The inspiration for MiLaysia's magic? A video game? Seriously?
South Carolina sophomore sensation MiLaysia Fulwiley was deep in her bag of tricks on Thursday showing off a wide array of her patented crowd-pleasing moves as part of the Gamecocks’ 95-55 blowout win over Arkansas.
Fulwiley has been wowing college basketball fans since literally her first game in the Garnet and Black when she smoothly went behind her back on national TV in South Carolina’s season opener last year in Paris — and even before that locally when she brought down the rafters in front of packed gyms at nearby Keenan High School.
But where does Fulwiley get the inspiration for all of her unique, creative moves? She revealed the unlikely source during an interview with the SEC Now crew of Alyssa Lang, Nikki Fargas, and Steffi Sorenson.
“2K,” Fulwiley said referring to the popular NBA2K video game series.
Seriously?
“Seriously. I play 2K a lot,” Fulwiley said. “My My Player (created player on the game), he does a lot of good moves, so I just kind of redo those moves in a game and it works out. Today I don’t know how I made most of those shots but it went in so thank you.”
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The shots were definitely falling for Fulwiley who had 15 points, four rebounds, and four assists in Thursday’s win.
Perhaps just as important, she sparked the crowd and her team with several dazzling plays including an alley-oop lay-in, a reenactment of her behind-the-back play in Paris that went for an and-one, and a beautiful spin move in traffic that resulted in an assist to Sania Feagin at the end of the half.
But back to that 2K thing…
“My player is a Kevin Durant-style player,” Fulwiley explained. “I’m going to start playing with my teammates. They just got their PS5s. They’ve got to send me their usernames. But I really just watch a lot of basketball and play a lot of basketball and just try to recreate those things myself.”
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Fulwiley says it so nonchalantly that it may be easy for just a moment to forget just how impressive it is that she can so effortlessly take what she’s seeing in the virtual world and translate it to the real court.
There are few women’s basketball players on the planet with the athleticism, dexterity, and guts to attempt, let alone actually pull off, some of the things Fulwiley does on a game-to-game basis.
But it’s still fun to think about her seeing a move in the video game and then translating it to real life in front of 1,000s of people.
“I do a lot of passes, I do a lot of layups, and everything on 2K, really,” Fulwiley said. “I try new things out and I try to see if my player can make it. He’s not really good yet, so I’m trying to get him there. I play a lot of 2K with my cousin and he just tells me, ‘Shoot it’ or ‘do this’ and I try to tell myself in the (real) game, just do it, just play.”
