I didn’t bring up analytics so why do you feel the need to create a straw man? Secondly and again you have no idea how to interpret college basketball stats. You think it’s like football where you need to be top 5 in every statistical category to be efficient in it lol. I also notice you completely ignore the example I gave which means you don’t care and don’t want to educate yourself, you just wanna keep banging on the coach proving this is a personal thing not an objective position.

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Posted by Alt26

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Posted on 11/26/20 at 11:37 pm to Madking

The example you gave is from nearly 30 years ago when the average scoring was higher than it is now. Giving up 72 ppg isn’t terrible when teams were routinely scoring 80, 90, 100 ppg

The advanced metics clearly and unequivocally show that over the course of nearly 20 years NO team has won a championship with a defensive efficiency rating worse than 20. It is arguably the greatest predictor of championship success we have today. Wade’s best season was 40 spots below that.

I have nothing personal against Wade and have NEVER called for his firing on here. Not once. He’s the best HC LSU has had since Brown. However, his defense has never been good at LSU. Not even in 18-19 when, as I pointed out above, it was below average among power conf programs.

That doesn’t mean LSU can’t be “good”. They have under Wade. It just means they can’t be championship level under him with that level of defense.

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