So Carolina's Conditioning Coach.

[msf22b]

- After watching the SC bigs evaporate under the relentless pressure of UConn's transition game this past February, nothing short of a miraculous physical transformation by Coates, Wilson, White, Dozier and Imovbioh will change things very much.
-Sessions, Cuevas and Mitchell can run like the wind, but they'll be off to the races by themselves, leaving their huge front line far behind (despite Wilson fancying herself a guard).
-SC's frontcourt players are really big, but lumbering and plodding- their abilities (and limitations) far better suited for the half court, dump-it-into-the-paint, low post game. Yes, they'll be much bigger and taller than almost all of their opponents, and maybe even a tad quicker and better conditioned, but as a team, they'll never run with UConn.

While they're at it, Staley should also grab Stu Singer, Maryland WBB's "performance enhancement coach," whose job it is "to help keep players' minds in the right place." Hmm, how'd that work for the Terps last year?

I thought Maryland was supposed to have had a fine season.
Re-writing history?

 

[reno tony]

Since I haven't watched as many Maryland games as most of you, I am not able to analyze their style and speak of all their flaws like many of the BY experts. But what I can say is I have been to the last two Final Fours and so has Maryland. So my simple discombobulated analysis is they must be doing something right. And any addition to the SC squad from a successful program should only help. IMHO of course.

 

[Gamecockfan77]

- After watching the SC bigs evaporate under the relentless pressure of UConn's transition game this past February, nothing short of a miraculous physical transformation by Coates, Wilson, White, Dozier and Imovbioh will change things very much.
-Sessions, Cuevas and Mitchell can run like the wind, but they'll be off to the races by themselves, leaving their huge front line far behind (despite Wilson fancying herself a guard).
-SC's frontcourt players are really big, but lumbering and plodding- their abilities (and limitations) far better suited for the half court, dump-it-into-the-paint, low post game. Yes, they'll be much bigger and taller than almost all of their opponents, and maybe even a tad quicker and better conditioned, but as a team, they'll never run with UConn.

While they're at it, Staley should also grab Stu Singer, Maryland WBB's "performance enhancement coach," whose job it is "to help keep players' minds in the right place." Hmm, how'd that work for the Terps last year?

Well, I'm a little late to the thread, but you are discussing South Carolina so I thought I'd comment.

1. South Carolina hires a strength coach who says she intends to get the team in better condition and play fast. I'm not really sure how you concluded from reading the article that it would not result in better overall conditioning. The article clearly points out they they do a lot of running and other conditioning. If follows that if she actually is stepping things up from prior regime that conditioning will improve.

2. While I certainly agree that UConn had a better team in 2015 than South Carolina did and that Coates and Wilson struggled in the game at Stoors, I'm not really sure how you concluded that Coates and Wilson are plodding or unable to get out on the floor. Having watched the U-19s and the Pan Am games, it was pretty evident that Wilson and Coates are among the best athletes at their position in the women's game. I would describe neither as plodding. Having said that, I did want to point out how good I think Breanna Stewart, Moriah Jefferson, and Dangerfield were in those tournaments. Stewart has an all around game that neither Wilson nor Coates can match at this point in time.

3. I think the idea is that South Carolina will go forward with against in 2015 is playing 10+ players and running weaker teams into the ground. And get in better shape for the tournament. Coates in particular can use the extra endurance, but she certainly can get up and down the court as well or better as most comparably sized players.

4. I don't think Carolina's 3 losses had a whole lot to do with deficiencies in the post. I think the problem was on the perimeter. A lack of shooters allowed better teams to collapse on the bigs, which made it tougher to operate. Additionally, against UConn particularly the big girl's three pointers..Mosqueda Lewis... kind of broke it open. Carolina was good enough at three positions to match up with UConn but was really outmatched at PG and SG/SF (the wing that was not Mitchell).

5. It remains to be seen how much progress Carolina will make at those guard spots this year. But there is decent chance that Wilson will make a big leap. We'll see. She still has a ways to go based on the U-19, but she looked totally comfortable being focal point of offense, I thought.