Hot! Tech's Glen Rice Jr

By Ken Sugiura

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A season together with couple of brilliant lights mature perhaps dimmer Friday.

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Glen Rice Jr . ignored by way of Brian Gregory

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Following your crew s practice, Georgia Tech coach Brian Gregory publicised that will protect Glen Rice Jr . continues to be halted indefinitely. Rice, who seem to turns Tech within scoring, rebounding and steals, wasn't at training Friday and would certainly not make this getaway considering the group because of its sport several p.m. Saturday at Virginia Tech.

It is really a non-basketball matter. Gregory would not offer more reason as well as comment. The Yellow Jackets, who've missing twelve with their past fourteen mmorpgs plus are developing last location inside the ACC, will endeavour to fix his or her drop against the particular Hokies.

Nobody azines truly down, from a giving-up mode, safeguard Mfon Udofia said. With your period planning hence rough precisely as it is, males have a tendency to do that, although no one azines seriously executing that.

It is definitely Rice ersus next suspension belonging to the season. He started the season using a three-game suspension pertaining to violating workforce rules. He in addition ended up being benched for any remaining mmorpgs on the 2010-11 time of year by simply then-coach Paul Hewitt regarding disciplinary reasons.

With copy core Nate Hicks released with mononucleosis, Tech will perform this Hokies using eight grant players, including previous walk-ons Nick Foreman and Derek Craig. At train Friday, Gregory and also assistant private coach Josh Postorino played plays along with the companion team in order to constitute to the shortage.

We ve simply just have got to search deep, and many of us ll discover that were through not having a number of each of our brilliant guys, facility Daniel Miller said.

Gregory provides found in which despite that losses, players have serviced great perceptions and also have attempted to help abide by his coaching.

It senses diverse in my experience for the reason that I sense for instance you can easliy still alter things, Miller said. Like very last year, most of us reported it, although I didn capital t really feel that it seemed to be planning to happen. But this kind of year, I experience like, in the event that we can just about all find on the same page, that marilyn and i re planning to be successful.

The Jackets have mostly played out reputable half-court defense, nonetheless have sabotaged themselves by using lapses inside additional areas. In Tech vertisements 59-50 damage at Wake Forest with Wednesday, that Jackets presented the Demon Deacons that will 32.7 percent snapping shots through the domain but gave up 14 questionable rebounds, good for seventeen second-chance points, to 1 belonging to the weaker rebounding clubs while in the league. Gregory detailed much of the best fifty percent as pretty lethargic.

It has been stretches where, OK, in the event that most people have fun with for instance this, we can defeat everyone in the ACC, in addition to stretches where, whenever we all played such as that, we could possibly drop to help anyone within the ACC, Udofia said.

Udofia offers shown superior form recently, by using 14 facilitates alongside four turnovers in past times some games. Miller offers experienced four double-figures scoring mmorpgs inside a row having eighteen rebounds as well as eight hinders recently not one but two games. In the two almost all the latest losses, to N.C. State about Feb. in search of so to Wake Forest, Tech had been inside of four items with less than several a matter of minutes to play in each.

We ve reached have almost most people play properly so that they can be successful, Gregory said. We re also merely well enough for being in those people games. Now we ve got a chance to understand a way to finish off most of them.