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South Carolina is finishing up its first official week of practice, but the Gamecocks have been on campus and working out for the better part of the summer. As a team coming off an undefeated championship season and returning all but one player, you would think the coaches have a pretty clear idea of the team they have.<\/p>\n

You would be wrong. And Dawn Staley blames the Highlighters, the nickname for the male practice players, for the uncertainty.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s the thing, we don\u2019t know how good we are because our Highlighters are so good,\u201d Staley said earlier this week. \u201cThey\u2019re much quicker than us. They run us out the gym at times. So we\u2019re really having a hard time figuring out how good we are, much like we were last year. Until we play Memphis, I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t feel good right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The coaches have discussed changing how the Highlighters practice. Assistant coach Winston Gandy coaches the Highlighters, and could instruct his charges to go easier. But Staley is hesitant to go that route.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo we need to change things according to what\u2019s happening out there against the Highlighters? Do we just let it go?\u201d she said. \u201cWe know what\u2019s good basketball. We do have to clean up some things, but it\u2019s hard to gauge.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wants to see a change in how the players respond to the Highlighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want us to play better. I want us to make better decisions,\u201d Staley said. \u201cI want us to probably get mad that they\u2019re getting beat. Get mad at the Highlighters and take that up to another level. We\u2019re not going to change the way the Highlighters are playing, but it will help us. So we have to adjust to them. We have to figure out how we can consistently beat them. We beat them every so often, but not enough to make us feel real good about what we\u2019re doing. That\u2019s not a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are still almost three weeks until the exhibition against Memphis, and almost six weeks until the regular season opener against Michigan. That\u2019s plenty of time to get ticked off.<\/p>\n

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