re: Lsu basketball Bahamas

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This was one of the downsides of Mcmahon's offense at Murray state. His offense has a lot of fast-paced movement, especially off ball and it lead to a lot of turnovers. His last season at Murray State was one of their best turnover-wise and they still averaged around 11 turnovers a game. Outside of that, his teams averaged almost 14 a game, which is a lot. May have been from illegal screen calls, but those 20 TO/game needs to come down to around 12 to not be completely detrimental in SEC play

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To be fair though, TOs per possession is probably the more relevant stat than the raw TO number. For instance, if I have 85 possessions in a game and 15 turnovers, that's not as bad as 60 possessions and only 11 turnovers.

If LSU is going to play an up tempo game with a large number of possessions, I'm ok living with 13, 14 TOs per game (though you always want less than that). But if LSU is going to play a slow paced, low possession game, then they cannot afford to have 13-15 turnovers because in a low possession game you are only going to have so many opportunities to score.

However, 20 TOs per game is NEVER and acceptable nubmer