re: Rime or reason to this Jekyll and Hyde basketball team?

Because they're all teenagers/
lack experience? One & done=
inconsistency. except KU

sample avg age NCAA Tourney 2014:
Ohio State 20.1
Oregon 20.1
Gonzaga 20.1
Baylor 20.0
Iowa 19.9
Tennessee 19.9
Florida 19.9
Connecticut 19.9
Duke 19.8
Michigan State 19.6
Villanova 19.6
Virginia 19.5
Wisconsin 19.5
Oklahoma State 19.5
Nebraska 19.5
UCLA 19.3
Arizona 19.3
Oklahoma 19.3
North Carolina 19.0
Michigan 19.0
Colorado 18.9
Kansas 18.9
Texas 18.9
Kentucky 18.6

avg age 2014

Eta: LSU > 20 avg, so wrong "rime"

They get overconfident when they are playing teams with losing records. For this to be happening this late in the season after losing 4 games to teams they are clearly more talented then is a lack of coaching and motivating. They are not drilled to play fundermental bb.They rely solely on being more athletic then the other team. Very low BB IQ on this team.

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Rime

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Apparently, everyone goes to Evangel for the education.

Everybody has their opinions as to why and to some extent, there is probably some degree of truth to all them.

My opinion is that you have a coaching staff that (A) just doesn't stress the small things differentiate avg teams from good/great teams and (B) doesn't hold the players accountable for poor play.

My reasoning for that opinion is that the same correctable problems present themselves every game. Turnovers are the first glaring example. Jones has said countless times that because of the style of basketball LSU plays there is going to more chances for turnovers to present themselves. To an extent he's correct. But that doesn't excuse lazy passes; players driving into the lane with no direction, leaving their feet with nowhere to go with the ball; and pushing the tempo when the number clearly aren't in your favor. These things happen every game without fail and with apparent acceptance by the coaching staff.

Also, have you ever seen a team that consistently has more trouble in-bounding the ball that LSU? It is a basic element of the game that even the worst teams can generally accomplish without issue. How can the staff see that same problem over and over, yet do little to nothing to fix it?

Zone defenses just baffle LSU. Every time a team falls back into a zone it's as if LSU and the bench are seeing some newly invented defense for the first time in their lives?

Late game shot selection and general decision making. This group isn't a great 3 point shooting team, yet there have been games where LSU had leads late in games but continued to unnecessarily press the tempo and take rushed 3 pointers. The 2nd UF game was the most glaring (but not the only) example of this. The entire PMAC was going nuts because LSU, with an 11 point lead and less than 5:00 to go kept trying to push and take rushed jumpers for absolutely no reason. Jones just stood silently on the sideline and watched it happen. It took a UF team who was essentially conceding defeat nearly erasing LSU's big lead before Jones stepped in and said anything

There are spots in every game where just a small smart decision goes a long way towards winning a game. The decision not to force the tempo here; to pass up a 3 early in the shot clock there; to attack the basket instead of settling for a tough jumper when the opponent is in the bonus; to call a time out at the beginning of a potential run before it balloons into a huge run, etc. Some of that is on the players, but there has to be program wide emphasis on being a smart sound team. I think that is lacking

This team is just flat out lazy at times.