SEC 25-26

[Bone Dog]

I don't disagree with your statement and I'm not sure what I said that would be contradictory to what you are saying.

For Joyce, I'm basing what my eyes saw while watching her play 3x3 in Arizona. I wasn't basing anything off her performance as a freshman. She also was 1-3 from 3 in the AmeriCup FWIW. I tried to find her stats from 3x3 but was unsuccessful.

For Chole, I think we're just arguing semantics here. In previous years, Coach Staley hasn't encouraged the 3 from our bigs but her stance has been changing. In fact she encouraged it more last season but only Kitts and Dauda took advantage. Based on what I've been able to infer from the players, it seems like she is pushing them to take more next season. With that said, I highly doubt they'll be expecting to take more perimeter shots than the guards. My expectation is that Coach Staley just wants them to be a big enough 3 point threat to pull their defenders out of the paint, much like Chole did this past season. I don't know where you inferred that I was insinuating that our frontcourt was going to be the "great hope" from the perimeter, so I just am chalking it up to our different interpretations of what I previously wrote.

I hear you. I didn’t mean to argue. I was just reflecting on something your post suggested to me. I have to admit to being fascinated by SC over the last couple seasons, even though I’m a UConn fan. Dawn, of course, has really impressed me in what she’s accomplished in the time since A’ja graduated. She built a dominant program and sustained it. But last season posed significant challenges to her and this coming season seems likely to do the same, and I can hardly wait to see what she figures out to keep SC’s dominance going. It will be fun to watch what happens to UConn, but it is likely to be as much fun to watch whatbSC can accomplish this season.

 

[GamecockFam]

I hear you. I didn’t mean to argue. I was just reflecting on something your post suggested to me. I have to admit to being fascinated by SC over the last couple seasons, even though I’m a UConn fan. Dawn, of course, has really impressed me in what she’s accomplished in the time since A’ja graduated. She built a dominant program and sustained it. But last season posed significant challenges to her and this coming season seems likely to do the same, and I can hardly wait to see what she figures out to keep SC’s dominance going. It will be fun to watch what happens to UConn, but it is likely to be as much fun to watch whatbSC can accomplish this season.

I expect she'll use Latson much like Tiffany Mitchell in 2014-2015/2016 and then use our frontcourt depth to wear teams out. Raven will be the court general and Tessa will keep teams from double teaming our forwards by spraying 3s from the wing. Now that I think on it, I think that blend will look a lot like the Indiana Fever this season without Clark.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

I expect she'll use Latson much like Tiffany Mitchell in 2014-2015/2016 and then use our frontcourt depth to wear teams out. Raven will be the court general and Tessa will keep teams from double teaming our forwards by spraying 3s from the wing. Now that I think on it, I think that blend will look a lot like the Indiana Fever this season without Clark.

I don't think it is p too hard to picture the role for Latson. We've seen it several times recently.

Her usage at FSU was right in line with Zia Cooke and Fulwiley at SCar. She will likely pass a little more and play fewer minutes than she did at FSU (though she passed quite a bit).

But I think we know what she should look like, in terms of touches but most likely she will look better on offense than we saw SCar guards look last year.

Roster wise :SCar had two losses from last year: Fulwiley and Feagin.

Latson is a better player than Fulwiley was last year. Hands down. Fulwiley might well explode this year, I don't know, but that's not what Latson is replacing.

The other loss is Feagin and it's possible there might be some pain there, but SCar will be a much bigger team in any event and will be extremely deep in the frontcourt. I'd wager they will be better. Maybe a lot better.

Now, the season after this one is a little scary when you think about possible depth charts (hey, but we should get back Watkins so no doubt UConn fans will make us the prohibitive favorite) but there is just no reason to expect SCar to at all struggle much come this November.

I'm not sure they will be the best team in the country, but top 2 or 3 seems very likely.

But strange things happen so you never know. And USC is more vulnerable to backcourt injuries as the depth is young.

 

[Bone Dog]

Roster wise :SCar had two losses from last year: Fulwiley and Feagin.

Bree Hall? Her offensive production may have dipped slightly in this last season, but she was a season long starter and ended up drafted into the W. I’ve always thought of Bree as the classic type of player Dawn favors: long, quick and athletic. And she brought some intangibles as an intimidator of smaller guards.

Tessa will more than make up for Bree’s offensive production, I expect. But I wonder if she’ll bring the same defensive intangibles. Maybe. I’ve followed her since high school and thought she was in incredible find for Dawn. This season is her moment to really step up and prove herself.