South Carolina’s Win Over Kentucky Is a Win For Paris’s Process

Final Saturday, South Carolina endured one among their worst losses in program historical past, as they misplaced by 43 factors en path to their worst defeat since becoming a member of the SEC and their worst loss within the Colonial Life Enviornment in fifteen years. 

I believe it is important to acknowledge how typically these losses have fully derailed a workforce’s season. The Tennessee debacle may have brought about utter chaos within the locker room, a breakdown in workforce morale, and set the stage for early roster defections. 

The beating South Carolina suffered by the hands of the Volunteers gave the workforce two totally different choices; ship it in for the remainder of the season or come again and, at a naked minimal, struggle for his or her collective pleasure. Head coach Lamont Paris’ squad selected the latter. 

They walked into Rupp Enviornment on Tuesday evening, a spot that is been fairly unkind to the Gamecocks, who solely had two all-time wins within the constructing heading into the competition, and secured a surprising wire-to-wire upset win over Kentucky. 

South Carolina set the tone offensively with an aggressive mindset by way of how the sport performed out. Meechie Johnson noticed the ground remarkably effectively and was an inside-outside scoring menace the Wildcats needed to respect, which additionally opened the door for his teammates to get open seems. 

Defensively, the Gamecocks could not shut down Kentucky massive man Oscar Tshiebwe however managed to sluggish him down sufficient and pressure the Wildcats to search out factors from different areas of the ground, which on the finish of the day wasn’t adequate from John Calipari’s squad. 

The largest story popping out of this sport needs to be what this efficiency signifies by way of Lamont Paris’ plan for this program, which he is said a number of occasions would base on a growth-centric course of. This was an unbelievable teaching job by a first-year workers going by means of their first season within the meat grinder that’s the SEC with a roster they might possible admit is lower than splendid for what they wish to do holistically as a workforce.

There is no doubt that the Tennessee sport most likely will not be the final time the Gamecocks lose in blowout trend, as they are going to play video games the place they will be fully outmatched from an expertise and roster standpoint. If that signifies that the workforce will proceed to discover ways to reply to such adversity on this trend, I believe it’ll make for a season that exceeds general expectations.

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