After watching the first 5 or 6 games the guys seemed more confident and knew their role. Now it appears they all run around scared to death to make a mistake or miss a shot. It reminds me of a two quarterback football team where the guy on the field is looking over his shoulder to see if he was going to get pulled or his replacement was warming up on the sidelines.
Even a veteran like JOB is back to being a turnover king. The first of the year, I saw he had improved his passing but now he's back to, "I'm gonna drive or shoot if I get the ball".
Knowing this team is fairly talented, it is like getting a tooth pulled watching these guys. I too am happy with the win but we have to learn how to put teams away when we get that 10-12 point lead.
Then it becomes shooting free throws(22-35 won't get it) which we did poorly in the last 3 minutes. Both Hickey and Stringer seem to be so tentative when shooting 3's right now. Although without Stringer's two late 3's we don't win.
Still a young team but it will get a lot tougher as more and more team defend us with the zone.
It'll get better.

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Posted by LSUAlum2001

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Posted on 1/11/14 at 8:52 pm to bmistr1023

Wtf is our deal?

We seem to give back comfortable leads late in the games when we have them, and get beat by lesser teams when we shouldn't.

It's mind-bottling.

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Posted by Tiger Ugly

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Posted on 1/12/14 at 12:48 pm to bmistr1023

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After watching the first 5 or 6 games the guys seemed more confident and knew their role. Now it appears they all run around scared to death to make a mistake or miss a shot. It reminds me of a two quarterback football team where the guy on the field is looking over his shoulder to see if he was going to get pulled or his replacement was warming up on the sidelines. Even a veteran like JOB is back to being a turnover king. The first of the year, I saw he had improved his passing but now he's back to, "I'm gonna drive or shoot if I get the ball".

This bothers me to bmistr. The seeming regression in quality of play of late, particularly with veterans like Hickey and JOB3, worries me.

Good to see Martin come with probably his best all around game. We need him to be more than just a jump shooter and he gave us more than that yesterday.

And finally we improved rebounding the ball. That we had struggled so much in that department of late really floored me. That should not have been an issue to the extent it was IMHO.

Now if we can shore up some of the other recurring problems, maybe we can start to get back where we should be.

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