re: Basketball Starting 5 needs to change

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These 5 (and Gray in spurts) are the only SEC-caliber players we have.

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Malone has the 3rd highest plus minus on the team behind Mickey and Patterson. And he does that in a fraction of the minutes. Other players on the bench could contribute if they were allowed to get off the bench.

Case in point: Last night in the second half we were down by 4. Mickey basically didn't even cross half court on offense because he was tired / hurt even though we had a man advantage because the Auburn player was lying on the ground after a missed layup. So Jones takes him out.

Within 30 seconds we get a 3 pointer and Martin slams one home on a fast break. We are up 1. Jones immediately sends Mickey to the table to check back in. Auburn calls a TO so basically Mickey gets about 35 seconds of rest even though the team was doing fine without him.

Jones has been a horrible in game coach for LSU. He was better in his first year when he didn't care about the starters as much. Hopefully he changes or we will be back where we started after next year, possibly worse as Mickey, Martin, Simmons, and Hornsby will be gone.