re: LSU Hoops vs Miss St - PMAC - 4:00pm SAT - ESPNU

This basketball is a very strange sport. This team has been almost impossible to predict. You never know what you are going to get. Consistency is what CJJ has been after but it is very elusive.

Who will show up against Miss State? The LSU team of the first half or the LSU team of the second half?

Will Carmouche play a brilliant floor game with steals and assists or will he be the player of the last game who looked completely out of control and made turnover after turnover?

Will Hickey be our billiant point guard who plays great defense and fires in three pointers while performing theivery against the opposing team? Or will he be the foul plagued, not very efective Hickey who can't get a shot off?

Will JOB continue his string of double doubles? Will he still be able to dominate when there is a player taller than 6'5" on him? How many times will he get the ball six feet or more away from the basket and be able to dribble his way in and score? How many times will he post up low and we actually get the ball to him?

Does Stringer continue to be the most consistent player on the team? Will he pop in those open threes or try and push it too hard when the play isn't there?

Does our free throw shooting continue to be much improved or do we go back to the early season?

Time will tell. We should beat Miss State but that doesn't mean we will. That ball takes too many strange hops and our players make too many bad decisions for there ever to be certainty. But I will go out on a limb and say Tigers by 6.