LSU Basketball FAIL

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Please explain?

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I'm not fluent in rantard sorry

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Coach Jones is a good recruiter, but can't coach during the game. So great, he is just like Les Miles.

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Les Miles has is pitfalls, but he gets labled as "only a recruiter" far too much. When have you seen a Les Miles team lose a game to a team like Rhode Island? When has a Les Miles team not been competitive in games with inferior opponents?

I know this thread isn't about Les Miles, but you lose all credibility when you compare a basketball team that will miss the NCAA tournament with a Les Miles team.

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Les Miles has is pitfalls, but he gets labled as "only a recruiter" far too much. When have you seen a Les Miles team lose a game to a team like Rhode Island? When has a Les Miles team not been competitive in games with inferior opponents?

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Basketball is also a totally different game than football, one in which there are a lot more upsets. I don't think there is much you can compare between the two.


Also, basketball is much more centered around reacting than plays. In football you read defense prior to the play but then you just run your play. Basketball you have to be opportunistic and take advantage of things outside the scope of a specific play.

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Coach Jones is a good recruiter, but can't coach during the game. So great, he is just like Les Miles

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To be fair, our defensive woes boil down to one of two things or maybe both:

1) the players aren't receiving the coaching they need on the defensive end. We don't do ANYTHING well on that end

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I honestly think we just need better players. I think at some point a player can't really be coached to be any better defensively. I'm mainly talking about our guards continuing time after time to allow dribble penetration into the heart of the defense. When it keeps happening over and over and over, at some point you have to just think they physically can't do it.

When the played zone like they gave a frick. We killed. Now we're leaving shooters wide open for threes that they are burying. S hit the nail on the head on his thread

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When the played zone like they gave a frick. We killed. Now we're leaving shooters wide open for threes that they are burying. S hit the nail on the head on his thread

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I disagree. Since day 1, we have left 3 point shooters wide open. UK just missed the shots. aTm didn't miss them last night. I have disliked the zone since we started and I think people gave it way too much credit.

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To be fair, there is a difference between lone upsets and losing constantly on the road.

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I agree, but almost every team loses games on road. It's a problem, but it isn't an LSU only problem. aTm, Ark, Alabama, LSU all have a ridiculous home/away parity issue. Im sure there are more than that but those are the ones that I think of off the top of my head.

A team that averages 5 threes a game went off on us last night. Most of their attempts were uncontested. Shocking revelation: SEC caliber players will make uncontested 3's. No excuse for that many uncontested 3's. We don't seem to understand defensive rotation and we aren't very good at getting through off ball screens. These two lack of fundamentals derive from one or both of two things, lack preparation and lack of effort. Finally, our reliance on the 2-3 zone is pretty embarrassing. A 2-3 zone is only effective if you have a lot of length on the top (see Syracuse), we don't. Rolling out a 2-3 may have been effective in the sunbelt, but it's not getting the job done in the SEC.

Jones is a great recruiter, but if he doesn't get some X and O's help, his tenure may be short.

Several of those 3's came against players other than hickey and stringer. I know on one Martin got completely lost and then failed to get through a screen.