LSU Men’s Basketball

You’re asking for things McMahon can’t do. He can’t coach to his players talent, he doesn’t know how to use our depth and he only knows how to play the way we’ve seen. He's been incapable of adjusting.

Maybe not but can McMahon play defensive tackle?

Theres gotta be something he can do to help LSU athletics

Not the worst idea anyone has posted. ;)

This Saturday against South Carolina should be very interesting. Could go very good or very bad for LSU, but I have to favor the very good. Baker should be successful against an old Tiger in Josh Gray. Meanwhile they offer a bruiser at power forward and point guard. We can absorb the fouls (we foul a ton every game anyways) but the one vulnerability will be in Trae gets into would trouble, so we should try to guard against that.

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Based on who is leaving and who is coming in that we know of right now, I am not sure if that will happen. But if it does plus he has a better recruiting class next season, then what happens?

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At minimum, LSU will lose 4 players from this team: Baker, Wright, Hannibal and Dean. Given the transient nature of college basketball as a whole, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect another 3-4 to leave the program as well. So he’s likely going to be faced with finding an additional 7-8 players to replace the departures. 2 are HS signees (who are both top 100 prospects). The rest will have to come from the transfer portal. Can he put together a new roster, get it to gel, and have success well beyond a roughly .500 record overall and legitimately compete for a NCAAT spot, all in about 10 months? We’ll see. If not, why give him another year to “see” if he can do what he wouldn’t have been able to do in 3 years?

Personally, I think LSU is wasting their time with him now because I just don’t see anything to suggest he’s a coach that can make the program a consistent contender. However, barring something unexpected, he’ll get a 3rd season regardless of how this season finishes.

It’s not unreasonable, you forget that these are college kids and those who have been there may think the grass is greener on the other side. Cook may transfer again if he feels this offense is just not the right fit for him, Ward and reed could transfer because they may be a missing piece a contender can add to strengthen their roster. Collins may leave if he feels like he will not get enough playing time. There is no way of predicting what is going on in these kids heads, unless you know them personally or they are related in some way to you. Nobody who comes into a P5 school wants to stick around if you’re not winning anymore unless they are already deemed a lottery pick. Take the PG for UNC the last couple of years, left and went to Zona after a final four run followed by a sub par season. To sit here and say “why would we lose 3-4 players to the portal” is absurd and if you believe this then you are lying to yourself.

You may be right, I’m not saying they won’t stay. I’m just saying it’s not out of the realm of possibilities for them to leave.

So let me ask you this, and this is just an example. Say a P5 school who actually has a chance to contend like tennesse comes and starts pimpin reed or Ward, or they good enough to start there? I’d say they have a good chance. Tennesse might be a bad example but you get what I’m saying

Let’s say it is doom casting and all of these guys stay. Coach is going to have to show big strides in improvement and move away from that very Mid Major ish type of offense he’s always ran. And look, I’m not a will wade guy or a Mcman guy, I’m a LSU basketball Fan. It’s my sport of choice and it sucks watching this product on the floor. I’ve sat back not saying anything in hopes Mcman would get it together. But year 3 is approaching and there are people here trying to convince me that overhauls in college basketball take 3-4 years?! I want improvement next year but as far as I can see Mcman is just a solid Mid Major coach, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But adding two top 100 players to this roster might bump him to 500 in the conference next year? One can dream thou…

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Coach is going to have to show big strides in improvement and move away from that very Mid Major ish type of offense he’s always ran.

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Offense is not the issue for LSU, especially since Baker has returned to form shooting. Defense and rebounding are the issue.

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Say a P5 school who actually has a chance to contend like Tennesse comes and starts pimpin reed or Ward, or they good enough to start there? I’d say they have a good chance.

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Taking the fact Portal Transfers have become a very big problem for the "Have Nots", makes it appear it was extremely fool hardy to fire a coach like Wade. He always seemed to have a great report with his players.