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Gamecocks 2022

Whelp, time to move on from 2021. Let's talk 2022 "All things Gamecocks" First, who are we gonna have? Well, more depth with 15 potential scholarship players. Fifth year senior: ???????? Lele Griffith: W Seniors: Elysa Wesolek F Destiny Littleton G Destanni Henderson PG Victaria Saxton F...
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There's conflicting information out there about whether or not the new contract is a done deal. IMO, she needs to be paid more than Mulkey.
 
cockhrnleghrn said:
There's conflicting information out there about whether or not the new contract is a done deal. IMO, she needs to be paid more than Mulkey.
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I expect she will be up there. USC doesn’t want to be playing games especially after Dawn’s flirtation with the Blazers has her rethinking her past statements about not coaching pros. Mulkey certainly set the market. Question is will she be paid in the Vanderveer-Mulkey or the Mulkey-Geno range. And there likely will be added, less publicized inducements, such as another split level policy with an increase in value than the $1.5 million + interest of the current one.
 
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Boston wants to know why practice is so hard now.

I'm really interested to see her talk about her motivations this off-season during media days.
 
cacoastfan said:
I'm intrigued to see the dynamic of these two. Curious to see if Cardoso will get the starting nod over Saxton and have Boston move to the 4. Lot of options for Staley
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Going to be really interesting when you throw in Amihere.

the stacked schedule will make it harder to experiment maybe.

I don't envy the playing time decisions.
 
cacoastfan said:
I'm intrigued to see the dynamic of these two. Curious to see if Cardoso will get the starting nod over Saxton and have Boston move to the 4. Lot of options for Staley
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I don't see that playing out. I think we'll see the same starting five as last season, with perhaps Amihere taking over Saxton at the 4. Boston has been the best 5 in the nation the past 2 years, I don't think you move her. It works from a roster depth standpoint to keep her at the 5 as well with Cardoso being a key off the bench.
 
To me the 4 spot is the only possible starting line up change. The 1 and 2 are locked up, and unless Rivers is killing it in practices and training camp, I don’t see Beal losing the 3. Feagin didn’t show me enough in U19 that she’s ready to be the starter now at the 3 or 4. So it’s whether Cardoso or Amihere have exhibited enough to move Saxton out. It will definite be intriguing to see how the season evolves and if the starting lineup changes any by the middle or end.
 
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Gamecockfan77 said:
Going to be really interesting when you throw in Amihere.

the stacked schedule will make it harder to experiment maybe.

I don't envy the playing time decisions.
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I don’t envy it either - I wonder if Amihere will get more time at the 3 given her versatility, it will be interesting to see her development, especially following her stint with the Canadian National Team. She seemed to begin to put things together this past season, I definitely see her blossoming more
 
JDuro said:
To me the 4 spot is the only possible starting line up change. The 1 and 2 are locked up, and unless Rivers is killing it in practices and training camp, I don’t see Beal losing the 3. Feagin didn’t show me enough in U19 that she’s ready to be the starter now at the 3 or 4. So it’s whether Cardoso or Amihere have exhibited enough to move Saxton out. It will definite be intriguing to see how the season evolves and if the starting lineup changes any by the middle or end.
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Who starts isn't nearly as important as the minutes and ultimately which lineups play together the most when it matters.

I think Beal's position should be contested, but I would be somewhat surprised if she lost it.

the other three spots seem locked in to me.
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
Who starts isn't nearly as important as the minutes and ultimately which lineups play together the most when it matters.

I think Beal's position should be contested, but I would be somewhat surprised if she lost it.

the other three spots seem locked in to me.
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Beal is that glue player that Dawn loves; Asia Dozier, Elem Ibiam, etc. The only difference is that Beal was a top 12 player and McDonald's All-American.
 
cockhrnleghrn said:
Beal is that glue player that Dawn loves; Asia Dozier, Elem Ibiam, etc. The only difference is that Beal was a top 12 player and McDonald's All-American.
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with the caveat that SC was maybe a missed put back away from the title last season, I'm not sure last year's level of offense from Saxton and Beal can play many minutes together.

Beal adding consistent shooting to her game would solve all of that. That's her missing link, imo.

I kind of doubt that there is an immediate better option. I think the freshmen will need time to feel their way, but we will see.
 
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cacoastfan said:
I don’t envy it either - I wonder if Amihere will get more time at the 3 given her versatility, it will be interesting to see her development, especially following her stint with the Canadian National Team. She seemed to begin to put things together this past season, I definitely see her blossoming more
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Don't forget she's finally rounding into form after 2 ACL injuries and not having a brace on her leg. It takes a lot longer to get used to that than I thought from what I've learned.
 
From the video it doesn't look like LeLe is practicing. She's got on a long sleeve t-shirt. :(
 
TC22 said:
From the video it doesn't look like LeLe is practicing. She's got on a long sleeve t-shirt. :(
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From what I've read she probably won't be fully ready to play until around SEC season starts. The regular season doesn't start until November, so she's still healing from her injury....
 
cacoastfan said:
I don’t envy it either - I wonder if Amihere will get more time at the 3 given her versatility, it will be interesting to see her development, especially following her stint with the Canadian National Team. She seemed to begin to put things together this past season, I definitely see her blossoming more
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No way should SC put Amihere at the 3. If that were to happen- the opposing team goes zone or some other major sagging/gimmick defense.
 
hoophuskee said:
No way should SC put Amihere at the 3. If that were to happen- the opposing team goes zone or some other major sagging/gimmick defense.
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I agree that it shouldn't be her natural position. But, I think we'll experiment with her playing the 3 so that Dawn can see if she can situationally use a Cardoso-Boston-Amihere lineup to exploit matchups.
 
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hoophuskee said:
No way should SC put Amihere at the 3. If that were to happen- the opposing team goes zone or some other major sagging/gimmick defense.
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??? What is this based on ? Her freshman yr she was 7-12 from 3. Sophomore she hardly took any threes. Shhh
 
ConwayGmck said:
From what I've read she probably won't be fully ready to play until around SEC season starts. The regular season doesn't start until November, so she's still healing from her injury....
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She had an Achilles injury, correct ? Not an ACL ?
 
Let's play the divide 200 minutes game the Husky fans are playing on their baords.

How to you think the 200 minutes will be divided up this season among the 16 players on the roster. To make it easier, let's just say 15 and not count LeLe who may miss almost half the season.

Seniors
LeLe Grissett, guard
Destanni Henderson, guard
Victaria Saxton, forward
Destiny Littleton, guard
Elysa Wesolek, forward

Juniors
Aliyah Boston, forward
Zia Cooke, guard
Brea Beal, guard
Laeticia Amihere, forward
Olivia Thompson, guard

Sophomores
Eniya Russell, guard
Kamilla Cardoso, center

Freshmen
Saniya Rivers, guard
Raven Johnson, guard
Sania Feagin, forward
Bree Hall, guard

Last year's total games/ games started/total minutes/average minutes

01
Cooke, Zia ​
313199432.1
04
Boston, Aliyah ​
313194130.4
03
Henderson, Destanni ​
3131105434.0
05
Saxton, Victaria ​
313072523.4
12
Beal, Brea ​
313084227.2
15
Amihere, Laeticia ​
31156018.1
24
Grissett, LeLe ​
25147919.2
02
Russell, Eniya ​
2601696.5
11
Littleton, Destiny ​
28032411.6
00
Thompson, Olivia ​
200532.7
32
Wesolek, Elysa ​
180844.7
 
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Destanni Henderson----------28
Zia Cooke----------------------28
Destiny Littleton----------------10
Raven Johnson-------------------9
Saniya Rivers---------------------9
Bree Hall................................................5
Eniya Russell---------------------5
Olivia Thompson ---------------3


Aliya Boston--------------------25
Brea Beal------------------------18
Victaria Saxton -----------------17
Latticia Amihere-----------------17
Kamilla Cardosa------------------17
Sania Feagin----------------------6
Elysa Wesolek--------------------3
 
Creature said:
She had an Achilles injury, correct ? Not an ACL ?
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I'm not sure I've ever seen any official announcement of what it was, beyond a foot/lower leg injury. So I think we can rule out an ACL, especially with how Lele reacted to the injury when it happened. She never focused on her knee area - more to her foot/ankle/lower leg area. And she's been wearing a boot and riding the little scooter thing that allowed her to bend her leg at the knee, as opposed to a knee/leg brace, so that also tells us things....

In any case it was a tendon/ligament injury, or a soft-tissue injury. If it was just a broken bone, those things typically require 4-6 weeks to heal, and she'd be out there practicing by now.....
 
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Five (5) player slots per game, 40 minutes per game: 5 x 40 = 200 total game-minutes (G-M):

Henderson - 23
Cooke - 19
Beal - 15
Saxton - 15
Boston - 20

Johnson - 13
Russell - 12
Rivers - 14
Amihere - 17
Cardoso - 18

Littleton - 5
Thompson - 4
Hall - 9
Wesolek - 5
Feagin - 11
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Total G-M = 200


Henderson, Cooke, and Boston were the top minute per game (MPG) leaders last season, and that was to the team's detriment. All three players were gassed in many critical games late, and in stretches where the team played several tough games in quick succession. They all need back-up help, but will still lead the team in MPG despite getting that help this season.

Henderson being the quarterback of the team will again be #1 in MPG, but will get ample assistance from Raven, especially early in the season. Cooke oftentimes rushed herself in games and put too much on her own shoulders: she'll get a chance to come out after errors or exhaustion if that continues. Most of the newer, younger players will get more MPG than shown above in the non-conference portion of the season - used to be for a SEC team, the OOC portion was used as preparation for the much more tougher, physical conference season to come. During the SEC schedule, expect those above MPG to slide 1-2 minutes each towards the starters, as the physicality ramps up. But they (starters) should be well rested from the rotations of depth come conference season.

With Coach Staley at USC, our non-conf. schedules have been almost as tough as our conference schedule, and this is also due to the SEC slipping slightly in recent years from the level it regularly used to be. But there will also be longer stretches of days between games in the non-conf. period as well, instead of the typical 3-4-3-4-3-4 spreads of the SEC slate, so that should help too. But expect to see the starters given liberal rest during the non-conference slate, and the reserves given as much time to show their stuff as they want, in all but the most critical of games.

Beal and Saxton will be the starters with the most pressure on them to step up their games, with talented reserves behind them in Rivers and Amihere. Cardoso was brought in to give Boston more minutes of rest, and they may start out 50-50 to start the season, but Boston should start gaining some of those minutes back as the SEC season begins. When Grissett returns to active duty, she'll take minutes at the 2 and 3 spots.....
 
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