It's called basketball i.q....this is how I knew we would lose. All it took me was to watch a couple of games to know lsu isn't next level, not yet. Until lsu plays with a higher basketball iq, we will continue to have seasons like this. Don't get me wrong being in the playoffs every year is nice but the teams that play a smart game usually go to the final 16/8/4 more often

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Posted by Pnels08

Member since Jul 2014

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Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:55 pm to Tigerbait1977

Looking at the game I didn't see anyway we would stop them. We had to double dickerson in the post. Which is always going to leave someone open. I just thought we were screwed If mich made shots and they did.

The only thing I could think of is maybe just letting dickerson eat you Alive and try and take him out by fouls.

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Posted by Imber

Member since Sep 2017

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Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:55 pm to Tigerbait1977

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Eli brooks season high was 17 prior to tonight. He had 21 tonight, and set a career high in threes made.

That tends to happen when you leave a player wide open from three point range the whole night. That was the single biggest lack of adjustment in my mind. He killed us.

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Posted by LSU713

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Member since Dec 2003

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Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:57 pm to TigerBR1111

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In a 5 game series Michigan probably wins 3. The big men and lack therefore for LSU make a difference.

Are y’all serious? We played almost as well as we can in 1H and we’re down at half. We had 3 turnovers the whole game! Watford playing like he did and Days with under 10 points is not a rare occurrence.

Michigan was a better TEAM; they have so many more options than us and passed the ball great.

We threw a lot of haymakers but they responded like the strong team they are.

Great game Tigers! This is why being an 8 seed sucked

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Posted by SofaKingTrill

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Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:57 pm to kciDAtaE

The difference was LSU went cold during the middle of the second half and only scored 1 point over a 5 minute stretch. And they had several opportunities to score but missed floaters in the lane, Watford missed Free throws, etc, etc. You can't score nothing for 5 Minutes in the second half against the 1 seed and expect to win. The same thing happened in the first half except it was a four minute stretch. So LSU went 9 minutes in a 40 minute game only scoring a point. The officials made some horrible calls but the fact that LSU only lost by 8 when only scoring for 32 minutes makes the point. Had they not gone cold for so long this game, they win.

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Posted by MOT

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Posted on 3/22/21 at 9:57 pm to Pnels08

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try and take him out by fouls.

He should have been in foul trouble much sooner than he was, and it took him committing a stupid foul from behind at mid court that they absolutely just couldn’t let go to get him to the point where he had to be taken out.

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Posted by Kingpenm3

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Posted on 3/22/21 at 10:35 pm to Tigerbait1977

They also got to play a 16 seed 2 days ago.

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Posted by semjase

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Member since May 2014

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Posted on 3/22/21 at 10:58 pm to Imber

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That tends to happen when you leave a player wide open from three point range the whole night.

Flash back to the first game of the season against the Crimson Devils.

I choose not to type out the actual name of the school, because if there are any LSU Athletes on here, they'll be traumatized by seeing A-----A. (Judging by their winless records against all A-----A teams so far this year)

BTW, A-----A took care of business tonight against Maryland, 96-77.