B Samp Sims and Mays is our only hope

28-2 (17-1) next year. Book it

I have high hopes for B-Samp and Mays. Worried a little about Sims developing, mainly because he had to play post his whole HS career and he's going to have to work on a stronger outside game/ball handling/shooting etc. But he's very athletic. Put in the work and I can see him being a solid player down the line. Wouldn't expect too much as a frosh, which is fine. This program needs more 3-4 year players.

I'm not sold on Mays. I know he had good stats at Findlay this year and he did well in AAU. I just don't see him being consistently good if he doesn't play at 100% all the time. I think Uhigh looked better this year without him. I really liked the way Simms played in high school. I think it will take him a couple of years to develop into an SEC player, if he can do it at all. Just like when Bridgewater came out, I think Simms could dominate on a low D1 level maybe even a mid D1 school.

Brandon Sampson was not the best HS senior in Baton Rouge. Jacob Evans from St.Michael was. He outplayed Brandon Sampson when they played as Seniors. He played over 14 minutes per game and led Cincinnati with 24 points in there NCAA tournament game.

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Next year we gone be alright cause we won't have to depend on one man and now we can play team ball.

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That one man was more than happy to play "team ball". In fact, he was killed constantly on this board for not "taking over games." The problem is that you have a coach who doesn't under how to teach "team ball". 5 individuals moving wherever they want on the court with no rhyme or reason is not team ball. JJ's offense amounted to nothing more than "whoever has the ball try to do something with it". Rarely did anyone move away from the ball. Rarely did anyone set screens away from the ball. On defense it was an unmitigated disaster with game plan of "try to get steals so we can get out and run." Keeping people in front of them and contesting shots were secondary in JJ's "defense". To his credit though, LSU implemented the "plan" to perfection. They led the SEC in steals while simultaneously being one of the least efficient defenses in the conference.

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we gone be alright cause we won't have to depend on one man 

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Because we did that so much this year?

Wishful thinking, bro.