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re: We thought Dale couldn't coach
Posted on 1/13/17 at 10:23 pm to The Boat
Posted on 1/13/17 at 10:23 pm to The Boat
My point was Dale spread the floor in the first three games of the tournament and beat three better seeded teams. The spread might have cost LSU that game, or maybe it could have been the fact the refs refused to call any of dozens of illegal screens Indiana set for Alford. Bottom line it was borderline miraculous LSU was in that position with that team.
And saying LSU lost in 81 because they played the spread against Indiana is a bit disingenuous. Dale, for some inexplicable reason, spread the floor in the first half after Isiah Thomas got his third foul and had to sit out. A really, really, really bad move. But the game was tied at half. LSU was blown out in the second half but did not go into the spread in that half.
And saying LSU lost in 81 because they played the spread against Indiana is a bit disingenuous. Dale, for some inexplicable reason, spread the floor in the first half after Isiah Thomas got his third foul and had to sit out. A really, really, really bad move. But the game was tied at half. LSU was blown out in the second half but did not go into the spread in that half.
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Posted on 1/13/17 at 10:24 pm to GeauxEaux
If it weren't for Marcus Thornton LSU basketball would be completely irrelevant since 2006.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 2:23 pm to setinways12
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But yes, LSU basketball was most successful with him in charge in the 80's.
The SEC was tougher when Dale Brown coached and the level of team ball throughout the NCAA was better back then due to teams staying together longer. It sucks right now so I think he'd do ok actually.
LSU's program was a complete turd when he took it over. LSU didn't even accomplish anything with Pistol Pete. Brown turned LSU into a winning and exciting program while attracting the biggest crowds to ever watch a basketball game anywhere when he coached. He had his downside for sure, but let's just say he accomplished what no one thought he could.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 4:37 pm to Kracka
Stfu...u know nothing.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 4:57 pm to The Blue Stuff
Dale Brown couldn't coach himself out of a wet dream. He should have been fired about 4 years before he was let go. John Brady started with absolutely no talent and recruiting sanctions from Daddy Dale and Johnny Jones. Johnny Jones needs to go now and Daddy Dale needs to follow him.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 4:58 pm to GeauxEaux
Dale Brown was a great recruiter and motivator. As for coaching, Brown may not have been great, but he was a helluva lot better than what we have today.
(Side note about Dale Brown: I loved the feud he had with Tulane coach Roy Danforth. I remember after a game in which LSU crushed Tulane by nearly 40 points in the late 70's and Danforth allegedly called Brown an S.O.B. on the court, Brown in the postgame press conference called Danforth, "That little punk," and said "I could have laid him out with one punch."
(Side note about Dale Brown: I loved the feud he had with Tulane coach Roy Danforth. I remember after a game in which LSU crushed Tulane by nearly 40 points in the late 70's and Danforth allegedly called Brown an S.O.B. on the court, Brown in the postgame press conference called Danforth, "That little punk," and said "I could have laid him out with one punch."
This post was edited on 1/14/17 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 1/14/17 at 5:14 pm to TigersFan64
Yeah, people that say otherwise don't know anything. You don't go to multiple Final Fours, win SEC championships and become the 2nd winningest coach in SEC history after inheriting a bad, losing program if you don't know anything.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 12:38 pm to AndrewD
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People said the same thing about Coach Brown while we were going to the final four
And that's as far as they got...
Posted on 1/19/17 at 12:59 pm to Midtiger farm
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This is stupid. You don't go to 2 final fours, 2 elite eights, and 2 sweet sixteens and not be able to coach basketball
Art Tolis
Ron Abernathy
Rick Huckabee
Those were the X & O brains behind those great Dale Brown teams, especially Abernathy. Once they were gone, Dale was exposed.
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