South Carolina Gamecocks at Tennessee Volunteers: open game thread
by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 5:00 PM EST
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January 17, 2009 |
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No. 24 (AP) NR (USA Today) |
NR (AP) NR (USA Today) |
| Tennessee | Ht.
| Wt.
| Yr.
| PPG
| RPG
| APG
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| C | 4 Wayne Chism | 6-9 | 242 | Jr. | 12.8 | 9.1 | 1.5 |
| F | 1 Tyler Smith | 6-7 | 215 | Jr. | 17.8 | 6.1 | 3.8 |
| G | 30 J.P. Prince | 6-7 | 205 | Jr. | 9.8 | 3.8 | 2.1 |
| G | 32 Scotty Hopson | 6-7 | 185 | Fr. | 8.3 | 2.3 | 1.1 |
| G | 3 Bobby Maze | 6-2 | 185 | Jr. | 10.0 | 3.1 | 3.8 |
| South Carolina | Ht.
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Wt.
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Yr.
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PPG
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RPG
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APG
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| F | 24 Mike Holmes | 6-7 | 230 | So. | 11.5 | 8.1 | 0.3 |
F | 21 Dominique Archie | 6-7 | 200 | Jr. | 11.1 | 7.0 | 0.9 |
| G | 5 Brandis Raley-Ross | 6-2 | 193 | Jr. | 7.1 | 3.7 | 2.0 |
| G | 20 Zam Fredrick | 6-0 | 203 | Sr. | 16.2 | 3.1 | 2.0 |
| G | 2 Devan Downey | 5-9 | 175 | Jr. | 19.6 | 2.7 | 4.2 |
Jackson the Mule says . . . |
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. . . Down with Downey! |
Leave your pre-, in-, and post-game thoughts below.
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How much will Downey score tonight?
I’m thinking 15.
I’m gonna try to watch on ESPN360, but might have to drop back to Bob and Bert.
I'm guessing
just a bit over 20. Say, 22.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:07 PM EST up reply actions
Hopefully,
they’ll just absolutely shut him down, but I just don’t know that motivation is all it will take.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:07 PM EST up reply actions
Lots of movement
along the baseline early.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:08 PM EST reply actions
That's a freaky-looking coach
CAn’t put my finger on why, but . . . weird.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:09 PM EST reply actions
Didn't see that
An elbow? Really?
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:12 PM EST reply actions
Maybe it's time to get nasty.
Hard foul on Tyler but the guy got the ball. Wish out D was that tough at times.
Yeah
We do need an intimidator.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:15 PM EST up reply actions
Ooh
Tyler Smith is not the guy you want to intentional hard-foul, I don’t think.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:14 PM EST reply actions
Yeah
That was some nice interior passing. More of that.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:14 PM EST reply actions
Marilyn Manson
Is that who the coach reminds me of?
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:16 PM EST up reply actions
Had the same realization
at the same time. Same reaction, too.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:17 PM EST up reply actions
Head official
Known for bringing attention to himself.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:18 PM EST up reply actions
It's simple corporate strategy:
You keep one guy around that nobody likes. When annual review time comes around, you can use him to keep your averages in line while giving everybody else high ratings. You don’t fire the guy unless downsizing is mandatory; then he’s the first to go and you figure out a new scapegoat.
It makes management’s life easier at the expense of, well, everybody else.
;-)
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 6:21 PM EST up reply actions
So far
Defense is much, much better. Playing the right guys close, forcing turnovers. And the offense is following.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:20 PM EST reply actions
South Carolina
can’t shoot this poorly much longer, though, huh?
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:23 PM EST reply actions
That's a switch:
Usually, UT shoots near 30% and the opponent is over 50%.
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 6:27 PM EST up reply actions
Is it me
or did Hopson not hustle down the floor for Downey’s last steal?
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:26 PM EST reply actions
It may be time to push it rather than ride it.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:35 PM EST up reply actions
So far, Downey's on a 12-13 point pace.
I’d guess he’ll end higher than that still, but it’s certainly a better start for UT than what they allowed against a certain other guard.
Somewhere I saw a lede that said that a team meeting helped sort things out.
So far, that sentiment seems to be holding up.
LOVE
that tenacity/persistence from Negedu. He speaks 76 languages, you know.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:48 PM EST reply actions
One for each of Alabama's national championships?
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 6:49 PM EST up reply actions
If I'm not confused . . .
Negedu is an SI model, Brian Williams is multilingual, and Marissa Miller has lost 280 pounds.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 6:52 PM EST up reply actions
I bet Negedu's thought the same thing. ;-D
But I hadn’t caught on to it. (Haven’t been able to keep up well.) Thx.
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 6:54 PM EST up reply actions
Got any numbers on assists?
Other than that:
mmm…rebounds…
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 7:00 PM EST up reply actions
Does Smith have another triple-double in the works, by any chance?
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 7:02 PM EST up reply actions
5, 5, 0
The zero is rebounds. Huh.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:03 PM EST up reply actions
Huh.
I’d guess that B. Williams has the lion’s share of rebounds then.
It’d be hard for anybody else to outrebound him when he’s having a good night. They’d first have to get past him.
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 7:05 PM EST up reply actions
Will be interesting
to see if we have the same energy in the second. Or was it just a short-lived response to Meeks?
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:09 PM EST reply actions
I'll be more curious to see if they play with this same energy in the next game.
If they keep this up through the season, it may be a sign of maturity setting in.
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 7:12 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, and Downey had . . .
four points in the first half. That’s good.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:11 PM EST reply actions
Two TOs by Prince on consecutive drives
Lead down to nine points.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:14 PM EST reply actions
Woo
Hopson having a solid game.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:19 PM EST reply actions
Yeah
If that was my name, I would always write it inside a spikey thought bubble.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:30 PM EST up reply actions
Nice run here
And we needed it.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:29 PM EST reply actions
yeah
Wayne Chism is very good at that.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
yeah
South Carolina is very good at that, though.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, that was weird.
I meant 7 minutes, 30 seconds, and the point differential was the same as halftime.
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 7:47 PM EST up reply actions
Oh
They called it. Williams broke the plane. First time I’ve seen that called.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:47 PM EST reply actions
The out of bounds play
Where our big guy guards the guy inbounding the ball. The ref called Williams for getting too close to out of bounds.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:52 PM EST up reply actions
Who's the guy
that’s seven feet tall? He’s a good couple of inches higher than Williams. He was just in the huddle.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:49 PM EST reply actions
If he's on our side, that's Jurick(sp?) from Chattanooga.
Freshman. Probably redshirting if they can help it.
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 7:51 PM EST up reply actions
He had to be
7’0 or bigger.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:54 PM EST up reply actions
He was listed at 7' during recruiting.
I don’t know where the 2 inches went, but he is the tallest guy on the team without question.
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 7:55 PM EST up reply actions
Must be a walk on
The guy was black.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:56 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe he was standing on something?
I don’t know. I’d never seen him before.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
Ah.
Well that rules out Jurick.
He was probably on a chair then.
by David Hooper on Jan 17, 2009 8:02 PM EST up reply actions
And Chism
Poor Wayne. Air balls a three, then gets called for another foul and is out of the game.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:58 PM EST reply actions
nine minutes, five fouls
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 7:59 PM EST up reply actions
And a five point lead
Yikes.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 8:00 PM EST reply actions
And Tyler
saves the day.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 8:02 PM EST up reply actions
Up by five
Smith scored four straight points, and put the team back up nine.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 8:05 PM EST up reply actions
Stole the momentum
from the Gamecocks, too.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 8:06 PM EST up reply actions
Dont' recall seeing Prince go out
but at least Chism, and probably Prince.
Tatum has missed the front end of two consecutive trips to the FT line. They keep fouling the right guy.
Two shots now.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 8:09 PM EST up reply actions
Maze missed the first, got the second. They shoot a three, miss, get the rebound, the guy hits the shot and gets fouled.
Tatum’s had a very bad last couple of minutes.
It’s a three point game with them at the line for one.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 8:11 PM EST up reply actions
And now it's down to four points
28 seconds left.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 8:08 PM EST reply actions
I probably won't do the game recap until the morning
’Night.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 17, 2009 8:13 PM EST reply actions
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