South Carolina basketball coach Dawn Staley has hilarious reaction to A'ja Wilson question

South Carolina basketball legend A'ja Wilson is dominating at the Paris Olympics. The Columbia native is leading the charge as Team USA is the overwhelming favorite to win the gold medal, one that would be their 8th-straight Olympic title. Some are even asking if Wilson could be the best Olympian in United States Basketball Women's National team history.

However, her head coach with the Gamecocks was Dawn Staley, and Wilson's mentor was an all-time great Olympian, as well. She won three gold medals as a player (1996, 2000, and 2004), was the USA flag bearer in 2004, and added to her Olympic resume by coaching the team to a gold medal in 2020.

Just to stir the pot, the South Carolina basketball media team presented the current crop of Gamecock players which legend would win in a 1-on-1 game during their Olympic primes. You can watch the video below to see their initial thoughts.

In somewhat overwhelming fashion, A'ja Wilson was the winner of this hypothetical. Guards MiLaysia Fulwiley, Te-Hina Paopao, and Maddy McDaniel and veteran center Sakima Walker picked their head coach, while the rest of the roster chose Wilson (though, several players flip-flopped their decisions or tried to keep their Wilson pick a secret).

Coach Staley saw the video and responded immediately.

With tongue firmly planted in her cheek, Staley said that she loves "some" of the girls on her team. Naturally, the players who picked their head coach as the hypothetical winner received words of love from their head coach and were referred to with nicknames and terms of endearment. Staley jokingly said she didn't love the girls who didn't have her back and even expressed her disappointment that honors college student Joyce Edwards didn't have the intelligence to pick correctly. She even had a message for her former player, telling A'ja Wilson that this is one game she "wouldn't win."

Only point guard Raven Johnson escaped unscathed as she didn't answer the question; Maryam Dauda tried to avoid answering but took a stray from her head coach anyway.

The South Carolina basketball coach has been in Paris for the Summer Olympics, supporting just about every Team USA competing in the Games. She made sure to include in her video the not-so-veiled "threat" that she would be seeing her team again soon.

The Gamecocks are coming off of an undefeated National Championship-winning season and will tip off their repeat tour on November 4th with a neutral site game in Las Vegas against the Michigan Wolverines.