A&M grinds out an ugly win in Athens

A beautiful disaster.

This game won’t win any awards for pace, artistic expression, or well-played basketball. But it was a hard fought game against a surprisingly chippy Georgia squad, on the road, in a venue where we couldn’t buy a call.

And we gutted it out.

Let’s break it down.

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Lookin’ Good Early

We flat out brought the defensive intensity tonight.

Our shots weren’t falling early, but Georgia (with their healthy 14th out of 14 ranking among SEC offenses) couldn’t get anything going on offense. We were closing hard, but we were also closing smart. We have a tendency to fly to the arc and lose our discipline when we trot out the zone, and today we did a much…