Get healthy? Hell yes, I think everyone was at a loss for words with the team this year. Jay and DD have been in this sport for decades and have never had a team this banged up.

Routine construction? That has been my personal pet peeve over the years. I think there have been moments where we make good adjustments but there is still too many issues with our overall construction. The difficult leaps on beam need to go. Outside of Campbell, no one should be doing the switch leap to switch half. I don’t know why LSU doesn’t connect skills into beat jumps anymore, personally it’s a connection many can do and not get hit for leap position. The leaps on floor for a few routines are questionable.

Alyona needs a new routine. At the minimum a New dismount. The double layout is not consistent and begs for deductions. I don’t know what jay can do but they need to experiment this offseason. I personally don’t like her having the Maloney in there mainly because she usually has a small leg separation that she gets hit for. I really think a more watered down routine with a better dismount would be a consistent 9.9 scorer. I personally wanted a Lexie Priessman type routine construction. Difficult yet short and simple. Let her focus on polishing hand stands and toe point. When it comes down to post season, they really focus on overall execution. I am not saying abandon difficulty but you need to be smart about it.

When it gets down to it, coaches should be putting routines out there that allows them to do what they do well but also minimize deductions. Ross and Nichols aren’t getting 100s of 10s doing elite level routines. Trinity Thomas has difficulty but smart difficulty. They are not putting skills out there that are built in deductions. At LSU that is our issue right now.

DD has been made aware of some things about choreography this year. I will be interested in what she says to ACK and how they deal with it. Im not sure how the coaches can not see the issue. The routines have gone down in quality.

This post was edited on 3/16/20 at 12:13 am

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Posted by russiangym

Member since Jan 2020

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Posted on 3/16/20 at 12:43 am to Tigerbait357

I agree with everything. I first started watching in 2017 (Gnat's senior year) and there was a huge difference between how strong and fit that team was and the current team. The floor cheorography was also much better then, with different routine styles. I think it would be best to develop individual routines for the girls rather than recycle legacy routines. They also need to pay attention to the leaps on floor. I remember being quite impressed with the creativity used to develop a beam routine for McKenna. It might be a good idea to explore what other leap options are available for some of the girls with built in form errors on leaps, both for beam and floor.

For Alyona, why not a full piro into a double tuck? She competed it as a junior elite. It seems well within her capability.

I'm just glad the freshmen get a break, especially Kiya. Was getting worried for her. Competing AA weekly with a sore achilles is not a good recipe.

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Posted by tigersbb

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Posted on 3/16/20 at 1:21 am to Tigerbait357

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DD has been made aware of some things about choreography this year. I will be interested in what she says to ACK and how they deal with it. Im not sure how the coaches can not see the issue.

Is there an issue of sensitivity with objectively evaluating floor routines? The choreography is created by a volunteer coach who is also a former major star in the LSU program. It does seem LSU incorporates swag and boldness in their floor routines while other elite teams seem to be more bread and butter done very tightly.

LSU seems to get one or two who score high with this approach but there is a drastic reduction in the other scores while the steady as she goes teams seem to get those extra points which are often the difference. Can they address it without hurting feelings and being ungrateful?

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Posted by Bayougallc

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Posted on 3/16/20 at 8:19 am to Tigerbait357

TB357, Does Kai need surgery on her ankle?? She has been plagued with this for two or three years. If so, I hope they get it done so she can compete soundly nest year.

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