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Nice start to building next year’s schedule. Also a nice trip to Paris to entice whatever transfers are needed to build out the roster. Seeing the “crowd” for this Duke/Baylor game, Paris organisers surely have to be happy to have Gamecock Nation coming back to this game. UNC/OU as the second matchup makes for quite a nice doubleheader. I almost said SEC/ACC. All these years later, I still have to remind myself UMD is in B10. 😝 🤷🏻♂️
First regular season win in the books… a few thoughts:
- strong first half, ragged second half. Grand Canyon’s coach is a recent former Gamecock assistant, so he was in a position to make some adjustments at halftime.
- the new faces, both transfers and freshmen, seemed to play well together.
- we miss having two extra bodies… when McDaniel went down hard, we all held our collective breaths.
- we are a long way from being ready for conference play… some stuff needs cleaning up (missed layups, fouls).
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This team has a lot of potential but there is a lot of work left to pull that potential out of them. Our defense in particular looks like a work in progress. The trio of the two Johnson and Latson are going to have to be the backbone of this team until the rest catch up. I see the potential. We have all the pieces but our coaching staff is going to earn their paychecks this season.
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Looks like we'll be playing you guys again. Hopefully we'll give you a better game. At least we'll have a top 7 player coming in next season.
The first test will be the Southern Cal game… on the road, against a quality team (even without JuJu). Duke just got a wake-up call, and we get them late November. At some point, we can expect to get punched in the mouth… how we react will say a lot about our potential. All that said, we gotta stay healthy.
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15,601 attendance. Not bad for a "warm up game."
But, I don't think this year will surpass 2024-2025 totals or average. Not enough bigtime home opponents to stir up the full 18,000
But, I don't think this year will surpass 2024-2025 totals or average. Not enough bigtime home opponents to stir up the full 18,000
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Just watching the game you could see some poor close outs and odd looking switches so not surprised Dawn mentioned that.
Did seem that SCar was not fully engaged in second half. Certainly cooled off on three point attempts.
Getting Okot squared away would seem the highest priority for this team.
Edwards was some missed bunnies away from a bigger night.
Latson's transition looks pretty effortless in 1 game. Don't force a thing. Refreshing to go a whole game without stupid shots or instagram worth turnovers.
Very nice game by Raven.
Very nice game by Tessa.
Makeer looks to have added some good weight and looks a little less coltish than her Team Canada appearances. Remain very high on her all around game and have raised my estimation of her offense. Still, working on not forcing things is something she will need to do, but I think she's going to come around there in a way that Amihere never really did.
Enjoyed Ayla.
That's my hot takes.
Did seem that SCar was not fully engaged in second half. Certainly cooled off on three point attempts.
Getting Okot squared away would seem the highest priority for this team.
Edwards was some missed bunnies away from a bigger night.
Latson's transition looks pretty effortless in 1 game. Don't force a thing. Refreshing to go a whole game without stupid shots or instagram worth turnovers.
Very nice game by Raven.
Very nice game by Tessa.
Makeer looks to have added some good weight and looks a little less coltish than her Team Canada appearances. Remain very high on her all around game and have raised my estimation of her offense. Still, working on not forcing things is something she will need to do, but I think she's going to come around there in a way that Amihere never really did.
Enjoyed Ayla.
That's my hot takes.
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This is my hope for her as well.
I would be surprised if there were more than 600 walk-up or single-game tickets sold. The upper deck baselines and corners, where most single-game tickets are, were relatively empty. I haven't seen an official season ticket count, but it seems the lowest reported attendance (which includes season tickets whether the ticket-holder attends or not) at home games this season will be around 15,000. Several thousand season ticket holders came disguised as empty seats last night. Still a great crowd, but I marvel at the number of folks who pay top dollar (plus Gamecock Club membership fees) for lower bowl tickets, then don't show up for the home opener. They missed a fun atmosphere, if not a close game.