What is happening at the end of of LSU Basketball games?

I ve been telling friends that for weeks LSU doesnt know how to close....its an alarming trend.

They don't have a guy that can create his own shot. When your 2 best guards are under 6ft, you will struggle to get shots, especially to close out games trying to run clock.

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I think we called one, with about 2:30 left in overtime, after we were down 7 points.

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Yeah, just went back and looked at the play by play. He did finally call one after Ole Miss had gone on a 14-2 run. And he called another with about a minute remaining. Sorry for the misinformation. Still terrible.

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One big problem for closing is that we don't have a "go to guy". If we feed it to JOB, they will trap and he may get fouled and sent to the free throw line (57% shooter), or worse he may turn it over. Hickey can handle the ball, but what good is his drive when every defender knows he is too small to finish at the rim and has to rely on a pull up jumper.

Even with that, it's frustrating to watch us not run an offense and just watch the shot clock roll down until we force up a bad shot.

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Very frustrating.

1st Overtime Summary
TIME LSU SCORE OLE MISS
4:37 Andre Stringer missed Three Point Jumper. 69-69
4:37 69-69 Ole Miss Defensive Rebound.
4:34 Foul on Johnny O'Bryant III. 69-69
4:34 69-69 Demarco Cox missed Free Throw.
4:34 Jarell Martin Defensive Rebound. 69-69
4:04 Anthony Hickey missed Three Point Jumper. 69-69
4:04 69-69 Ole Miss Defensive Rebound.
3:47 69-71 Jarvis Summers made Jumper.
3:28 Jarell Martin missed Jumper. 69-71
3:28 69-71 LaDarius White Defensive Rebound.
3:00 69-71 Sebastian Saiz missed Layup.
3:00 Jordan Mickey Block. 69-71
2:58 69-71 Sebastian Saiz Offensive Rebound.
2:58 69-73 Sebastian Saiz made Layup.
2:57 Foul on Jarell Martin. 69-73
2:57 69-73 Sebastian Saiz missed Free Throw.
2:57 69-73 Aaron Jones Offensive Rebound.
2:54 69-76 Marshall Henderson made Three Point Jumper.
2:47 LSU Timeout
2:29 Anthony Hickey missed Three Point Jumper. 69-76
2:29 69-76 Sebastian Saiz Defensive Rebound.
2:24 Foul on Johnny O'Bryant III. 69-76
2:24 69-77 Sebastian Saiz made Free Throw.
2:24 69-78 Sebastian Saiz made Free Throw.
1:57 Shavon Coleman missed Three Point Jumper. 69-78
1:57 69-78 Jarvis Summers Defensive Rebound.
1:36 69-80 Aaron Jones made Dunk. Assisted by Jarvis Summers.
1:22 Shavon Coleman made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Anthony Hickey. 72-80
1:18 LSU Timeout
1:10 Foul on Anthony Hickey. 72-80
1:10 72-81 Marshall Henderson made Free Throw.
1:10 72-82 Marshall Henderson made Free Throw.
1:02 Jarell Martin Turnover. 72-82
1:02 72-82 LaDarius White Steal.
0:57 Foul on Shavon Coleman. 72-82
0:57 72-83 Jarvis Summers made Free Throw.
0:57 72-84 Jarvis Summers made Free Throw.
0:51 Shavon Coleman missed Three Point Jumper. 72-84
0:51 72-84 Sebastian Saiz Defensive Rebound.
0:46 Foul on Jarell Martin. 72-84
0:46 72-85 Sebastian Saiz made Free Throw.
0:46 72-86 Sebastian Saiz made Free Throw.
0:33 Andre Stringer missed Three Point Jumper. 72-86
0:33 Jordan Mickey Offensive Rebound. 72-86
0:27 Jordan Mickey missed Layup. 72-86
0:27 72-86 Sebastian Saiz Block.
0:24 72-86 Sebastian Saiz Defensive Rebound.
0:09 72-88 Aaron Jones made Dunk. Assisted by Marshall Henderson.
0:02 Anthony Hickey made Jumper. 74-88
0:00 End of Game

Only 3 shots that weren't 3 pointers were even attempted in OT. And we are supposed to have a good front court...remember?

last 4 possession of regulation


hold the ball with hickey until 7 seconds left and take a bad shot
stringer gets fouled on ole miss's end and walk down and shoots free throws (not really a possession per se)
hold the ball with hickey until 7 seconds left and take a bad shot
hold the ball with hickey until 7 seconds left and take a bad shot

why the frick did JJ stop running the offense completely with 2 minutes still left in the game. you understand it with the last possession because you wanted to take the last shot but the two possessions prior are inexcusable.

Hickey is really hurting us this year

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why the frick did JJ stop running the offense completely with 2 minutes still left in the game. you understand it with the last possession because you wanted to take the last shot but the two possessions prior are inexcusable.

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I don't have a problem with the strategy if you have a guy that can create. In college ball, you can take half a minute off the clock with one possession, so I understand milking the clock with the lead. Problem is we don't have a guy that is a creator.

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He did finally call one after Ole Miss had gone on a 14-2 run. And he called another with about a minute remaining. Sorry for the misinformation. Still terrible.

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Yep, I wasn't really trying to defend JJ on the lack of timeouts in the last few minutes of regulation. For that last play, we got an open look, so I have no problems with that. But bbap's post shows that we went at least the final 2 minutes of the game, and the first 3 minutes of overtime with only scoring on two free throws when we were fouled in the back court. We did not have good shots coming down the stretch.

also on one possession hickey gets blocked and the ball goes out in the corner with 3 seconds left on the shot clock. there is less than 2 minutes left and you are inbounding from the corner.

you have 3 fricking timeouts. use one to try and get a play set up that at least gets you somewhat of a chance at scoring. possessions are crucial at that point and JJ is like naw im good.

oh yeah i see now you made that exact point.

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hold the ball with hickey until 7 seconds left and take a bad shot
hold the ball with hickey until 7 seconds left and take a bad shot

why the frick did JJ stop running the offense completely with 2 minutes still left in the game. you understand it with the last possession because you wanted to take the last shot but the two possessions prior are inexcusable.

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This is the most frustrating part of blowing this game in my mind. The amount of times I have seen us at the end of halves run the clock down to nothing and take a horrible shot is unreal.