Texas A&M Beatdown Exposes Multiple Issues For South Carolina

South Carolina head males’s basketball coach Lamont Paris admitted within the preseason that there could be some difficult video games in his first season in Columbia. 

Nonetheless, I do not consider a fan might’ve anticipated any recreation to happen because the final two house video games have. Up to now two video games towards the Tennessee Volunteers and Texas A&M Aggies, the Gamecocks have been outscored 179-95, with Carolina not having the ability to get out the beginning gate in both recreation.

Concerning issues that should be addressed by South Carolina, there appear to be three foremost issues that’ve created the right storm for these defeats; effort, confidence, and a capability to play inside the system. Within the Texas A&M loss, the Aggies secured 32 extra rebounds than the Gamecocks. 

Whereas Hayden Brown’s absence actually did not assist this space, moreover positioning and timing, rebounding is basically considered as a facet of the sport outlined by effort. It is truthful to say that, at occasions, South Carolina is not constant on this division.

Towards Tennessee and Texas A&M, South Carolina went down by a double-digit margin inside the recreation’s first 5 minutes. In an ideal world for Paris, he want to have 5 gamers who shoot the basketball, most of whom can create their shot. 

Nobody lacks confidence, and proper now, the Gamecocks do not examine any of those bins, and the problems are compounded as a result of bench not possessing sufficient high quality depth for these grueling SEC affairs.

Paris stated at a press convention earlier within the season that in sports activities like basketball, there is a distinction between enjoying nicely and performing nicely. Taking part in nicely means the athletes have performed all the pieces accurately to place themselves in the precise place whereas performing nicely means the participant can execute when wanted. 

Presently, South Carolina can not do both of this stuff constantly. With fourteen convention video games remaining, the street of self-introspection and correction is not going to get any simpler.

South Carolina will retake the ground on the Colonial Life Area on Tuesday evening towards an Ole Miss squad that is but to greatest a single convention foe, an ideal likelihood for the Gamecocks to get again on observe.

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