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TECH HOSTS LEMOYNE IN BASKETBALL EXHIBITION Dolphins visit for Jackets’ last tuneup before season begins ATLANTA – Looking to make strides defensively, Georgia Tech’s basketball team will play its only exhibition game against LeMoyne College Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Tickets for the game are $5 and can be purchased at the gates beginning at 6 p.m. Friday. Georgia Tech also has season tickets still available by going to Tech’s official website, http://www.ramblinwreck.com/tickets. The Dolphins, coached by Steve Evans in his ninth season, went 15-14 overall last season and 12-10 in the NCAA Division II Northeast-10 Conference. LeMoyne is visiting Tech for the second time to play an exhibition game, with the Yellow Jackets taking a 103-66 win in 2004. Tech, coached by Paul Hewitt in his ninth season, is looking to improve upon a 15-17 record from last season. Hewitt welcomes back two starters and nine letterwinners from a team that went 7-9 and tied for seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Yellow Jackets have been picked to finish eighth this year. “Our guys are ready to see somebody different,” said Hewitt. “The first game of the year is always an exciting time, but we’ve got more work to do to get ready. I can think of a laundry list of things we have to do, and we’ll get to them as time goes on. We need better overall consistency defensively – our effort level, our talking on defense. It’s been good at times. To be consistently good defensively, you’ve got to talk.” Maurice “Moe” Miller, a 6-2 sophomore from Memphis, Tenn., is back at the point guard position after starting 19 games as a freshman and averaging 8.1 points and 3.3 assists per game. He is Tech’s first returning point guard since Jarrett Jack’s junior year of 2004-05. “It’s big for the team,” said Hewitt, “but it’s also big for a guy like (freshman) Iman Shumpert to play with a guy who has been through a season and can share some experiences with him. The other guys know he’s a gamer, and when game time comes around, he asserts himself.” Shumpert, a 6-5 McDonald’s All-American from Oak Park, Ill., can play both the point and off-guard positions and is a quality shooter. Also returning on the perimeter are 6-3 senior Lewis Clinch, a high-scoring guard from Cordele, Ga., who is looking to rebound from a difficult junior year (9.0 points per game, 39.8 percent on field goals), and 6-5 sophomore Lance Storrs, a sharp-shooting guard who played limited minutes last year. For his part, Clinch has made an effort to become a better leader and has played some point guard in practice to help enhance his game. “It gives him a chance to improve his ball-handling and understand the offense better,” said Hewitt. In addition to losing Matt Causey, Anthony Morrow and Jeremis Smith to graduation, Georgia Tech has lost wing man D’Andre Bell for the season due to spinal stenosis, which was diagnosed two weeks ago. The 6-6 senior from Pacific Palisades, Calif., was a force on the defensive end of the floor for Tech last season and averaged 6.6 points per game. Tech is deep along the front line with 6-8 junior Zachery Peacock, 6-9 sophomore Gani Lawal and 6-9 senior Alade Aminu returning along with 7-0 sophomore Brad Sheehan. Adding depth to the post is 6-9 senior Bassirou Dieng, a graduate student who transferred from St. Francis, Pa. “This is a team with good inside presence,” said Hewitt. “I think the strength of our team is the depth inside. They run well and score well around the basket.” Peacock, from Miami, Fla., will be asked to play minutes at small forward to make up for the loss of Bell. Peacock finished out last season with five straight double-figure scoring games and averaged 9.9 points and 3.9 rebounds per game. Lawal, from Norcross, Ga., cracked the starting lineup in December last year, averaged 7.2 points and 3.5 rebounds per game and led the team in field goal percentage (57.0 pct.). Aminu, from Stone Mountain, Ga., began the year in the starting lineup but was inconsistent, finishing the year as Tech’s second-leading rebounder (4.1 per game) while averaging 6.0 points. He shot 54.4 percent from the floor. Sheehan, from Latham, N.Y., played just 12 games last year, but has added weight and strength and is expected to be a factor. Dieng, from Dakar, Senegal, averaged 10.7 points and 6.6 rebounds last year at St. Francis. > Georgia Tech has added another walk-on to its roster, 6-5 forward Sam Shew of Decatur, Ga. Shew, a sophomore, played basketball at Decatur High School for former Georgia State coach Carter Wilson. He tried out for Tech’s team last fall and did not make the team, and participated in a tryout again this year from which the Yellow Jackets’ coaches took no one. But when senior D’Andre Bell was lost for the season, and freshman walk-on Derek Craig suffered a concussion in practice last week, coaches called Shew back and asked him to join practice. > The addition of Shew gives Tech five walk-ons in the program. Senior Gary Cage of Atlanta and junior Ty Anderson of Watkinsville, Ga., are in their third seasons, while freshmen Craig and Nick Foreman of Bellaire, Texas joined the team this season. > With the loss of seniors Matt Causey, Ra’Sean Dickey, Anthony Morrow and Jeremis Smith, as well as the injury to Bell, and with the addition of freshman Iman Shumpert, Georgia Tech has nine healthy scholarship players on its roster for 2008-09. > After playing just 13 home games last season, the fewest in years, Tech has 17 scheduled this year. Also, Tech will not play in a holiday tournament for the first time in three years. Instead, the Jackets are taking a trip to the West Coast the weekend before Christmas to play Southern California and Pepperdine. > Tech has made five post-season appearances in the last eight years, four in the NCAA (including one Final Four) and one NIT (to the third round). Among the 73 schools in the current six BCS conferences, only 28 have been to the NCAA more than Tech in the last eight years. Nine others have been exactly four times, putting Tech in the upper half of the total group. > Tech is beginning its 93rd season of men’s basketball. The Yellow Jackets have an all-time record of 1,204-1,054, dating back to Feb. 17, 1906. Tech finished its eighth season under head coach Paul Hewitt (142-112).
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Ugag sucks Letterman 
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I heard the team did not look so hot in the exhibition game. Let's hope we were just rusty and need time for the new guys to gel. I remember quite a few heart-breaking 1 and 2-point losses last year. Hopefully this year those games will fall our way!
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we must beat uga Letterman 
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Ugag sucks wrote: I heard the team did not look so hot in the exhibition game. Let's hope we were just rusty and need time for the new guys to gel. They have a LONG way to go, that Nick Foreman walk on may be a pleasant surprise.
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GT_FOX Letterman 
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Yeah they didn't look fantastic, but they began to play much better in the second half. I was happy to see some of the progression Sheehan has made, he still has work to do but I think he will be a big part of this team winning as he improves and develops and give lawal the breathers he will need down the road. Foreman was a pleasant surprise. He was the only one that looked any good actually shooting the rock. Miller seemed a bit off to me, although we managed the game better while he was in. Both Aminu and Lawal had tons of points in the paint off of dunks on a fairly small dolphin team and each had a double double. It was nice to get a look at Shumpert although our guard play offensively speaking wasn't really there. The four post players scored 65 of our 85 points. The team moved the ball well at times but really in the first half they looked out of sorts. we threw the ball away a ton, on fast breaks and while running the half-court offense. I can't decide whether the team just under performed because of who we were playing or if they really have that much work to do to get ready for ACC play. At this point, 8th in the ACC looks pretty good for the way the team played.
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fox, they played about like I figured they would although the outside shooting was terrible as you mentioned except for Foreman. We're going to be seeing a lot of sagging zones if the outside shooting doesn't improve. Not only was there only 3 3-pointers made but there were only a few more outside made besides that. Biggest concern I saw with Sheehan is LeMoyne was playing a zone and when Sheehan broke up to the high post he kept fumbling the passes. LeMoyne had their 1 inside guy who was about 6-9 but he got his 3rd foul in the 1st half and before their coach could get him out he got his 4th so that was pretty much it for him. I've seen teams lose a couple guys who were starters and actually get better 'cause the bench guys pass more and oftentimes hustle and play better defense. I think Hewitt has a walk-on besides Foreman that may be able to play decently off the bench.
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Yeah Sheehan couldn't catch passes early on, I am thinking it might have been nerves. His hands got much better in the second half. I just think that he will be very important as we will need him to step up so lawal can continue to be agressive in the post. the team definitely has a lot of road ahead of them. They could still surprise, but if we keep losing some of our best players to grades and injuries we can pretty much just start the countdown for the new recruits to get here. Gonna be a rough year for Yellow Jacket basketball me thinks.
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alagold Letterman 
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This team will struggle to score as soon as we get to "real" teams and defenses.NOBODY can consistently hit an outside shot on this team ,even Clinch who may not even play AT ALL. On our BEST night we may beat some teams at HOME but overall -weak.Our best play AGAIN,as with many of PHs teams, may be the offensive rebound.Throw it up and go get it. If we foul out guys,we are DEAD.No depth esp in back-court. Will PH last through next yr when his new "heroes"as FR have to save him?
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Ugag sucks Letterman
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alagold wrote: NOBODY can consistently hit an outside shot on this team ,even Clinch who may not even play AT ALL. I am hoping freshman Iman can come in and provide us with some outside shooting. He has been advertised as a playmaker.
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