re: Everyone- Stop being so critical of Coach Jones

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I miss John Brady

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+1. I like JJ, but Brady was a boss.

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We're not a good half court team right now and that's due to personnel.

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bullshite.

I've seen Biddy Ball teams run a half court better than LSU.

We have 5 legitimate D1 players, and the jury is still out on Gray. The rest are deadwood.

Who's responsible for the deadwood?

His greatest feat to date. Hiring David Patrick. In between he has sucked....

I thought Brady was terrible. That final four run was all talent IMO.

People need to just be patient and wait until next season when we are better than most teams. Some coaches are great when there is very little talent but average when they have a good team due to their coaching philosophy. Other coaches often succeed when they have the horses and are willing to turn them loose. We need to give Coach Jones a break and try to enjoy the season cause these kids are really fun to watch.

You do realize this is a sports message board, right?
Poster come here to discuss LSU sports.
This team is regressing. Ive never seen a p5 basketball team that cant inbound the ball on a regular basis. Our offense is damn near painful to watch. Its as if they are 5 random guys at a rec center that have never played together. He makes some of the weirdest timeout/no time calls ive ever seen. At the end of the Kentucky game we had the ball and couldn't get a good look.Coach JJones calls TO with 5 seconds left on the shot clock knowing full well we have trouble in bounding the ball. When we have a decent lead,our opponents start to make a run and instead of calling TO to try and slow momentum, he lets the team back into the game. In 3 of our lossesn we had double digit leads in the 2nd half and let the team come back.
No one is questioning Coach JJones can recruit but it is becoming clear that he has trouble with certain areas of coaching.

This team 2 big stars don't play with heart or passion. Hornsby and Quarterman or the only ones that do. I hope that the 2 supposedly stars on this team do leave because it's obious that they can't wait to leave

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We're not a good half court team right now and that's due to personnel.

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Here's where I was just like, who thinks this stupid shite?

And then I realized. People who don't know a damn fricking thing about coaching a basketball team.

Half court offense is 100 percent discipline and focus. Either you have installed that into your team and they do what you say or you don't. That's all coaching. You can run a decent half court offense with 2 Jack Warners a Brandon Landry and 2 Tubas. Harvard does it every fricking year.

It's kind of the WHOLE frickING PURPOSE of having the coach on the bench during the game.

Essentially JJ has taken off whole stretches of games and just been like, frick, hey Muss, just roll out a ball and let em go at. Thats been the level of his input.

ez, friend. you need to just stfu cuz you are just making it worse. shite then you go and say, well yeah, but if it's still an issue next year, then maybe it's a problem.

Dude, if it's a problem and a gaping hole in his coaching style, then it's a problem and a gaping hole in his coaching style. Timing is irrelevant. It shouldn't take you four years to realize it.

Hell we've all known it, but we have excused it because he recruits like Dale. We just hoped maybe he was better than we thought.

Well now we know for sure. He's not.
But we will have good players during our runs to the NIT.

There is a difference between sometimes and ALL THE TIME. Look, we hired a coach that was .500 in the Southland Conference over 11 years, nobody else was exactly knocking down his door. Why are we surprised, we got what we bargained for.