re: Blakeney, Sampson, Mays and Sims

It does confuse me how we are so bad considering how much talent we have. Goes to show how bad johnny really is. Especially when you look at what he has last year...

In hindsight, J.Martin and J.Mickey are one of the better forward combos LSU has had in a while. They were severly lacking a dominant guard that year and wd could have made some noise even with Johnny at the helm.

On a side note... i really love Johnny as a person and an ambassador of our university. He's a class act, but somewhat similar to Les Miles, its time for a change. (Not comparing Miles to Johnny as an actual coach. Les deserves more credit)

What's sad about that is the way he totally mishandled the point guard situation during the M&M days. Hickey was here already. He had the top assist to turnover ratio in the sec 2 years running and was 1 or 2 in the nation in steals. He was also a big game player who always elevated his play vs the better teams and was our leader. So Jones decides to push him out because he has this super quick stat stuffer on deck named Josh Gray. Ppl can say what they want but Gray was very talented (he's a d leaguer). Nobody could stay in front of that kid and if hedve been coached could've averaged 8 assist per game. Instead Jones big idea was to insert Tim Quarterman at the point. A true wing player who was a shoot first guy and couldn't blow by anybody or cover any above avg point guards either. Grays record starting at point was something like 18-7 while TQs was around 18-16. (Not exact numbers but they Arnt off but more than a couple games). So take away the non structure on offense, take away the horribly coached D and FT shooting take away the poor situational basketball and that group still had enough talent to play yard ball and do something. But Jones would rather be hard headed and play favorites than win games. Yea some ppl say he's classy and a good guy but coaches who do that sort of thing seldom are and what's even more important, he sucks at his job.

With a legit coach. Right now only Sims plays defense on every possession.

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I agree JJ needs another year at the helm, his team has shown improvement.

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Harold Christ.

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There's talent on this roster. Just got to developme it and run an actually offense with it

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Like I said earlier, the team is simply tanking to get into the lottery. Everyone needs to layoff.

Record is too bad keep Jones. Must get new coach!

Three of these are not like the other

Martin and Mickey both left too soon. They should be seniors this year but they weren't learning anything here and Martin actually needed the money so why stay. If we had a real coach there's a good chance Mickey would've stayed at least one more year. Give Martin some time and he'll be fine, he's still a pup.