To score, defend and care for basketball, Seventh woods set up his best basketball game in a South Carolina uniform on Wednesday night.
The transfer guard helped the Gamecocks (5-6, 3-4) to beat Florida No. 22 on the road, setting the season’s record with 12 points out of 6 out of 10 shots with just one turn in 26 minutes played.
Just two days earlier, on Monday, both Woods and the head coach Frank Martin observed how the turnover number had to drop. Woods compiled 21 games over seven games as a point guard, six of which were conference games. On Wednesday night, Martin spoke about his guard’s performance, citing that the player he saw on the court in Gainesville was the preparation phenomenon he saw playing at Hammond School in Columbia six years ago.
“We didn’t bring Seventh home just to let it graze,” said Martin. “We brought him home to make him feel good about himself. We brought him home to give him a chance to compete. This is the journey we are on. The seventh is a great kid and seeing him play with this aggression, that’s what I saw of him in Hammond at school.
“I used to say to him when I was recruiting him: ‘If you give me the chance, I will be with you every day to get this out of you.’ He is playing more aggressively and aggressively. It’s fun to watch. “
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Woods controlled one of the SEC’s best security guards in the second year Tre Mann, who appropriately also plays for his hometown team. While leading the Gators with 17 points, he shot just 38 percent (6 of 16) of the field. He had a time-high three turnovers. Martin credited the defense with Woods’ ball – something he said could make a difference in this team – by limiting Mann to create for himself. Eight of Mann’s 16 points came across the three-point line as a free-throw pitcher or free-throw line.
“Defensively, how about he guarding Tre Mann and overcoming those ball screens one after another after another and fighting,” said Martin. “It all starts with your owner. When your guard plays very defensively, when your guard plays aggressively in attack, it gives you a chance. “
Woods has the respect of his coach and his teammates, evident as a top scorer AJ Lawsonthe answer when asked about Woods’ best game in a Gamecocks uniform.
“I’m happy for Seventh, Lawson said. “He’s such a good guy and a good teammate. He is always encouraging me, on and off the court. Watching his shots go down is great for him and I hope it stays that way. We need him. He can score, help, is a good teammate and plays defense. They are all good things and that is a threat in court that we need ”.