Differences between South Carolina and Uconn

[jchusky]

If these teams get to play again, as I’ve said all year, the biggest difference will be guard play. UConn has 5 excellent guards. With a Paige and Azzi at their best, by far the best 2, having 5 should assure 2 or 3 fresh, hard playing, intense guards for 40 minutes. I say this will be the difference. Another difference I see is that UConn can still win a conference championship.

I want to use an example from the men's side. Gonzaga had all these high scoring guards and their best player Jalen Suggs and 90% of the ppl picked them to beat Baylor because they didn't know Baylor was going to stop their offense. Baylor said we gonna punish you defensively so you earn every shot, and that they did and they went on to blowout and humiliate Gonzaga. I've said it all season, defense wins championships, I know Uconn will score, but can they defend against the elite teams?

 

[npignatjr]

Considering she's been reffed a certain wait all season, I wouldn't hold my breath that she'll get start getting called for more fouls in the NCAA tournament.

Today's loss to Kentucky was an exception she got away with murder and still SC lost. Until a foul in the last seconds SC had ZERO foils called against them in the 4th quarter. That officiating crew should be done for at least this year.

 

[DrummerDee]

pretty sure I said 4th not full game.

kinda like SC being held to 7 points in the 4th today by Kentucky after being up 15? UConn had the game in hand till early in the 4th, when they just ran out of gas. This will not happen again.

 

[TeamFirst!]

My original thoughts in starting this post was in exploring the vulnerabilities of SC. They are beatable, as any team is beatable. My impression is that if their guards are not hitting their shots it makes them far more vulnerable. That happened today, against Kentucky, and all it took was one hot shooter on Kentucky and some solid defense to stop them. That absolutely could happen with any team but South Carolina is not a great outside shooting team and it makes them vulnerable in similar efforts in the playoffs. We have the personnel to do it if we play more players than in game one, and keep the defensive intensity up. We are better shooters.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Geno's not taking Nika out of the starting lineup unless injuries become a consideration

If you don’t see the reason for doing just that against a team with a playing style like South Carolina, then I’ll just leave it at that and say goodnight.

 

[darkstar1]

I want to use an example from the men's side. Gonzaga had all these high scoring guards and their best player Jalen Suggs and 90% of the ppl picked them to beat Baylor because they didn't know Baylor was going to stop their offense. Baylor said we gonna punish you defensively so you earn every shot, and that they did and they went on to blowout and humiliate Gonzaga. I've said it all season, defense wins championships, I know Uconn will score, but can they defend against the elite teams?

Totally agree. Defense wins championships. Both teams have excellent defenses. That is why I picked guard play as the most significant difference.