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Nobody is perfect and anybody that knows the game of Basketball will tell you not one play loses or wins you a game. Bad shot here, turnover there, Missed box out here, missed free throw there, All the Kid has ever done at LSU is play hard and give it all he has, has never taken a game or play off, had good and bad games like any player. Never complains never had any discipline problems, handles himself with class for 4 years, but he's always been the fall guy, always the worse player. This kid is crying his eyes out because he wants to Win. I've always been the first to speak to Andre's Shortcomings. I also realize what he's accomplished He's a 5'8 basketball player playing against Giants and he will score over 1300 pts for his career and will probably end up 2nd All-time in 3'S made in LSU history. That doesn't happen if you suck. Ralston got a pass, Darenbecker got a pass, Hickey, Job, everyone gets a pass but Dre always gets Murdered...and believe me I understand this is a public forum and he deserves and can be ridiculed but to speak on this kid like he's scum is not right.. P.S. a freakin classic game and effort by these guys, after two bad loses they could have packed it in, but they came out with effort and went all out. Dre and Hickey was allowing way to much penetration from up top and that hurt us on some possessions have to tighten that up.

Sure, he's a good scorer, made some clutch 3's, kept us in games when our poor shooting team couldn't hit the side of a barn, plays hard, etc., but he's a severe liability on D as are all guards his size. And when he's got the ball with 10 seconds left with the game on the line, he's rarely gonna get up a clean shot under 30 ft. with 6'5 guards defending him. I've said over and over that we've got to stop recruiting 5'10" guards. It just doeesn't work in today's college game.