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Message: [QUOTE="SCGamecock, post: 2553908, member: 6132"] All of this pretty much. I couldn’t have said it better. I think the most impressive offensive flow we had in these past 5 or 6 years was just last year.. late in the season when we lost Coates and started playing 4 out/1 in.. Harris at PG, Cuevas at SG, Davis at SF, Gray at PF and Wilson at C. Gray and Wilson had exceptional chemistry on the court. Those are all 4 players you have to defend anywhere on the court... Harris was shy on the perimeter but even she could burn you if you left her open and you had to guard Wilson everywhere as well because she’s a playmaker naturally. I am NOT a fan of the double post system but with Coates and Wilson (and Welch and Ibiam before them), the double post system has worked so well for us because they are so dominant.. but the force it into the paint offense limits our guard play and I think that has caused us to suffer when it comes to recruiting dynamic wing players with SC establishing the reputation of being a "post-centric" offense/program. If you’re noticing, Dawn being who she is, almost always gets the point guard she wants in a recruiting class and it seems our PG recruiting keeps improving. Sutton, Walker, Sessions, Harris, Henderson.. you’ll begin to see what she wants at that spot and how she builds her team around that...Ironically, we missed on both of the PGs we recruited for 2015 (Lambert and Cooper) and one of them still ended up on our roster. Sutton/Walker were great playmakers and off the bounce. Sutton is still one of the best guards I've seen in a SC uniform with the ball in her hand (although Mitchell was just as good and I think Destanni Henderson will have something to say about that before it's all over). Sessions was a great scorer at the high school level but with Coates/Wilson on the horizon, Dawn recruited her with the intentions of her being a playmaker. I think Sessions got TOO good at being a playmaker that it caused her own offense to suffer and it became mental for her. Harris is a great all around point guard, super high basketball intelligence and a leader, the perfect player to lead this team into a new era post-Wilson. Henderson is a great passer/playmaker but she's an elite level scoring point guard. She really shines when she's hunting for her shot, which is often. So SC does well recruiting PGs and does a decent job with Forwards... the one area we severely lack in is recruiting wings, whether it be shooting guards or small forwards. We have not done well there at all, which is surprising given how well SC did developing Mitchell into a WNBA caliber guard even though she was at the bottom of the top-50 out of high school. Perhaps it's a thing of SC recruiting these players then pulling out in favor of better players, but that's hard for me to believe considering who we've brought in in return. Or maybe it's just these players choosing other schools over SC. Or perhaps it's a case of a class filling up quickly (2017) and players (Westbrook) deciding not to visit because of that. In 2015, we missed on Destinee Walker (UNC). In 2016, it was Leaonna Odom (Duke), Nicole Ekhomu (FSU) and Jensen Caretti (Ohio State). In 2017, it was Westbrook (Tennessee) and Deauzya Richards (Baylor).. although we did get Grissett and Jackson with Grissett projected as a wing at the time but she obviously had a growth spurt and is now a 6'3 power forward for us. The jury is still out on Jackson's ceiling.. is she more Asia Dozier or Tiffany Mitchell? We'll see. In 2018, Williams crushed us (UConn), Zarielle Green for whatever reason swapped SC for Tennessee at the last minute, committed to Kansas, THEN actually committed to Tennessee after being convinced to take a visit (which tells me she was a take for SC but something happened)... Elizabeth Balogun chose Georgia Tech mostly for academic reasons and Rhyne Howard, who I thought was definitely coming to SC, committed to Kentucky instead. SC won it's first title when it had dynamic players at all positions... not just at PG and Forward. I don't think we'll get our next one until we get better on the wings. [/QUOTE]

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