Uhm..................clearly you have not been following this team this season. The team was on a 10 game winning streak then lost a close road game at Florida. The next game they played Tennessee IN KNOXVILLE. They lost the backup point guard (who's also the starting 2-guard) two minutes into the game. They lost the starting point guard to a season ending ACL tear 1 second before halftime. At the half the score was tied 26-26. The very next game they had to adjust to having NO POINT GUARDS and tried to play Barrett at the point. The result.....................? 27 turnovers. Last night they let Lutley run the point starting in the second half. The result.........? She had 16 pts 5 reb 3 ast and 2 stl. Clearly, we know who should be running the point at this stage of the season. This is a good team who's lost their point guards. They're really going to have to come together to overcome that. But, they ARE a good team. Without those injuries they'd more than likely be 17-3 or 16-4 right now, as opposed to 14-6.

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Posted by lsursb

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Posted on 1/25/12 at 11:16 am to lsualum96

I agree with your assessment and the injuries hurt us on offense and transition, but the big problem over the last 3 games is we simply have not bothered to guard the outside shooters. Arkansas killed us with 3 pointer after 3 pointer after 3 pointer and we never adjusted. Last night ETSU hit 10 3 pointers and again we never made any adjustments to take away the wide open 3s. I don't understand that. Another problem I see is inconsistency. Barrett may give you 20 points and 10 rebounds one night and then 2 points and 1 rebound the next. Same with Jones. I have also never seen a team just allow opponents to simply take the ball out of hands more than this team. We get a rebound and the other player just snatches the ball away. We stand and look around for someone to pass to and the defender just reaches out and takes the ball out of our hand. Also, the interior passing is atrocious. We seem to think we can pass the ball into the lane with 3 defenders between the passer and the post player and not get the ball stolen. It happens over and over and over.

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