Early in the first half of the Tigers’ 79-69 victory against Arkansas on Saturday, LSU men’s basketball coach Trent Johnson got upset with the team’s poor ball control and kicked the scorers’ table.He noticed the same type of execution at practice Monday and let his team know he wasn’t having any of it.”I told them, ‘Don’t have me breaking my toe again,'” Johnson said.But the first-year coach said that was the only light moment of that day’s practice, and Tigers (17-4, 5-1) are focused on keeping the intensity up tonight against Georgia (9-12, 0-6), something they have done all season.LSU dropped its first Southeastern Conference game of the season on Jan. 11 but has won the past five, with four of the five wins coming by double digits.”We just want to come out with the same intensity no matter what, whether we win, lose or draw,” said LSU junior forward Tasmin Mitchell. “After we lost a game last year, we didn’t come out with the sense of urgency that we do now. After we lost to Xavier, we went to Tennessee and beat them at their home. “It’s just a whole new thing and new dimension of LSU basketball. We have a lot of commitment and intensity in every single game. We couldn’t do that a year ago.” Mitchell said the Tigers have been doing the little things necessary to win games, which comes from not wanting games to slip away from them. LSU leads the SEC with a +7.6 rebounding margin and is second in offensive rebounds. The Tigers are second in the conference with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.28.Senior guard Garrett Temple leads the conference with a 2.26 ratio.But the Tigers’ hustling doesn’t always show up on the stat book, and nearly every player has spent time on the floor diving for a loose ball.”It’s just a sense of urgency,” Mitchell said. “That’s what we want to do as a team. We want to get every loose ball. We might not come up with it, but we’ll go for every attempt.”LSU faces a Georgia team in transition. The Bulldogs fired coach Dennis Felton last week and named Pete Herrmann interim coach for the remainder of the season.Herrmann lost his first game at the helm, a 75-70 loss Saturday at Alabama, another team that recently fired its coach.But Johnson said he sees a similarity in Georgia to a Georgia Tech team that took down No. 2 Wake Forest last week.    “Usually in those situations, you would think they are weak,” Johnson said. “But with a game under their belts, those kids have had the opportunity to settle down, and coach Herrmann has been a head coach before.”—-Contact Amos Morale at [email protected]