Everything From Georgia Tech Guards Lance Terry and Miles Kelly at ACC Basketball Tip-Off
You know that ACC Basketball is getting close to returning when it is time for ACC Media Days.
Today, the 2023-2024 ACC Basketball Tip-Off took place in Charlotte, and representing Georgia Tech was head coach Damon Stoudamire alongside guards Miles Kelly and Lance Terry.
Kelly averaged 14.8 PPG and got in double figures in 25 games during this past season, including setting his career high in a single game with 30 points against Syracuse on February 28th. He also set the program record for free throw shooting percentage (89.83%) in a single season. He averaged 14.6 minutes per game as a freshman during the 2021-2022 season and shot 40.7% from the floor and 34.7% from three-point range. He was the leading scorer for Georgia Tech last season.
Here is everything from Kelly and Terry today at ACC Media Days.
1. What's the biggest improvement you've seen in this team in the off-season?
LANCE TERRY: "You know, the biggest improvement I would say is how connected we are. Coach has harped on that a lot, just being a more connected team, being there for each other, being more like a family."
2. Lance, kind of what's been the biggest change you've seen with the offense and what you guys are trying to do this year under Coach Stoudamire?
LANCE TERRY: "The biggest change I would say is a lot more screening. We're doing a lot of screening, a lot more moving, a lot of cutting, just being very detailed on our screens, rolling, doing a lot of head-unders, just a lot of different stuff."
3. Just for the leadership style of Damon Stoudamire, what you like about the way he connects with the team and the way he tries to teach you?
LANCE TERRY: "You know, the way that he tries to teach, I think he's a real hard-nosed kind of guy, but at the same time he's very laid back, like he'll joke around with you and everything, but he gives a lot of wisdom whenever he speaks just on us to listen to him."
4. Lance, you are 14 miles from home. What's it like to play college ball so close to home?
LANCE TERRY: "I love it. My family gets to come to every game now. It was a struggling when I was playing up here at my last school, so being back home, I love it."
5. When we think about the transition that's happened at Georgia Tech over the last year or so and what the program continues to build, at the end of the year, how will you know you were successful this season?
LANCE TERRY: "I just think you just look at our record and everything. I feel like we're going to be really good this year. We're going to be a winning record. Just going to try to do our best out there."
6. When you think about Miles Kelly, how would you describe your teammate?
LANCE TERRY: "I love Miles. He's a very great player, can really shoot the ball. That's my guy. I love him."
7. What does Miles need to work on?
LANCE TERRY: "I've been joking around with him, about getting his one leg jumping ability up. I want him to get some more dunks out there on some people, so I've been joking around with him about that."
8. Miles, when you think about Lance Terry, what kind of player is he? What does he need to work on?
MILES KELLY: "Lance is a very explosive player. He can shoot the ball. He can do everything out there on the court. He's a great player."
9. To have a head coach that had so much success in the NBA as well as obviously collegiately, what that means to you to be taught by him knowing how many years he had in the NBA, rookie year and all of his successes?
MILES KELLY: "That's huge. Anytime you have a guy like that who's played and coached at the highest level, that's huge. Just to be able to pick his brain and see what he thinks on things has been huge for me personally."
10. Just curious, you guys played your first secret scrimmage and you guys are shooting a lot more threes. What has it been like to be given such a green light after maybe not shooting the volume of threes you guys are normally shooting?
MILES KELLY: "I mean, it comes with a lot of responsibility. We've got to shoot threes and also knock them down. As long as we're getting into our sets right and making the shots, it'll be good."
11. Double figures in your last eight games of the season, including the tournament. What did you learn about yourself at the end of the season that you carried with you into the off-season?
MILES KELLY: "Definitely my work ethic. I think my work ethic stayed the same throughout the off-season and throughout the end of the season. I would say continuing to have that same work ethic has definitely taken me a long way."
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