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Message: [QUOTE="Rb335, post: 4276050, member: 2685"] It’s tough to lose when you are that close to the finish line. I see a lot of frustration with how our rotations changed as the team got healthy, and I agree to some extent. The new starting lineup seemed consistently flat, and regressed at times to waiting for Paige to make something happen. But this “new lineup” played a majority of the minutes and provided us our two marquee wins of the entire season. Back to back upsets of 1 seeds. So that lineup did achieve two great wins for us. South Carolina was just better, and the luck didn’t fall our way. My only complaint was trying to force our new starting lineup to work when it didn’t matchup well. Fudd was clearly not able to go, and had multiple missed assignments defensively to start the game. That definitely contributed to the early defect. We found a lineup that cut into the lead in Q2, and I think the tactical mistake was going away from that to start the second half. We needed to come out and close the gap, which we didn’t. Dug a bigger hole for when our effective lineup resumed and once again went on a run. It’s demoralizing to go on a 10-0 run and still be down 6. We lost this game in the first 5 minutes of both halves. I don’t think either way we would have won, we were overmatched, which is credit to South Carolina. But I come away wishing we could’ve put pressure on them by coming out of halftime with a sense of urgency. [/QUOTE]