South Carolina freshman GG Jackson criticizes Gamecock coaching staff after latest loss
Count GG Jackson among those frustrated with how he’s been handled at South Carolina this season.
After the Gamecocks latest loss — falling by two-points to the Arkansas Razorbacks — Jackson took to social media to criticize the South Carolina coaching staff. Evidently, he’s not happy with his usage down the stretch of games, and he’s venting some frustration.
“Bro I’m not even getting plays drawn up for me in the crunch time bro,” Jackson said, via Instagram.
That’s something that likely won’t sit well with Lamont Paris. The Gamecocks head coach has already seen his team lose nine of their last ten contests, and Jackson’s antics aren’t going to fly with the coach.
It’ll be fascinating to watch what happens regarding GG Jackson and the South Carolina coaching staff. Whether they look his way more down the stretch or if Paris decides to punish his star remains to be seen, but the Gamecocks need something to change regardless.
Lamont Paris reflects on frustrations from year one
Moreover, it’s been a frustrating season for Paris and the Gamecocks, but the coach took some time earlier this week to reflect on the team and his efforts to get them engaged on a regular basis. You can read those comments in full right here:
“Yeah it’s hard. It’s very difficult. I think it’s probably more difficult now than ever, just because, you know, it’s a it’s an emotional group. These these kids that are of college age and any of you that are around them on a consistent basis or or are the parent of them or uncle or aunt or whatever it is, you know that. And so, it’s difficult. It’s always been difficult when you go through a stretch, but I think it’s even more difficult now.
“So I think our spirits have been pretty good overall relative to that. Because you have to move forward, you have to get ready for the next game, you have to try to improve. And the only way you’re going to do it is if you have a positive attitude. If you’re going to go into something and accept the work and and try to get better, otherwise you’re just the same guy. And you hope you play better and you hope you just play better in one game. But it’s a challenge.
“We’re constantly talking about it, constantly trying to put things into perspective in a way that it makes sense to them and talk about the next move and the next step in the horizon and what the future is. The future is short. It’s tomorrow, it’s in a couple days, it’s the next game. But we’re constantly trying to focus on that in a way that we can inspire guys to continue to work hard and come out and have a lot of energy and a lot of juice when they play the basketball game. Every day is a new day. Like every hole’s a new hole.
“And the other golf analogy — so, if you’re hanging your head because you had a triple bogey or three bogeys in a row, the chances of your birdie in the next are relied on that, if you’re not in the right head space. But if you take all the factors into account, you make a good, solid decision. You plan on hitting a good shot, you concentrate the way that you’re capable of — your chances go up of of having a par or a birdie on that next hole. Don’t get too many birdies, but yeah, that’s the mentality that I think you have to have in order to to persevere through some pretty trying times.”
On3’s Alex Weber contributed to this article.