Never have I seen such panic at a one point loss in their first road game against a major opponent. Marquette was fired up after a bad loss and played way over their heads. They are a poor 3 point shooting team but made a lot of them when it counted against us. On the other hand we are a 3 point team and had a horrible night.

It wasn't the coaching that made us miss wide open three pointers. It wasn't coaching that made us miss free throws. For the most part it was a bad game by everybody on the team except for Simmons and Gray. Just a little improvement in a lot of ways would have meant a win.

We will bounce back. Just because players are great in high school doesn't mean they don't have to adjust to college. We will get better. I knew we had weakness with interior defense and rebounding. I didn't expect us to miss so many jump shots. Blakeney and Patterson pulled the trigger way too many times on very long shots. I got slammed for saying Patterson wasn't a point guard. Well tonight he wasn't a very good shooting guard either. But I know he can shoot and he will have better games.

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Posted by tadelatt

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Posted on 11/24/15 at 12:11 am to Tom Bronco

This place shows me that no matter who we have, there will always be haters.

Ben Simmons is left handed for the genius that said the scouting report is easy on him and that he can't finish with his left. The kid goes 21-20-7 and added 2 steals yet the downfall is he has no mid range?

First off, why shoot from 12 when you can dominate from 3? Shaq did it. Bill Russell did it. Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Moses Malone, etc... He had to be the big man tonight to help our defense. He can play any spot and tonight he had to cover our weakest spot and play the 4-5 area. If he needs to be the 1-2 then he can do that too.

He has a mid range and he can shoot from outside, he just doesn't have to yet.

The Lebron comments are garbage being as Lebron scored about 27 consecutive points before passing the ball off for the last shot and the only thing anyone does is turn him into a thing you say about a star player that doesn't take the last shot? He dominated the game and made a decision he thought would help the team win. He is young and will learn how to handle the end of the game better

Relax LSU fans, we actually have a RANKED basketball team, fricking enjoy it

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Posted by Tiger Ugly

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Posted on 11/24/15 at 7:07 am to Tom Bronco

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Never have I seen such panic at a one point loss in their first road game against a major opponent. Marquette was fired up after a bad loss and played way over their heads.

That's the nature of forum's such as this. I was disappointed in the performance and I think we definitely lost to a lesser team, but I think it's something we need to get used to under CJJ.

He's going to bring in the players but he's going to lose a few each year to lesser teams in puzzling fashion. Sure I'd rather have a coach who could both bring 'em in and out-scheme the opposing coach but that's rare. If given the choice I'd take the guy that could bring in the talent every time.

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It wasn't the coaching that made us miss wide open three pointers. It wasn't coaching that made us miss free throws.

But we were allowed to continue to settle for 3's early in the shot clock, that to me is coaching. And as for free throws we actually shot those pretty well last night. Ended over 70%.

What disappointed me the most was the defense. We just looked out of position defensively way too much both individually and as a team. Our footwork in guarding the dribbler seems to me to be poor too often. Lot's of work to do in that regard, something I had hoped the Australian trip would have helped with.

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