GT (-8.5) vs. Wake Forest

[GTpdm]

Note to ACC: do not be the team that is scheduled for GT's home conference opener.

--"I'm Roy Williams, and I support this statement."
--"I'm Jim Larranaga, and I support this statement."​

—“I’m Danny Manning, and I support this statement.”​

 

[GTJason]

Are my ears ringing or did the refs just call another foul on Tech? Some of the calls were ridiculous

 

[TheSilasSonRising]

We should have, regardless of cost, brought BEVO in as honorary frisbee catcher .

 

[Jazzchaz]

Those who bet against Tech because of the points.....I hope you lost a ton! :-D

 

[AUFC]

Yeah they were definitely giving Wake the "you're losing by a decent amount, here's a free And 1" treatment towards the end. I was getting nervous at the under 8 because we completely stopped playing defense. We had a possession or 2 against the press+double team that was awful and I figured we'd lose. But we beat the press, and Jose was unguarded with the ball inside the arc, looked around for a while to pull it back out and decided to attack the basket and tossed up an alley oop to James Banks. Was great to see Georgia Tech ice this game by scoring easy buckets rather than running 30 second possessions.

 

[majorQ9]

#0 for Wake couldn't miss in the second half. Fortunately, Tech matched them with free throws down the stretch. Fans were not impressed with Danny Manning playing the foul game starting with over two minutes left in the half

 

[AUFC]

I will say: fans/students get an A- in the first half and a C in the second half. First half, everyone was really engaged and energy showed on the defensive side with some turnovers, buckets in transition, and some nice runs put together. In the second half, it was a lulled energy at times when I thought we needed to pick up our defense. You may laugh at me rating the crowd but it has a really big impact on these ACC games.

 

[MWBATL]

I will say: fans/students get an A- in the first half and a C in the second half. First half, everyone was really engaged and energy showed on the defensive side with some turnovers, buckets in transition, and some nice runs put together. In the second half, it was a lulled energy at times when I thought we needed to pick up our defense. You may laugh at me rating the crowd but it has a really big impact on these ACC games.

We won...that's all that matters.

 

[majorQ9]

I will say: fans/students get an A- in the first half and a C in the second half. First half, everyone was really engaged and energy showed on the defensive side with some turnovers, buckets in transition, and some nice runs put together. In the second half, it was a lulled energy at times when I thought we needed to pick up our defense. You may laugh at me rating the crowd but it has a really big impact on these ACC games.

Students need to be an A+ come Wednesday. Syllabus week, no rush yet. No excuses

 

[tsrich]

Banks and Cole played well together

 

[Deleted member 2897]

I am not going to curse, but holy hot damn and hotcakes do I sure want to. What a freaking fantastic game and what away to start ACC play!

 

[Peacone36]

Just to make everyone’s day even better

 

[ramblinwreck1378]

Just to make everyone’s day even better

And to make everyone’s day worse:

We lost to the team that just lost by 46. At home.

 

[Fatmike91]

#0 for Wake couldn't miss in the second half. Fortunately, Tech matched them with free throws down the stretch. Fans were not impressed with Danny Manning playing the foul game starting with over two minutes left in the half

Childress was ridiculous.

Fans may not have liked it, but Danny Manning was correct to put us on the line. Who knew we could hit 'em like that?

Probably our best overall effort of the season. Defense was consistently good (there's not much you can do about a guy like Childress), and our offensive ball movement looked a lot better than a few weeks ago.

/

 

[Peacone36]

And to make everyone’s day worse:

We lost to the team that just lost by 46. At home.

Why you gotta go and do that?

 

[jbix80]

And to make everyone’s day worse:

We lost to the team that just lost by 46. At home.

And to make our day better...
we only lost to the team that beat them by 46 by 13 points. Lol

 

[jeffgt14]

Hey we won! Good to at least be better than Wake. Looks like Devoe was shooting well.

 

[awbuzz]

It’s great to see 28-34 on free throws, including 20-22 once Wake started fouling down the stretch.

This was big! Started 8/12 then added 20/22 nice improvement.

 

[awbuzz]

And to make our day better...
we only lost to the team that beat them by 46 by 13 points. Lol

Just proof that the rules of math don't transfer to sports.

 

[jbix80]

Alvarado had 7 assists and 0 turnovers today! I think Devoe had 4a and 2t.