I liked the game we played versus LA-Tech (we won 85-76): we played more up-tempo and with a quicker pace which Coach Martin said we would. We shot the ball fairly well, and shot VERY well from the 3-pt line (50% - 9-18).

Our bigs started out struggling with Silva, Kotsar, and Gueye picking up 2 early fouls each missing a lot of minutes. I saw some good things from the youngsters, especially in Kotsar who made plays all over the floor stealing one ball and slapping another one away from behind when LA-Tech was on a fast break. Gueye picked up 3 fouls in 1 minute of play, and was benched from then on. Gravett scored 7 1st half pts and 0 in the 2nd half, but he too showed his scoring capability hitting one from downtown.

Thornwell played very strong with 18 pts, and leading the team with 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and adding a block and a steal. Both Notice and Dozier combined to shoot 9-16 and 5-9 from the arc, and scored 17 pts each. Silva straightened himself out in the 2nd half to end up with 11 pts and 2 blocks.

Hopefully the young bigs improve on picking up the speed of the game and reduce the early fouling: I felt we could have dominated LA-Tech in rebounding, but didn't (we still held the edge 35-29) due to having to shuffle all our bigs in and out of the game with the fouling.

We need to improve on FT shooting a bit, but perhaps the one game isn't a good enough sample size yet.

We play Holy Cross tomorrow at 6 pm. It will be their season-opener. They lost 20 gms last season. Let's go Gamecocks!!