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re: What freshman year was more anticipated between...
Posted on 5/3/20 at 10:52 pm to Lsualum2017
Posted on 5/3/20 at 10:52 pm to Lsualum2017
Kevin Faulk.
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Posted on 5/3/20 at 11:06 pm to MMauler
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Kevin Faulk.
Faulk had a ton of hype (especially since the Curley Hallman era had just ended and LSU had so little to look forward to during that stretch). But he came before the Internet was gigantic with everyone. He was up there with Fournette as far as the fans being excited. Fournette just had the hype in much bigger numbers (from LSU fans to fans of every other school looking to see what he would do). Fournette was the most anticipated recruit in LSU sports that I can remember.
In basketball, I remember Randy Livingston getting a ton of hype as the #1 high school player in the nation coming out of high school. But again, that was before the Internet really.
Posted on 5/3/20 at 11:17 pm to Lsualum2017
LF7 came in as a once in a lifetime all time great recruit. It was him.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:58 am to Lsualum2017
Russell Shepard
Posted on 5/4/20 at 7:42 am to Rickdaddy4188
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Well play team ball for one. He was the total anti-thesis to team ball.
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Well play team ball for one. He was the total anti-thesis to team ball.
Two Simmons hater comment highlights the irony of those guys.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 8:24 am to Lsualum2017
Fournette hands down!
Posted on 5/4/20 at 8:47 am to Lester Earl
Stingley had a better freshmen season than LF, anticipation aside
Posted on 5/4/20 at 12:48 pm to The Eric
It's Fournette, hands down.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 2:04 pm to lsutigertalk
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or make a jump shot.
Shaq was such a disappointment
Posted on 5/4/20 at 2:10 pm to BentonTiger7
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This. I don't get the hate for Simmons. He is one of the top 5 talents to ever play basketball at LSU.
1. Our fans are retarded when it comes to basketball
2. They had it in their minds that we were getting a Kevin Durant- like player and were disappointed he wasn’t going to get 30 points on a regular basis.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 2:18 pm to TheTexasTiger7
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The letdown was on Johnny Jones. Simmons was a damn star that year.
Some of you arse holes just can't let it fricking go, can you?
Posted on 5/4/20 at 2:22 pm to Lsualum2017
To answer your question it’s Fournette
But I’ll offer another non-football candidate for most freshman hype: Alex Bregman
But I’ll offer another non-football candidate for most freshman hype: Alex Bregman
Posted on 5/4/20 at 2:42 pm to Lsualum2017
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What freshman year was more anticipated
Garry James
Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:13 pm to TheTexasTiger7
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The letdown was on Johnny Jones
I agree he should've made him play in the low post more...where he absolutely dominated. He was great with dribble and drive from the top of the ke but then sec teams realized he had NO jumop shot and started sagging off him. Every in bound play in the low post for him was money. BS didn't want to play down low...to me that isn't a team player.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:13 pm to tigersbb
Are you retarded? I said Johnny Jones was a shitty coach, if you even try to argue that you’re a fricking idiot. I replied to a guy who shite on Ben Simmons and said it was on Johnny Jones. Take a hike a-hole.
This post was edited on 5/4/20 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:23 pm to Lsualum2017
Fournette.
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Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:27 pm to blueridgeTiger
You can make a case for Garry James or Faulk and I followed both of those.
However, I think the answer is Fournette.
However, I think the answer is Fournette.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 3:34 pm to KingofthePoint
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or make a jump shot.
Shaq was such a disappointment
I know this answer is tongue-in-cheek to make a point, and it’s received. But in retrospect, he kinda was. For as physically dominant as he was, he should have been able to will a team to at least the Sweet 16 in once in 3 years. He simply could not make free throws, and that weakness showed up at the end of close games. Hell, the strategy even spawned a name (“hack-a-Shaq”) that is still in the lexicon over 25 years later. And whether fair or not, we fans feel like not being able to shoot something as close as a free throw is simply a matter of not caring enough to practice it enough to fix it.
Same thing with Simmons. He doesn’t pass so much out of some selfless, philanthropic sense of teamwork, he passes because he can’t fricking shoot. And again, we feel like that is directly related to how much (or how little) he cares to work on it. We want them to care as much as we do, to emotionally live and die with each win or loss. And since we literally can’t do anything to affect the result, when we see as something that even we could do (practice shooting) it being done, it frustrates us immensely and we project that frustration onto the player. Which isn’t fair, but comes with the job.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent. The answer to this OP is Fournette, nobody else is remotely close.
And a lot of folks were offended by Simmons’ refusal to play in the NIT. It left a sour taste in our mouths and confirmed his suspected apathy.
Posted on 5/4/20 at 4:29 pm to TheTexasTiger7
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I said Johnny Jones was a shitty coach,
The knee jerk vapid response every time Johnny Jones is mentioned is absurd. What is so shitty about this:
2012–13 LSU 19–12 9–9 T–8th
2013–14 LSU 20–14 9–9 T–6th NIT Second Round
2014–15 LSU 22–11 11–7 T–3rd NCAA First Round
2015–16 LSU 19–14 11–7 T–3rd
2016–17 LSU 10–21 2–16 T–13th
He took a moribund program from Trent Johnson an had three top half SEC seasons, narrowly missed a fourth in his first season and would have had an NCAA berth had Keith Hornsby not gotten injured in the last two weeks of 2016. He only had one losing SEC season, the last when Quarterman unexpectedly left and Craig Victor was booted.
I am not claiming he was great, but his tenure was hardly the disaster some of you make this out to be. I am glad we have Wade and it was time to make a change as his support base had dropped but he serves more respect
Posted on 5/4/20 at 6:11 pm to BentonTiger7
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He is one of the top 5 talents to ever play basketball at LSU.
I don’t think you’ve watched a lot of LSU Basketball.
There are 6 or 7 players on the 1981 team alone that I would take over Ben Simmons.
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