re: The misconception is lsu has a lot of talent.

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Every team deals with the same shite. Its not unique to LSU.

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Do they? Go look at Alabama and tell me the amount of class attrition they’ve had since Oats got there. frick it I’ll just tell you. In three years they’ve lost 4 players, one of whom was the 200th ranked player in his class and another was a grad transfer. The only contributor they lost was Primo who was a lotto pick. By year three Wade had already lost Naz, Kavell, Emmitt, and Marlon to pro ball or graduation.

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That's how basketball is, you have to have consistent top ten classes and capitalize every single year on the talent you have.

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So you expect us to be Kentucky and be a one and done factory then. Okay, I hate to break it to you but that probably ain’t happening. They way we’ll win is by building up an experienced roster and then supplementing it with big time freshman talent and transfers, which is what we are currently doing.

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Football isn't any different now, with the transfer portal and such.

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If a football coach loses 80% of his class in two years he’s probably trash and should be fired. It’s a totally different sport.

Gaines will never play in the NBA.

LSU is a victim of its own success. The Wade haters all seem to forget that this team was picked BOTTOM of the conference preseason. That speaks a lot to the base talent level of the team and the players relative development. We reel off 15 wins in a row and this board thinks we should be in the final four. Suddenly we get a couple injuries and have our lack of depth exposed and people look around and say we aren't meeting expectations, when in actuality it's just a regression to the mean. The truth is that this team has STILL over performed expectations and y'all want to run the coach out of town. Will wade isn't tom crean or cuonzo martin.

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Good coaches manage rosters.

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Oh you mean like bringing in a first round pick at the forward spot, a 5 star transfer pg, and a grad transfer veteran pg?

Underachieved?

What were the preseason expectations of this team with Miller?

Picked 6 in the conference. Given the logjam at 5-9, we met that expectation.

Most people had them as a 10-12 seed (Lunardi had them as a last 4 in to start the season). We will overachieve in that aspect.

If you think this team underachieved in a conference that will have 4 teams on the top 4 seed lines and 7 in the dance, you didn’t have realistic expectations.

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how much better LSU is under Wade Its not. Even John Brady got to a final 4

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Hahahaha.

This shite is so funny.

You've totally whiffed on this.

In fact you're making the Wade detractor's point that he can't coach these guys up.

A bunch of 4 and 5 star high profile high school basketball players and yet only 1 is sniffing the NBA at this point.

If I'm a high profile recruit, I go to a school with a legit coach.

TE for sure. Murray is a possibility. After 3-4 years of development Reid could make the league. Too early to tell with guys like Fudge. Lots of raw athleticism there.