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Gamecockfan77 said:
I do think that next year's team may be a wake up call as to how hard it is to defend like SC has.
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Maybe, but Dawn is really pushing the whole defend if you want to play thing this year. It’s why those girls have been on the bench and not playing.
 
TC22 said:
Maybe, but Dawn is really pushing the whole defend if you want to play thing this year. It’s why those girls have been on the bench and not playing.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if she were, given how well SCar defends year to year. Isn’t this what Geno and Tara do, too? The trick is to recruit kids for their willingness to defend, and to attract them to your program. I suspect this gets a little easier with each NC you win.
 
Just picking notes from the Schools's press release:

South Carolina leads the nation in scoring defense, fg% defense, 3pt% defense, and blocked shots.

Despite my own concerns that there is diminished dominance here: SC still has a rebounding margin advantage of 21.1 per game. Stanford is the only team to our rebound them and UCLA, SDakotaState, and Georgia are the only other three to keep the margin in single digits.

South Carolina is now fourth all time in total weeks spent ranked at #1, which is sort of surprising but cool.

This is only the fifth longest streak of any school for consecutive weeks ranked at #1.
 
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shiverz45 said:
So, you think Dawn would put her at the point guard spot if she had "terrible handle". Make it make sense. Are you trolling?
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Some guards have terrible handles. The caveat is for an elite point I suppose, but I figured that was implied. She's not South Carolina's first choice for point guard. Her handle is good for someone her size but not so for an elite point guard.
 
hoopsnloops32 said:
Some guards have terrible handles. The caveat is for an elite point I suppose, but I figured that was implied. She's not South Carolina's first choice for point guard. Her handle is good for someone her size but not so for an elite point guard.
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She doesn't have to be an elite point guard to be able to break a press when necessary. No different than Edwards in a few games this season for UConn. It's good to have additional players who can get you out of a jam, when the primary ballhandlers are stuck or being guarded closely.
 
hoopsnloops32 said:
If you don't think its obvious you don't watch much basketball outside of SC games.
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There was a reason Dawn made Amihere the PG when Destiny went down last season . She Average 4 assists per game as a Power Forward playing PG come on now lol
 
hoopsnloops32 said:
Some guards have terrible handles. The caveat is for an elite point I suppose, but I figured that was implied. She's not South Carolina's first choice for point guard. Her handle is good for someone her size but not so for an elite point guard.
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She's the 2nd choice because its not her primary position lol . If Raven god forbid or Fletcher goes down im very confident LA would be the PG starting and not Cooke or anyone else on the gamecocks team. She Excelled in that stretch last season proving her versatility and ability to play 1-4 on offense. Her handle is fine and so are her basketball instincts and potential going forward. She needs to work on being a shooter that's her biggest knock. Everyone knows when she gets the ball shes going straight to the rim in control or not.
 
cancontent said:
She doesn't have to be an elite point guard to be able to break a press when necessary. No different than Edwards in a few games this season for UConn. It's good to have additional players who can get you out of a jam, when the primary ballhandlers are stuck or being guarded closely.
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Ok? I never said that she should be point guard just that her handle is weak. Which it is .
 
WFFL said:
There was a reason Dawn made Amihere the PG when Destiny went down last season . She Average 4 assists per game as a Power Forward playing PG come on now lol
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Yea and it wasn't her handle.
 
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The Gamecocks win in a route of the Auburn Tigers 94-42. South Carolina shot 36-57 (63.2%) from the field, and 7-16 (43.8%) from the 3-pt. line. Also shot 15-18 (83.3%) from the FT line as well. They finished with 25 assists, to 14 turnovers, and out-rebounded Auburn 45-25. Also had 9 blocks and 6 steals. The bench out-scored Auburn's bench 47-13.

Cardoso led the team off the bench with 16 pts on 6-7 shooting, with 5 boards. Boston fell just short of a double-double, with 13 pts on 5-7 shooting, with 9 rebounds, 4 blocks, and 3 assists. Saxton added 12 pts on 5-7 shooting, with 5 rebounds. Cooke followed up on her 31-pt. effort in the last game versus Georgia, with 10 pts on 4-8 shooting.

Fletcher and Johnson combined at the PG spot to add in 9 pts on 4-8 shooting, with 12 assists against just one turnover, plus 8 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 blocks......
 
Very impressive stat sheet tonight for the Gsmecocks! 63% field goal % 44% 3 pt %
25 assists
 
Cockygirl said:
Very impressive stat sheet tonight for the Gsmecocks! 63% field goal % 44% 3 pt %
25 assists
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I believe I read on the CLA stat board they shot 83% from the FT line as well.

Kierra looking more and more comfy at the point.

I feel Breezy needs more PT - but that’s just me.
 
JDuro said:
I believe I read on the CLA stat board they shot 83% from the FT line as well.

Kierra looking more and more comfy at the point.

I feel Breezy needs more PT - but that’s just me.
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I agree, but from where hahaha... this team is so dang deep. Ashlyn and Coop didn't even play tonight. Sheesh.
 
Not a follower of South Carolina but was surprised to learn that Chloe Kitts made a mid-season debut before X-mas.
She's played 5 games so far and looks like a strong, impressive freshman player based on her first game.
But she's only averaging 3.0 points per game based on playing 13 minutes per game.

 
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Kitts will be fine. She was in high school just last week it seems. The expectation for her is to play free and learn the defense. She is not expected to average 10 PPG this season. That would be nice, but Dawn is not asking that of 17 year old Chloe Kitts.
 
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SCGamecock said:
Kitts will be fine. She was in high school just last week it seems. The expectation for her is to play free and learn the defense. She is not expected to average 10 PPG this season. That would be nice, but Dawn is not asking that of 17 year old Chloe Kitts.
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She actually improving a lot especially defensively. Next year Dawn will run that play to get her that baseline shot because it’s money for her. Just like KiKi!
 
SCGamecock said:
Kitts will be fine. She was in high school just last week it seems. The expectation for her is to play free and learn the defense. She is not expected to average 10 PPG this season. That would be nice, but Dawn is not asking that of 17 year old Chloe Kitts.
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Basically, she's playing when the opponent is overmatched or the game is out of hand, which I suppose are the same thing.

I think she need off-season strength building and a good bit of work, but she is a good prospect.

I would never think to play her instead of Watkins or Cooper but coach I think is doing coach stuff.
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
Basically, she's playing when the opponent is overmatched or the game is out of hand, which I suppose are the same thing.

I think she need off-season strength building and a good bit of work, but she is a good prospect.

I would never think to play her instead of Watkins or Cooper but coach I think is doing coach stuff.
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Always remember that we do not see practice thus it makes it difficult to understand some in game decisions as it relates to personnel. Remember earlier, Dawn sat Cardoso and Feagin to elicit a certain response and since then, look at thier play. I think I will trust my coach.
 
SCspur said:
She actually improving a lot especially defensively. Next year Dawn will run that play to get her that baseline shot because it’s money for her. Just like KiKi!
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We should pretty much eventually hand her all of the plays we ran for KiKi… they have similar games offensively and Chloe feasts on that baseline jumper just like KiKi once did.

I’m really glad she came early because this in game experience plus off season strength training is really going to benefit her in the fall.
 
sharris25 said:
Always remember that we do not see practice thus it makes it difficult to understand some in game decisions as it relates to personnel. Remember earlier, Dawn sat Cardoso and Feagin to elicit a certain response and since then, look at thier play. I think I will trust my coach.
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Basically what I was trying to say.
 
sharris25 said:
Always remember that we do not see practice thus it makes it difficult to understand some in game decisions as it relates to personnel. Remember earlier, Dawn sat Cardoso and Feagin to elicit a certain response and since then, look at thier play. I think I will trust my coach.
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Remember two things? I don’t think I can do that. It really is asking a lot.
 
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Feagin out today - lower leg injury. would imagine that means Watkins will get some PT
 
Pretty rough outing for the Gamecocks, in terms of shooting and scoring efficiency. The Miss State Bulldogs are of course a very strong defensive team statistically - just outside the top 10 in Scoring Defense (most likely will sneak into the top 10 there, now), in the top 10 nationally in FG % Defense and 3-pt. FG % Defense. Their SOS was only slightly stronger than LSU's - the only other SEC team with strong defensive statistics in the whelm of Miss St. and USC. But it was on their home floor on national TV, so kinda like Missouri last season, they were geeked to give us their best effort, and we didn't respond well to that.

Despite the Bulldog's defensive prowess, we had a ton of open looks and layup opportunities that we bricked up. It seems that every season for the past 3-5 seasons - despite the team being ranked in the top 10 if not ranked #1 for the majority of that time, and being stocked to the gills with McD AA 5-star talent on the roster - we have 2-3 games every season where we seem to be off our game, off kilter. We come out flat or look tired or unprepared. Like the season has played a toll on us. We played that way versus Missouri last season, versus NC State and Tennessee in 20-21, Texas A%M in 19-20.

In many cases, the opponent was not good enough to take advantage of that, and we still won "ugly". But in cases with decent or better teams in bad situations - like on those team's home floors - it has proven to be quite costly. We got another "ugly" win today on a strong defensive conference opponent's home floor, and we should take away only thankful feelings from that. But....back to the practice court classroom. If we are able to.....
 
It’s basically the halfway point of the regular season. All teams are tired and haven’t gotten their seasonal “second wind” yet. Lots of conference leaders struggled yesterday.
 
ConwayGmck said:
Pretty rough outing for the Gamecocks, in terms of shooting and scoring efficiency. The Miss State Bulldogs are of course a very strong defensive team statistically - just outside the top 10 in Scoring Defense (most likely will sneak into the top 10 there, now), in the top 10 nationally in FG % Defense and 3-pt. FG % Defense. Their SOS was only slightly stronger than LSU's - the only other SEC team with strong defensive statistics in the whelm of Miss St. and USC. But it was on their home floor on national TV, so kinda like Missouri last season, they were geeked to give us their best effort, and we didn't respond well to that.

Despite the Bulldog's defensive prowess, we had a ton of open looks and layup opportunities that we bricked up. It seems that every season for the past 3-5 seasons - despite the team being ranked in the top 10 if not ranked #1 for the majority of that time, and being stocked to the gills with McD AA 5-star talent on the roster - we have 2-3 games every season where we seem to be off our game, off kilter. We come out flat or look tired or unprepared. Like the season has played a toll on us. We played that way versus Missouri last season, versus NC State and Tennessee in 20-21, Texas A%M in 19-20.

In many cases, the opponent was not good enough to take advantage of that, and we still won "ugly". But in cases with decent or better teams in bad situations - like on those team's home floors - it has proven to be quite costly. We got another "ugly" win today on a strong defensive conference opponent's home floor, and we should take away only thankful feelings from that. But....back to the practice court classroom. If we are able to.....
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I think this was a pretty typical outing for our starters. When it becomes a defensive game, we tend focus on that part and value those matchups. We basically got slapped in the face during Q1, worked our way out of it in Q2 and then just maintained the lead for the rest of the game. This group tends to do well against other defensive-minded teams.
 
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