re: LSU 97, Alabama 94 - Recap

Some random thoughts on the game:

- O'bryant did a great job of handling double teams. Jones made some good adjustments having multiple cutters to the basket once the double team occurred in order to hinder Bama's defensive rotations for the double team. The passing and ball movement out of the double teams was so good that it caused Alabama to stop double teaming O'bryant for a period of time.

- Carmouche had a really nice game. He knocked down open shots, didn't force any bad ones and made the extra pass when needed.

- LSU still did a poor job of closing out on shooters in this game. Even if they are trying to get a team to shoot more from the outside, they need to have better close outs with their hands up. Coleman and Morgan have a bad habit of not even getting their hands up when closing out on a shooter.

- Hickey was no doubt the spark plug to the comeback in the last couple of minutes. I was really surprised that Jones held him out as long as he did in the second half, but the timing seemed to work perfectly.

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LSU is 5-1 When Shavon Coleman plays 36+ minutes.
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SoS, is this for the overall season? My impression is that he has struggled somewhat against SEC opponents and that's why he hasn't had a bunch of minutes vs SEC teams.???
He was awesome earlier in the year.