Lamont Paris Gives An Update On Myles Stute, Talks Round Two With Tennessee

The head coach of South Carolina's men's basketball team talks about the status of one of his top offensive players and the Gamecocks rematch against the Vols.

On Tuesday afternoon, South Carolina's men's basketball team went through their final practice before their highly anticipated matchup against the No. 4 Tennessee Volunteers tomorrow night, a matchup in which SEC regular season title implications will hang in the balance. You always want to have your best players available for a game of this magnitude. Unfortunately for Lamont Paris and the Gamecocks, one of their best perimeter shooters and most experienced players, Myles Stute, is once again battling back from injury ahead of Carolina's matchup with the Volunteers.

Coach Paris gave the media an encouraging update after his team's practice concluded.

"He's going to try to give it a go, I think. I mean, [it] seemed like he was good. I just, about 11 seconds ago, got the word from Mark [Rodger] that he felt pretty good today. So he'll be available. [We'll] see what that looks like."

One mutually beneficial fact about this rematch between the Gamecocks and Tennessee is that both teams will have a better idea of what to expect from the opposing team, even though both squads have played high-level basketball since January 30th. Although it won't be the exact same gameplan that they brought into the first meeting, Coach Paris has a simple plan: prepare for everything but keep the main thing the main thing.

"We did look at a couple of things just because you know [Dalton] Knecht had 39 points the other day on a on a fairly efficient day - At the same time, we held them 59 points [last time]. I think it wasn't the first game on their home court. I don't want to bank on being able to do that again," Lamont lamented. "So, we've prepared for some other things, but yeah, our bread and butter is what it is; it is to sit down in a stance, try really hard to execute our principles and communicate and cover up for one another and fight really hard and then rebound. That's our plan, and that'll be our bread and butter tomorrow."

South Carolina's "bread and butter" led to them holding the Volunteers to just 36.2 percent shooting from the floor and 23.8 percent shooting from behind the 3-point line in their upset in Knoxville. We'll see if they can replicate that same strategy tomorrow night at the Colonial Life Arena.

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