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How To Watch: South Carolina at Georgia
South Carolina’s men’s basketball team will look to make the necessary adjustments in order to get payback against the Georgia Bulldogs.
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For the first time since the 2023-24 season began, Lamont Paris and the South Carolina Gamecocks find themselves in a position where they’ll be looking to settle a score with a team in the Georgia Bulldogs who didn’t just defeat them earlier this Winter but managed to do it on their home floor. The Gamecocks have played with a chip on their shoulder for the past several weeks, and one has to imagine that the motivation will remain high as they enter Georgia’s home venue on Saturday afternoon.
The last time these two teams met, the story was South Carolina’s poor shooting efforts in two critical areas: the foul line and the three-point line. Lamont’s squad made just 17 of their 32 free throw attempts (53.1 percent) and shot below 25 percent from behind the arc. On the other end, Georgia did everything right offensively to close the game, scoring 16 points in the final five minutes of regulation, including 12 points at the charity stripe.
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Meechie Johnson putting up a long-range jumpshot against Georgia in their previous matchup (16th Jan., 2024)
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Aside from poor shooting, the Gamecocks didn’t do a good enough job of closing off driving lanes, which the Bulldogs attacked with intent all night long, and it led to several fouls being called, some which were fair and some which were questionable. Paris said after the game that his team broke multiple defensive rules that are essentially non-negotiables for every game they play.
If South Carolina wants to get some revenge on Georgia tomorrow afternoon, I think it’ll come down to the Gamecocks’ backcourt versus the Bulldogs’ athletic guards on the defensive end due to everything I mentioned earlier. It should also be noted that between both teams, Georgia has had a much more difficult time closing out games, primarily at home, with games against Tennessee, LSU, and Alabama all serving as good examples.
We’ll see if South Carolina can extend their winning streak on Saturday, but there should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the Gamecocks will be highly motivated.
How To Watch: South Carolina @ Georgia
Gameday: Saturday, February 3rd, 2024
Venue: Stegeman Coliseum (Athens, GA)
Game time: 1:00 PM ET
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Mike Macdonald is now the youngest head coach in the NFL as the Seattle Seahawks hired the 36 year old this week.
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When legendary Georgia head coach Mark Richt knew Macdonald back in the early-2010s, he was a young assistant on the Bulldogs’ coaching staff.
Macdonald’s first coaching job was at Cedar Shoals High School in Georgia in 2008 and 2009 when he coached linebackers and running backs. In 2010, he returned to his alma mater as a graduate assistant on Richt’s coaching staff, and then spent 2011-13 as a defensive quality control assistant.
Richt shared his memories and impressions of the newest Seahawks head coach during an interview with Seattle Sports’ Wyman and Bob on Thursday.
“Very sharp guy, great communicator, hard worker,” Richt said of Macdonald. “Just a intelligent, eloquent guy that has a mental toughness and physical toughness when it comes to football. You could tell good things were gonna happen to Mike.”
Being a grad assistant and then an analyst, Richt said there’s a “certain workload” those guys have, and their duties expand once it’s clear they can handle it.
“Mike was the kind of guy that you knew if you gave him an assignment, it was gonna get done, it’s gonna get done well and get done in a timely manner,” Richt said. “And then you could just see him relate to players, a guy that is genuine. A lot of coaches try to be somebody they’re not, and players kind of sniff that out pretty quick, especially, I would think, at the NFL level, it’s even more so. You’d better be genuine, you’d better be who you are so you don’t have to sit there and act like somebody else, which is exhausting to begin with. And Mike’s just a real genuine human being, a guy that can relate to all kinds of people, and he’s very, very good at what he does.”
“He took care of business very well, and was definitely a guy that wanted to know why things are done,” Richt added of Macdonald’s time at Georgia. “Not to question coaches in what they’re doing, but the why as to be able to learn.”
Richt was an extremely successful head coach at Georgia, going 145-51 with just one losing season and two SEC titles between 2001 and 2015. He offered some advice Macdonald’s way.
“Be genuine. Be who you are. Because who you are is what got you where you are to begin with,” Richt said. “Earn the trust of the people around you. I think think in the NFL, you’ve got to earn the trust of these players … In the pros, sometimes they need it know why we’re doing it. And when you motivate grown men, it’s a little bit different. They’ve got to know you and trust you and believe that you have their best interests at heart because it’s their livelihood. So I think just be true to yourself, be honest with everybody, and do what you think is best in the end, because the buck is gonna stop with you.”
Listen to Wyman and Bob’s full interview with Mark Richt at this link or in the player near the top of this story.
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