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JDuro said:
Yesterday’s game is a bad one to be making grand pronouncements about the potential of this team. It was a glorified exhibition and C of C’s lack of abilities had a very steroidal affect on USC’s performance. USC played a cupcake and they destroyed them like the cupcake they are, and that’s a good thing.

Lele is no PG, and certainly not a replacement for Ty. She’s is not the ball handler or floor general that Ty is. Lele also has yet to show that she can hit shots away from the basket like Ty could, as she still gets her offensive production under the rim. Yes, Dawn feels comfortable having her bring the ball up the court, but against better, more pressing defenses, you want the ball in Henny, Zia, or Eniya’s hands. Lele is no more a PG than Tina Roy or Cliney who Dawn also allowed to handle the ball at times.

It’s crazy to say Ty and Kiki Herbert-Harrigan won’t be missed. I have no worries that LA and Saxton will cover a great deal of what Kiki did when it comes to rebounding and blocks. It’s Kiki’s ability to stretch the floor with her uncanny jump shot that we’ll likely miss. Kiki wasn’t a volume 3 pt shooter, but she hit enough, and at a 44% clip, to know she was a weapon and you did it at your own peril if you cheated away from her to double or triple on Boston. Vic has yet to exhibit that ability while LA has shown potential, hitting 7 of 13 from deep last year.

And to keep things shorter, there will be plenty of times when not having Ty running and leading the team will show up, subtle in most cases, glaring in a few. Luckily having Destanni to move into her place is about as good a replacement you can have.

Lastly, Eniya showed me she definitely is a true PG. I see what those people who saw her play in HS were talking about when they intimated she was being slept on. She showed me enough, even against weak comp that she has the handles, the shooting touch, and the basketball smarts, to grow into a very good PG over the next 4 yrs, which is going to be fun to witness.
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Y’all are a great team, and are going to get even better. I just want to say, I am not here for the Ty Harris replacement talk. My team has had two of the best PGs in the league (if underrated) over the last 4 years, and I appreciate PG play. Ty was generational at her job. I both hated (Bc, again, not my team) and loved watching her play.
 
First casualty on SC's schedule. Gamecocks to have an off day Sunday if the MTE can't or chooses not to find a replacement team.

 
Much tougher opponent this afternoon in the Soith Dakota ‘Yotes who went 32-2 last year.. one of those losses was a hard fought 73-60 battle with the Gamecocks.

this is a tough, well disciplined team. They may not have the same level of talent but they have a winner’s mentality and will not roll over.

I don’t think we’ll see 11 players getting good minutes today. We’re gonna see mostly the core 7/8
 
Season definitely starts today and SD a very scary team to face, especially in their own backyard. I put the Coyotes in my Boneyard Top 25 (as well as the Zags). I’ll say Dawn will go 9 deep with her roster. Next 8 days are going to be a grind for this team.
 
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JDuro said:
Season definitely starts today and SD a very scary team to face, especially in their own backyard. I put the Coyotes in my Boneyard Top 25 (as well as the Zags). I’ll say Dawn will go 9 deep with her roster. Next 8 days are going to be a grind for this team.
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Ninth player not seen yet. Nor 8th
 
Gamecocks struggling with the yotes at the moment down 31-27
 
More bad FT shooting by SC. Need to convert the bunnies. Can’t expect SD to continue to shoot poorly from the arc.
 
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Destanni 19 pts, 9 rebs, 3 ast. Henny showing she got this PG1 spot.
 
81-71 tough out again.

thank you ‘Yotes.

time to put away all those newspaper clippings, preseason number 1s and AA lists. Time to play basketball
 
visitingcock said:
time to put away all those newspaper clippings, preseason number 1s and AA lists. Time to play basketball
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Yep!
Hope Victaria is alright and they just kept her our for precautionary reasons.
Wonder if Lele was suspended for the 1st half.
Aliyah 2 for 2 in playing bad in first games of an MTE.

SC going to need to play MUCH better in these next 3 games if they hope to stay #1.
 
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visitingcock said:
I intend to do a monthly Gamecock thread.

Dear Huskies: Thank you for this board! I expect many of you will visit this month's thread due to no UConn games for the next couple of weeks. As the season progresses, we may pick up more Gamecock fans that are not regulars. I will try to keep them in line. I do not want the thread(s) to turn into garbage argument threads. Please keep in mind that we are NOT UConn. Nobody is. We act differently and carry a newbie chip on our shoulders. Yes, we want a banner for last year. We understand that it was not a championship. We just want to honor that team, particularly the now-departed seniors. We are not like UConn fans. We do not have decades of dominance in our history.

Dear Gamecocks: We are visitors. Respect our hosts. Remember, they don't understand us. Plus, they are extremely disappointed in not being able to watch their team at this time.

With that said, we will (probably) begin our quest at noon tomorrow on SECN against CoC.

GO GAMECOCKS!

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Nice back-to-back-to-back with S. Dakota, OK, and Gonzaga, then a short breather before NC State...
 
The CDR-Ret said:
Nice back-to-back-to-back with S. Dakota, OK, and Gonzaga, then a short breather before NC State...
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...followed 3 days later by trip to Ames to face Iowa St. :eek:
(Oklahoma was cancelled btw)
 
Coach not only still going deep with her bench, but still willing to experiment while playing a top 25 caliber team, to figure out her squad for when it truly matters.

 
This team is very, very good. They need to gel and figure out rotations, but I think they are deeper than last year. Russell was an absolute steal in this class. LA is going to get a LOT of minutes. She is fun to watch. Aaliyah isn’t playing with the freeness she did last year, needs to quit trying to do too much. Defense needs to tighten up. We aren’t switching on screens. Hope we get to finish a season, even though it may be crazy. Nuts to think we will add 3 Top5 recruits plus Hall next year and only have 1 Sr. on this team.
 
Amihere is going to have a big year. Us fans saw this coming from a mile away, but it’s nice to see her getting more and more comfortable out there. Boston is playing tight, she just needs to loosen up and remember who she is. She will. Russell is an absolute steal.. she can do everything at the guard spot. A true combo-guard. Not a SG pretending at PG and vice versa. Zia and Destanni are going to be a lethal backcourt this season and next. With our post players getting the most attention, they will have opportunities to score. I can see both averaging over 15 ppg.
 
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Well...I will admit when I am wrong. This South Carolina team is not better than last years. I am not even sure they are No. 1 at this point....in fact...I will say they are not.
 
79-72 final in Hack-a-Cock.

Dawn, make em shoot 100 free throwseach before they get on the plane for home. Destabilize can watch them
 
They’re #1 until someone knocks them out, which is possible this coming week given the tough schedule they are in the middle of. But I’ll give them credit as they’ve gone more than half way across the country and beat a ranked team and one who will be in the not too distant future. I can’t think of any team who I would elevate and I’m certainly not going to move some team #1 for beating up on lesser competition. SC already did that themselves to start the season.

If this team was going to be vulnerable, it was going to be early in the season as this team is still transitioning without Ty and Kiki and Dawn is still playing with her rotations. Free throws are killing this team, something that definitely needs to improve. If there’s one glaring way that we miss Ty (85%) and Kiki (83%), it’s definitely FT shooting.

I posted on Twitter that I wouldn’t surprise me if Destanni plays herself on to these season ending PG awards lists and she’s not letting me down. Playing really well taking over Ty’s spot. Named Tournament MVP.
 
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