership, that's when you need the direction, that's when you need one voice in the locker room making sure everybody is on the same page and that is one of Marcus's main jobs this year, no question about it." [B]No star guy on the team? Thoughts on being an underdog?[/B] "Marcus is the seventh leading returning scorer in the ACC in total career points. I'd put him in a pretty high category. Our guys understand for us to be successful we need to play great team basketball. The last three champions in our league - Virginia, Miami, Florida State - on those three teams there were maybe three draft picks combined so it is usually the best team that is the most successful. Our guys understand that and for us to do the things we want to do we have to have a total commitment to the team, total unselfishness on defense and offense. We have some pretty good pieces and our guys understand for us to be successful those pieces have to fit together well but I don't think that is different than just about anybody." [B]Goal for the team this season?[/B] "This is our team now. These guys were brought in by us so there is an excitement that comes with that. With that we need to take another step. We won five more games in year two than in year one. I thought there was a chance last year for us to accelerate the process, not skip a step but go through the third step faster than I originally anticipated. Unfortunately do to a number of different things we weren't able to do that. If some of those adverse situations occur - I think four key players missed 65 games last year - so as a program we need to have enough depth to fight through that and to get through those situations, and now I think we do." [B]Who do you want to see step up on offense in key situations?[/B] "Marcus, Trae hit a lot of big shots last year. But in terms of who we were going to, most of the time we were going to Marcus I don't think anybody didn't know that. Even the opponent knew that we were going to get him the ball and put our trust in him to either make a play for himself or for someone else. But I think with Travis, Josh, and Corey with the amount of minutes he was able to play last year, Tadric, we have some guards on the court that can make plays for other people, make the game easier for other people and I think that is one of our big keys, are we moving the ball, are we creating shots for other guys, I think that was one area that last year we made a slight improvement on but weren't able to sustain it in critical situations where we were able to create an easy basket for someone else and I think that's a big key for us, sometimes that's getting the ball in the post where we are one-on-one in the post, sometimes that's getting the ball in the post creating a double team and kicking it out. I think our ability to throw the ball in and have those guys be very aggressive to make plays is going to be a key for us and our guard play in terms of creating easy baskets and open shots for other people is going be key." [B]Are you expecting that Ben Lammers will be cleared?[/B] "Yeah he is more or less cleared now. He is almost in the same situation as Travis where he has been cleared for contact and has practiced but we are limiting some of the reps right now. Our hope is to do that, not set in stone, but the game plan for the first couple weeks is to continue that, the next two weeks to make that 80-90 percent, and then the two weeks heading into the start of the season full going, of course that always depends on how Ben's leg and Travis's knee respond to the workload that they are going to do over the next six weeks." [B]How did the new uniforms with Buzz watermark on the back happen, and what are your thoughts about it?[/B] The watermark on the back came about because we showed it to Marcus, Robert Sampson, and Chris, and when we showed them a design of it they thought it was pretty cool. When it comes to uniforms it is all about what the guys like to a certain extent, and they need to look sharp, and I think those uniforms look sharp." [/QUOTE]
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