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South Carolina’s basketball “punk” in Texas. What should you learn from the first loss of SEC – Greenville News

South Carolina’s basketball “punk” in Texas. What should you learn from the first loss of SEC – Greenville News

Austin, Texas – one point felt like a marathon.

In front of a crowd of 10,000 people roaring, a team that had not lost a game in a regular 2021 season seemed to have no idea how to score.

Related result, then the texas lead. Game with one point, then Texas makes three. It was a model that South Carolina’s female basketball could not get out of and eventually cost him the game.

№2 Gamecocks (22-2, 10-1 SEC) fell 66-62 to No. 6 Longhorns (24-2, 10-1) in a strong center of Moody on Sunday afternoon, giving the first team of dawn coach the first You lose at the season conference, the first loss in 17 games and the first loss from a regular season in SEC in 57 games.

The other loss this season was No. 1 UCLA on November 24th.

“We were fighting,” Staley said. “We have been fighting in this particular game. There are some things we can definitely get better at. This type of game, you are just trying to survive, you really can’t run your crimes and players just have to play … This is an unfamiliar territory to us … The Law of Average values ​​say that at one point someone will bring you.

The best way to control its own fate is to evaluate the ball better in insult.

Texas protection deserves enough merits for his ability to break the flow of South Carolina crime, although the guilt may be on Gamecocks. In the second quarter, the inertia shifted as Longhorns made more baskets and a half -court set seemed striking to perform South Carolina.

The last bucket of the first quarter lasted at 12-2 runs in the second quarter for Texas, while the 3-indicator of Te-Hina Paopao temporarily stopped bleeding. At halftime, South Carolina fired 36% and had seven turnover.

After running 6-0 to start the third, Gamecocks turned it back into a nearby game, but they never returned the lead, because many of the chances they received, they wereted. After a bounce, as he lags behind, Raven Johnson took a 32-second clock-in-the-clock angle instead of a potentially driving to the basket for a higher percentage.

After South Carolina lags behind two, Texas missed two free throws. In the next possession, Milalisa Fulvilly started an early 3-indicator who had no chance. Immediately after, another empty trip to Texas gave another chance to South Carolina to lead, but Johnson started 3-indicated in the same place.

Two empty trips with a lack of ball movement in the game decided with four points.

“Sometimes we can become comfortable, smugly. I have the feeling that it happened today,” Paopa said. “We just have to be better as a team.”

Putless gaps, drilling on the move and willingness to trade in baskets, wrote the story on Sunday. If South Carolina will win its second consecutive NCAA Championship, it cannot continue.

After poor offensive display against Ucla, Gamecocks won 17 straight. Repeating this type of running begins with a better movement of the ball. Tournament games often come down to a court trip.

“This is just another opportunity to train for us,” Paopoa said. “From UCLA, we learned that we should be difficult and that is what we brought with us to the next few games and in that long stretch we had. And now we will use this as a training opportunity that we are not in “I don’t want to stuff anymore.

Lulu Kesen covers South Carolina athletics for Greenville News and the USA Today network. Send her an email to her [email protected] And follow her on X known as Twitter, @Lulukesin

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