Since we obviously didn't get the message from my January 19th blog piece, I'll use a larger font and run it again in hopes we can get ourselves fully prepared for the Trojans Friday night. We got outplayed in just about every aspect of the game last month down in LaLaLand. There was nothing pretty or fun that Sunday afternoon in the Galen Center.
USC is much better than their record or their ranking would indicate. Kadi Sissoko, a 6'-2" slasher, is one of the quickest most dynamic players in the country. Rayah Marshall, their 6'-4" power forward (take that literally), is emerging as one of the most effective post players in the PAC12. In their last game she scored 33 points against Oregon State. Destiny Littleton came off the bench for Dawn Staley, but she's a dangerous starter for Lindsay. They recently lost to Oregon, but Sissoko couldn't play. They're really just getting to know each other, since most of them recently emerged from the Transfer Portal. Even as a bunch of semi-strangers they're darn good. The Trojans are going to do a lot of damage during the conference season and I predict they end up as a ranked team that makes the NCAA Tournament. How do you think they're approaching their upcoming game against #2? (Now #6.)
The newly ranked #25 Trojans recently beat Oregon 56 to 51 and Oregon State in OT 60 to 56. The way I see it, all the games we have left are great building blocks for constructing our National Championship contender. Let's play UCLA and USC with the same grit and fight we'll use to beat South Carolina in early April. When we get this Top-Fuel Dragster fully tuned and primed, we can beat the Gamecocks in the fourth quarter down in Dallas the same way we beat'em in the first three - by out-shooting, out-hussling, and out-fighting them.
LET'S GO STANFORD!!!!
