2024-2025 WBB Team (2022-present)
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Yet you felt the need to come in this thread and add nothing got it.
You know the saying, it's hard to beat a team 3 times. Especially when you play them 3 times in the course of 3 weeks. A very emotional game, less than 24 hours to finish it.
Whatever i added was enough to rustle your jimmies apparently. Sorry for that.
Better to win than to lose, but our recent form is disturbing. Either we will regain our dominant impetus or not grab the brass ring. How many teams have had winning streaks like ours two years in a row and wound up as bridesmaids? We've got to regain our earlier leverage.
I like Tessa Johnson as a player, but didn’t understand her matching up with Rickea Jackson. Jackson is naturally bigger and has 4-5 years in a college training program. Too much to ask of Johnson at this time. Also didn’t like the switching with Cardoso in drop coverage. I would have preferred a show and have our guards fight over. Our guards were just laying on screens. That’s one aspect of the modern game I do not like. Teams depend on switching too much and it causes mismatches all over the court. This is not just a Women’s College Basketball thing. This is an issue on all levels. Better to rant about defense after a win though.
I would rather be the team to have won 2 going into the third game than the other way around. Never really understood that saying. I have been on both ends of that equation back in my younger days....
We literally lost in the SEC tournament 2 years ago and still grabbed the brass ring.
In the grand scheme of things, this game was not that important. Of course, you want to win any time you lace them up. However, we are locked in as the #1 overall seed in the tournament. It would have been similar to the Kentucky loss two years ago. Aggravating, but an impetus to take care of business in the tournament.
So this is your second post on this thread. The first was to taunt the board after the loss to Iowa. You sir are an A$$hole
Please never come back.
I don't think he's kin to the late, great Carolina Jones.So this is your second post on this thread. The first was to taunt the board after the loss to Iowa. You sir are an A$$hole
Giving up a 23-point lead in a friendly environment is concerning. What bothers me is is our offensive output in the clutch. To use the modern vernacular, we just stopped "scoring" the ball.
Agreed, it wasn't that important for us. However, it definitely was for Tennessee. What a devastating loss.
This Ole Miss/LSU game is wild. Bodies lying all over the floor. The officials are really let them play. Our first 2 games have been free throw shooting contest. Appropriately, UT lost the game because they couldn't hit free throws in the clutch.
And won it last year, but didn't. Using that logic, I'm not going to concern myself about tomorrow's game and should not have cared one way or the other about this one - or even how we played, for that matter. Not too many teams get to go undefeated. The ones that do take their places in the highest pantheon of their sport. Is it wrong to want that?We literally lost in the SEC tournament 2 years ago and still grabbed the brass ring.
Fulwiley needs to play more. Yes, Dawn thinks Freshman need to sit and learn, but she is the most talented offensive player we have. She can create when the defense shuts down the set you tried to run. That will happen more as the competition stiffens.
We've reached the point where the "dawgs" have to have all the minutes. We have enough "dawgs" to keep people rested.
Undefeated takes care of that. After tomorrow, provided we win, it's the only thing that WILL take care of that.
Ad hominem attack aside, may I suggest the "ignore" button if my opinions are too agitating for your delicate palate?So this is your second post on this thread. The first was to taunt the board after the loss to Iowa. You sir are an A$$hole
Cause people still have the right to express their opinion even if others disagree.
We agree on this point. We're not climbing Mt Everest. Everyone should be rested enough to play a basketball game.
I’ve never understood that saying either. I can only assume the principle is that by the third time a team has figured out the other’s game plan and tactics? Ok, fine, but doesn’t that also apply to the other side as well?
Kellie Harper's face expressed it all.
I remember one season Notre Dame entered the NCAA Championship game undefeated, beating UCONN 3 times that season in the process.
Who did they face in the Championship Game? UCONN, of course. And the Irish lost.
Going undefeated and losing only one game in the tournament only happens to the great ones like Geno, Muffin and Dawn because they are the only coaches going into the tournament undefeated.
Dawn's last second instructions were for Cardoso to take the 3, the first of her career, as she would be the only one not tightly defended. Another wise Gamecock coaching decision.
www.espn.com
Cardoso's first career 3 rescues No. 1 Gamecocks
Kamilla Cardoso banked in her first-ever 3-pointer at the buzzer and extended No. 1 South Carolina's perfect season with a 74-73 victory over Tennessee at the Southeastern Conference tournament semifinals on Saturday.
www.espn.com
This is where I sit, and I'm not making it much more analytical than this. Dawn has two championships. That Dime Store Queen has four. They should be at least knotted up in my opinion. I want Dawn to close on her and overtake her. Last year was devastating because of the team we had and how superior we were to the team the Queen had. That's personal with me. It might not matter to anyone else.
Not ad hominem,(talk about being delicate, projection is such a wonder ego defense)just a truthful accounting of your interactions on this thread and of your character in those interactions.
Rather ironic of you advising someone to use the ignore option. You should use it yourself. Instead you only show up on this thread to insult or troll bad news.
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I think it's called tempting fate. Statistically, if you have a 90% chance of beating a team and you play them 10 times, they are probably going to beat you once. If you keep playing a good team like Tennessee over and over, it'll probably take a lot less than 10 games before they grab one. I hope we don't have to play them a 4th time this year.
That will be a tough pill to swallow two years in a row.
UCONN lost as an undefeated in the Final Four in back-to-back years. Remember when all the haters said Dawn was "lucky" to win in 2017 because Miss State beat UCONN? Last year Carolina was a terrible matchup for LSU, but Mulkey got "lucky" and we lost in the semis. The elite coaches just produce excellent teams year in and year out and some years things go there way in the tournament, so years they don't. The same 4 coaches win the national championship every year for a reason. Hopefully this is Dawn's year.
I'll continue to opine as I please. You, likewise, can do as you wish. If you feel the need to redress "my character" instead of my literal posts (the definition of ad hominem) please regard me as Sir, A$$hole from now on. I'm happy to settle for common ground.
Survive and advance and to those who post criticism of the uniforms today or the game was unwatchable stfu!!! In the words of Slick Ric Flair wooooo! Whether you like or don't like it learn to love because USC basketball is the best thing going today baby!
Very awful injury to pao from LSU. She tried to take a charge and hit her head on the court. She couldn’t stand up. It took forever for staff to come check on her . That was awful.
Someone fire the LSU training staff. Why did they let the LSU players yank up her off the floor?
You've hit on another thing upon which we can agree. I consider it essential, even if there will be other seasons. There won't be many other seasons for someone my age.
They didn’t even seem to care at first . I was embarrassed for them.