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Week 12 - Jan 22 to 28

LSU had a great shot. They needed a bunch of things to go well for them, and about 80% of them did. What they couldn't afford was for Reese to foul out and barely play in 4Q and for Williams to have a bad shooting night. And they could't afford those boneheaded mistakes at ends of quarters.

A game like this is where the disappearance of Poole and the injury to Smith really hurts. LSU just doesn't have the depth. Reese still isn't in game shape and it showed in both her fatigue and her mental mistakes.

Morrow was fantastic, what a player. LSU rebounded the ball extremely well, especially in the 1st half.
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
if you look at the box for SCar everyone kind of had a good game. it was like they were doing it in shifts. Stressful.
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What was crazy is it also seemed like everyone on SCar also had bad/quiet games.

Cardoso, Watkins I thought were just bad in the first half. PaoPao and B. Hall were quiet. Kitts was everywhere. Raven was solid. Feagin was both good and bad. Fulwiley came in and made her mark in no time.

Then second half: Cardoso comes alive. Paopao and Hall make a lot of noise and huge shots. Kitts goes quiet. Fulwiley doesn't see much time. Watkins suddenly back in game and makes big plays at end.
 
If anyone needs a nightcap to put them to sleep after that thriller of a game, there’s a matchup between two Big West basement dwellers on ESPN+. CSU Bakersfield (1-6) vs CSU Northridge (0-6).

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bbsamjj said:
What was crazy is it also seemed like everyone on SCar also had bad/quiet games.

Cardoso, Watkins I thought were just bad in the first half. PaoPao and B. Hall were quiet. Kitts was everywhere. Raven was solid. Feagin was both good and bad. Fulwiley came in and made her mark in no time.

Then second half: Cardoso comes alive. Paopao and Hall make a lot of noise and huge shots. Kitts goes quiet. Fulwiley doesn't see much time. Watkins suddenly back in game and makes big plays at end.
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Agree with all that.
 
cancontent said:
I really don't understand how it was assumed the South Carolina was going to run away with it. The team is good, but they're not infallible. They've had games this season where they should have won handily.

LSU's lack of depth is their weak spot. Losing one of their key players for the season didn't help matters. This will be their challenge all season. Del Rosario did much better than expected tonight. They're going to need more of that from her.
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That poster believes SC is gonna go undefeated and beat everyone by at least 20
 
cancontent said:
I really don't understand how it was assumed the South Carolina was going to run away with it. The team is good, but they're not infallible. They've had games this season where they should have won handily.

LSU's lack of depth is their weak spot. Losing one of their key players for the season didn't help matters. This will be their challenge all season. Del Rosario did much better than expected tonight. They're going to need more of that from her.
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They look infallible to me.
 
I didn't watch the game, have a question for anyone who did. Why did Williams have so many attempted 3s this game? It wasn't like LSU was playing from behind the whole way. She was shooting a very good 44.4% on the season, but 90 attempts in the previous 20 games means she took more than double her usual amount this game. Why? Especially since she wasn't hitting ANY of them?
 
I guess that I was wrong about Dee Kantner reffing the SoCar at LSU game. According to the box score she worked the Kentucky at Arkansas game.
I also saw that Saylor didn't play. Hmm.
 
Well I totally had this game wrong. SC won but LSU could have taken it if they hadn’t thrown good sense out the window. I will get right on revisiting a lot of my assumptions about this season.

In one sense this game was really encouraging, to the extent it showed how tight the coaching window is. It doesn’t take much to turn a game around or to blow a winning hand. WCBB is exciting to watch.
 
CSUB beat CSUN 70-54 in case anyone cares.

UT-Chatt handled UNC-G 70-55 to remain undefeated in the SOCON.
 
Vowelguy said:
If they play again, SC by 20.

LSU gave its best shot, outrebounded SC & shutdown Cardozo for a 1/2 plus had energized crowd, and they still couldn’t do it.

Those LSU lapses at the end of q1 and q2 were critical.

Huge confidence boost for SC
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South Carolina missed a lot of shots right around the basket that they normally would make. LSU had their chance.
 
Vowelguy said:
Nah low basketball IQ is.

How does a veteran get those 2 fouls in the 4th? Especially fouling someone from behind on a layup?!?!?

How does a veteran not wait for the last shot at the end of the quarter?

I knew better when I was 12.
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Both can be true.

Who does Mulkey have as a back up when Van Lith makes mistakes? Poa showed she wasn't capable when she was in. Williams is still learning. When Morrow had to sit most of the first half, they lost a key rebounder who was helping them big time on the offensive glass. Del Rosario did better than expected, but not having Smith hurts them here. And not having Smith forces Mulkey's hand in having to keep Reese out there when she was in foul trouble.

Reese definitely has to make better decisions with respect to fouling. The fourth foul, I'm mixed on it as both she and Cardoso were tied up pretty good. No excuses on the fifth even though that was caused by Van Lith with another bad entry pass.
 
cancontent said:
Both can be true.

Who does Mulkey have as a back up when Van Lith makes mistakes? Poa showed she wasn't capable when she was in. Williams is still learning. When Morrow had to sit most of the first half, they lost a key rebounder who was helping them big time on the offensive glass. Del Rosario did better than expected, but not having Smith hurts them here. And not having Smith forces Mulkey's hand in having to keep Reese out there when she was in foul trouble.

Reese definitely has to make better decisions with respect to fouling. The fourth foul, I'm mixed on it as both she and Cardoso were tied up pretty good. No excuses on the fifth even though that was caused by Van Lith with another bad entry pass.
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Reese had a hand full of jersey on the 4th foul. They probably would’ve went down together anyway but she shouldn’t have grabbed the jersey.

LSU really doesn’t have a backup for Hailey Van Lith. Although they really don’t have a point guard to begin with
 
With last night's win, a mammoth gap between SC and the rest.

The 0.74 point gap is equivalent to the gap between #2 & #22, and between #22 & #69.



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