If she was injured enough to be in a boot, I wonder how she will hold up to playing back to back games. She might be back but I would guess limited minutes
2024-2025 WBB Team (2022-present)
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Shout out to little Andrew Jackson High School for winning the 2A title. They CRUSHED opponents in that classification. They also beat 5A schools like Dorman and Lexington by double digits. They played Camden within 4 points, which is the closest any South Carolina came to beating the Bulldogs. Very impressive.
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Yes, I am surprised he hasnt put out a tweet, misquoting Dawn and then trying to go on his show and make it her fault that he feels attacked by Carolina fans, when he has to admit his error.We should ask Phil Kornblut how he interprets Dawn's "daycare" comment.
My comment about shooting poorly was for yesterday's game only. (I read somewhere in GCC that our shooting % YESTERDAY vs TN was 5% below our previous worst game of the year. I have not confirmed, but suspect that to be accurate.) The sentence which you did not comprehend immediately followed the sentence that "TN played hard" and it was in response to a post about the SEC Network's snide remark on the crawler about not getting a double digit margin of victory vs. TN. I was complementing our team for overcoming a singular poor shooting performance with another W and an undefeated regular season.
No worries king, we probably needed that wake up call, for both the players and the staff, it was preferable to a loss but maybe got the same needed reaction.
Olivia left school early like Chloe did, she will be eligible for the WNBA draft if she chooses next year ( 4 years removed from high school). I said potentially for both Miles and Fudd because they could stay another year or leave if they choose due to medical redshirts.
The thing I took away from CDS’s presser posted above was that this year’s team does not take everything as seriously as last year’s team did, which if you think about it, may be a silver lining if they don’t get encumbered by the whole undefeated thing. Maybe, hope so anyway, always good to stay loose.
Dawn bites backWe should ask Phil Kornblut how he interprets Dawn's "daycare" comment.
He knows better. She also has a “Strong” Twitter game.Exactly. This team plays fierce, and really well together, but they do not play like they have the weight of the world on their shoulders which is what last year's team seemed to do, mostly because they came into the season stating they wanted to go wire to wire undefeated. This team seems like, because of their youth, they are more lighthearted away from the court, thus they have a lot of energy during the games. Kind of like kids who run around all day because they do not know what it feels like to be tired. lol
Paopao returning. Hot O'Mighty!
I guess I can stop sizing up possible guards in the portal. lol
* It's good that we're short on guards this season. Paopao return is unlikely to send anyone to the portal. Tess is Paopao's best friend on the team and Fulwiley is making bank. If Fulwiley's not already making the most NIL money on the team, she will by next year. McDaniel will either return to basketball slowly next season or redshirt.
* We basically traded Saniya Rivers for Paopao. Not directly, of course. But would Te-Hina have transferred here if Rivers was still on the roster? I don't think so. I was, and still am, a big fan of Rivers, but her skill set was too similar to Raven's. It worked out for everyone involved imo. A portal success story.
* I did not criticize Talaysia Cooper for transferring. And those Vol fans who still insist that Cooper always wanted to go to Tennessee but was pressured into coming here are kidding themselves. Cooper saw the writing on the wall during the summer and made what turned out to be a wise decision. No hard feelings.
* It's good that we're short on guards this season. Paopao return is unlikely to send anyone to the portal. Tess is Paopao's best friend on the team and Fulwiley is making bank. If Fulwiley's not already making the most NIL money on the team, she will by next year. McDaniel will either return to basketball slowly next season or redshirt.
* We basically traded Saniya Rivers for Paopao. Not directly, of course. But would Te-Hina have transferred here if Rivers was still on the roster? I don't think so. I was, and still am, a big fan of Rivers, but her skill set was too similar to Raven's. It worked out for everyone involved imo. A portal success story.
* I did not criticize Talaysia Cooper for transferring. And those Vol fans who still insist that Cooper always wanted to go to Tennessee but was pressured into coming here are kidding themselves. Cooper saw the writing on the wall during the summer and made what turned out to be a wise decision. No hard feelings.
This, That and the other
Paopao, just Wow wow! I was so excited about her choosing us. I was very vocal from the start that she was a much better get than HVL.
I love that she and her family have found a basketball home, an outside basketball community and spiritual anchors here in Columbia. They seem to just be wonderful people and they enhance our city and program by much more than points on the scoreboard.
Watch the video from Tehina’s off season work outs. Very dedicated athlete. She knows her weaknesses and attacks them. Another year will make her much more WNBA ready.
5 guards next season. All of them can play PG or SG. Don’t forget Tessa was PG. All have a little something unique.
Dear Sarah Strong,
Fly into the nest. It’s more than just basketball here. It’s mentoring from Dawn and a great staff, it’s 18K loving you on game day, it’s Sandstorm, it’s Sheila Foster, Tiffany Mitchell, A’ja, Boston, it’s the moms and dads of players, it’s Catholic schoolgirls(Watkins), it’s city phenoms(Fulwiley) it’s Samoans, Brazilians, even Minnesotans and Texans. It’s Home.
Paopao, just Wow wow! I was so excited about her choosing us. I was very vocal from the start that she was a much better get than HVL.
I love that she and her family have found a basketball home, an outside basketball community and spiritual anchors here in Columbia. They seem to just be wonderful people and they enhance our city and program by much more than points on the scoreboard.
Watch the video from Tehina’s off season work outs. Very dedicated athlete. She knows her weaknesses and attacks them. Another year will make her much more WNBA ready.
5 guards next season. All of them can play PG or SG. Don’t forget Tessa was PG. All have a little something unique.
Dear Sarah Strong,
Fly into the nest. It’s more than just basketball here. It’s mentoring from Dawn and a great staff, it’s 18K loving you on game day, it’s Sandstorm, it’s Sheila Foster, Tiffany Mitchell, A’ja, Boston, it’s the moms and dads of players, it’s Catholic schoolgirls(Watkins), it’s city phenoms(Fulwiley) it’s Samoans, Brazilians, even Minnesotans and Texans. It’s Home.
I know, it’s TMI, but you asked.
TeHina literally translates as
Te “The” Hina “Moon Godess”Pao has multiple meanings in Polynesian language 1. It is a variety of sweet potato 2. It can mean to rebuke or chastise 3. To strike at or to beat 4. It is finished or complete
TeHina Paopao- The Moon Goddess who completes us! That might be a fair translation. She is the youngest and only daughter in her family, I do believe.
Hina: Ancestral Moon Goddess
Hina – the goddess most widely recognized across Polynesia – features in several mythologies across the region. She was given many different identities and powers and it can be difficult to identify a single Hina in Hawaiian mythology. But she is most commonly associated with the moon and is recognized as the opposite of her husband (and brother) Kū.The name Hina in Other Polynesian translations suggest that Hina means silver-gray and in the Hawaiian language Mahina means moon.
As goddess of the moon, Hina protects travelers at night – a responsibility which gave her the additional name Hina-nui-te-araara (Great Hina the Watchwoman).
She is also the patroness of tapa cloth beaters – a cloth made from tree bark – as she created the first tapa cloth. Invocations were made to Hina before work began and she would watch over the beaters who worked their tapa cloths under the light of the moon.
Her final major association (though she had many) is linked directly with her husband Kū – Hina is associated with female fertility and Kū with male fertility.
Hina, like Kāne, Lono, and Kū, was said to be a primordial deity who had existed for eternity and had changed form many times – she had been there when Kāne, Lono, and Kū had brought light to shine on the world. She was said to have been the first to arrive on the Hawaiian islands, even before Kāne and Lono.
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@winloseortie you amaze me!
Question - are the SEC awards coming out today? Based on these footnotes they are due the tuesday before the tournament?
Question - are the SEC awards coming out today? Based on these footnotes they are due the tuesday before the tournament?
I'm pretty sure it's today. Not sure what time though.
If Walker returns, we'll be at 13 for next season. Add Sarah Strong too and we'll be at 14.
I’m
POY Barbie
FOY Williams, not my choice but she wins
6th Watkins but Correa UF if she did not start too many games is a possibility
All D Not sure if there is DPOY- Watkins
Watkins
Cardoso
Dembele Mizzou
Cambridge Vandy
Scott OM
ALL SEC usually 8 and not by position I put 9
Barbie
Cardoso
Honesty Scott-Grayson Auburn
Barker Bama
Morrow the Barbies
Rickea UT she may miss out because of injury
Jordan Miss st
Nicholson UGA
Scott OM
Most improved player is not given but if it were
Petty UK. Kitts would be runner up
ALL FRESHMAN
Williams LSU
Fulwiley
Scott Ark
Slaughter Mizzou
Cody Bama
Pierre Vandy
Quite frankly she is not eligible but Chloe Kitts deserves at least a mention
off the top of my head
POY Barbie
FOY Williams, not my choice but she wins
6th Watkins but Correa UF if she did not start too many games is a possibility
All D Not sure if there is DPOY- Watkins
Watkins
Cardoso
Dembele Mizzou
Cambridge Vandy
Scott OM
ALL SEC usually 8 and not by position I put 9
Barbie
Cardoso
Honesty Scott-Grayson Auburn
Barker Bama
Morrow the Barbies
Rickea UT she may miss out because of injury
Jordan Miss st
Nicholson UGA
Scott OM
Most improved player is not given but if it were
Petty UK. Kitts would be runner up
ALL FRESHMAN
Williams LSU
Fulwiley
Scott Ark
Slaughter Mizzou
Cody Bama
Pierre Vandy
Quite frankly she is not eligible but Chloe Kitts deserves at least a mention
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Love his introduction. Enjoy this while you can because we're unlikely to experience a Gamecock team this consistently outstanding for this long ever again.
Disappointed for Ashlyn Watkins missing out on the 6th Player of the Year. Hope to see great things from her in the next month and watch out for next year. She is a worker and will be a beast.
There are some things I would have changed but Ashlyn Watkins not on the all defensive team is ridiculous.
So the best player off the bench for one of the worst teams gets 6th player of the year? Something about that doesnt make much sense to me. I know she was a pretty good player but 6ht player is supposed to be the one who comes in and reignites or keeps things going. You cant reignite what never got going nor can you keep something going that never started which both of those represent Florida this year.
Oh well, another time of nothing making sense. Also best overall team that never lost still gets little respect for its players. It shows how more important it is to be a great TEAM than a group of people with one great player.
Oh well, another time of nothing making sense. Also best overall team that never lost still gets little respect for its players. It shows how more important it is to be a great TEAM than a group of people with one great player.
This to me is a gyp. But if she stays the course, she will be a premier player in the SEC and beyond. She has wonderful skills already .
I would also say that Tessa Johnson made more of an impact that Del Rosario did as freshman but yet she doesnt make the freshman team. Del Rosario barely played more than usually 6-7 minutes a game and did little while in there. Watkins not on defensive team is a crime. I really hope she shows out in an insane way in Conf tournament. She should show out all the way and get tournament MVP.
SEC coaches just made Ashlyn Watkins angry. SEC coaches will not like angry Ashlyn Watkins.
Re 6th Woman of the year. There seemed to be two deserving players, but I would have given it to Watkins:
Florida player's stats were solid: FL player averaged 30 min (off the bench), 17.9 points, and 4.1 rebounds/game, and had 38 steals and 13 blocked shots
Ashlyn averaged 20 minutes, 10 points and 7.2 rebounds/gm. She had 36 steals and 70 blocked shots. The blocked shots and rebounding in a lot less minutes should tip the scales in favor of Watkins. Of course, Watkins scoring would have been higher with more minutes, too.
There are not many players in the league I would take over Watkins right now. Of the current players at USC, she would be my first draft pick for the USC team next year.
Florida player's stats were solid: FL player averaged 30 min (off the bench), 17.9 points, and 4.1 rebounds/game, and had 38 steals and 13 blocked shots
Ashlyn averaged 20 minutes, 10 points and 7.2 rebounds/gm. She had 36 steals and 70 blocked shots. The blocked shots and rebounding in a lot less minutes should tip the scales in favor of Watkins. Of course, Watkins scoring would have been higher with more minutes, too.
There are not many players in the league I would take over Watkins right now. Of the current players at USC, she would be my first draft pick for the USC team next year.
That jumped out to me as well! Plus, nothing ADR does really stands out, but Tessa's 46.3% 3-point shooting is actually really good nationwide for all players, not just freshmen. How does a conference not recognize that???
You feel for our players, since a lot of them obviously deserve the recognition. But let’s be real, the conference just provided our team with more bulletin board material just in time for postseason play. Is that really a bad thing? I think not.
No Tessa on all Frosh squad? What a joke .
The only things I saw that ADR was good at was being tall & how to flop and not get the call.