re: Bball is losing for two reasons.

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He needs to hire a guru to teach an offensive concept. They really don't have one or its the wrong one.

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Perhaps you forgot LSU was a good to elite offensive team for the first 4 years of Wade's tenure. It was the defense that was awful. Wade didn't forget how to teach offense. It's that the offensive approach he had in those first 4 seasons isn't effective with THIS group of players. The foundation of Wade's offense is spacing and ball screens. He puts a ton of playmaking responsibility on the guards. They are asked to create the offense. In year 1 and 2 he had the best PG since Chris Jackson on his team in Waters, along with a solid vet at SG in Mays. In years 3-4 he had Smart at PG who could create his own shot anytime he wanted. Last year he coupled that with probably the best pure scorer he's at the SG spot in Thomas.

This year LSU doesn't have that level of guard play. So when much of your offense relies on the guards creating it you are only as good as those players. You are seeing the results.

On the flip-side you are seeing the results of dogged defensive guard play (something Wade didn't really have in his first 4 years)