re: Matt freaking McMahon

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I thought we would see Baker take more of a KJ Williams role. Particularly working the pick and pop 3. But LSU just hasn't done that. Instead, they've kept him inside where he's often been overmatched.

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I never actually thought about that - but I guess I should have as Baker was supposed to be a decent 3-point threat, although I've not seen much evidence of it at least here....7-21 for the year.

That they tried to force him as a primary threat inside as you say, has troubled me all year, as Nichols in the second game showed how to easily counter that, and every team that has chosen to do the same since has easily shut him down.

As you say I'd start giving Dean more of Baker's minutes. He does not possess the scoring potential of Baker, but does IMHO...everything else better and besides as I said above it's too easy to take Baker out of the offensive mix the way we are using him.