Absolutely agree. I didn’t watch any games, so I have no clue about the style of play these teams are playing. I don’t know how much can be taken away from this tournament except maybe we can shoot open 3’s better and we don’t have a dominant rebounding big man from what I can tell. Sometimes teams play sloppy around teams they know are inferior. Last years team would have come in and likely gone 3-0 against this competition as well.

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Posted by GeorgeWest

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Member since Nov 2013

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Posted on 8/11/23 at 1:59 am to Mats86

WE just played 3 games using International Rules. Let us play 3-5 games by NCAA Rules in November before we decide TO's are a big problem.

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Posted by Alt26

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Posted on 8/11/23 at 9:48 am to Mats86

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Last years team would have come in and likely gone 3-0 against this competition as well.

Maybe. Though Puerto Rico probably would have been a tough out. You obviously can't get a great predictive picture based upon the level of competition. However, you can argue LSU did what good teams should do to bad teams...beat the hell out of them. Games 2-3 were never close

The game vs Puerto Rico didn't look like it was going to be close either. LSU led by 20 at the half. Compare that to Iowa St v. PR (ISU led by 9 at half) and A&M v PR (A&M led by 6). LSU just had an epically bad 3rd quarter to allow PR to gain the lead, ultimately resulting in a very close comeback win for LSU.

The only potentially predictive evidence you can take from the week is comparing LSU's performance to that of the other US teams. In that regard, LSU was equal to 3 other teams who are all projected to be NCAAT caliber teams this year. If you want to be optimistic, that's your basis.

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