Folks that's just bad bad bad basketball. The fundamentals are just horrible. Literally looks the best kids on their high school teams who got away without perfecting the details of blocking out, free throw shooting, defensive positioning etc. all thrown together for one big street ball crud-fest.

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Posted by BR Tiger

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Posted on 11/24/15 at 6:46 pm to geauxjo

Sometimes hard to see in person- but on TV did it look like the game was called well? I only ask because they were in the double bonus with about 5 minutes to go in the second half (maybe earlier but that's when I noticed) and they only had 5 fouls called the entire second half + overtime. I know we were playing some bad basketball, but that's quite a discrepancy in the number of fouls.

I hope this trip serves as a wake up call for this team and coaching staff. If Simmons thinks he can coast through SEC play and not hurt his draft stock a little he's mistaken. Of course he did have a horrible night and still ended up with a double double before he fouled out.

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Posted by OC504

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Member since Jan 2014

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Posted on 11/24/15 at 7:45 pm to geauxjo

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all thrown together for one big street ball crud-fest.

Its not really STREETBALL!!!!!!!!! Its 1 distributor and 4 shooting guards RIGHT NOW until C Victor and K Hornsby return. Our best advantage is transition baskets and ACCURATE shooting. Malone, Bridgewater, Epps and even ERIII aren't serviceable in the post defensively or rebounding Our team looks better scoring in transition due to athleticism but then you probably don't like the NBA either... your other points are valid as far as defensive positioning and blocking out. If they would teach J Gray to penetrate and dish to Simmons, and Simmons getting a mid-range shot to aide Hornsby along with Victor protecting the rim LSU would be unstoppable!!!