Yup. Cooke scored really well, perhaps her best game of the season. But the SCar back court didn't manage the pressure well. Georgia wasn't the team to capitalize on this. But Ohio St. is such a team. Guard play is the only real question mark about SCar, otherwise they're pretty much invulnerable. On the plus side, SCar played great D all game long, and in the second half it was smothering.
Cooke, Fletcher, Johnson, and Beal (who's the shortest player out there for tonight's game, after those other three mentioned) were a combined 12 assists and 5 turnovers. Beal led the way with 5 assists and 0 turnovers. That wasn't too ugly. Boston, Saxton, Cardoso, and Amihere were a combined 1 assist and 10 turnovers....
South Carolina is typically a team that makes solid halftime adjustments and plays better in the 2nd half than in the 1st. Tonight, they shot 14-22 (.636) from the field, and 5-7 (.714) from the 3-pt line, and out-scored UGA 42-22 post intermission.
Actually, if you charted the game, South Carolina shot progressively better with each passing period of play, while Georgia shot progressively worse:
1st Period:
USC: 4-16 (25.0%)
UGA: 6-12 (50.0%)
2nd Period:
USC: 4-12 (33.3%)
UGA: 7-17 (41.2%)
3rd Period:
USC: 9-16 (56.3%)
UGA: 4-12 (33.3%)
4th Period:
USC: 5-6 (83.3%)
UGA: 4-17 (23.5%)
That's what I call figuring things out as the game progresses.....