re: Adam Miller has a message:

Maybe after the bowl game it will pick up but there has been very little on TD concerning MBB. There was more about the baseball team posted on here during fall practice.

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Most "fans" didn't even know there was a game today. People need to Boot Up and get behind this team!

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I can't tell you how many times over the past 25 years I've gone to a local bar or restaurant and ask them to put a basketball game on when the LSU hoops team is playing - No. 1 because it's inexplicably not already on and then being asked "what game?"

And we've had during that stretch sometimes good teams, sometimes bad teams and all in between. But one constant is there is very little interest and awareness of LSU basketball.

It will take IMHO a significant stretch of sustained success to reverse that because the malaise is so imbedded. What remains of the basketball fan base is old and not rabid or at least not energetic at games and we're now in a second generation of fans who grew up not giving a frick about hoops and have not passed it on to their children.

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Football and baseball are the 2 major sports here and always will be.

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You are talking since the 90’s when football barely had people sitting in seats?

For a decade and a half (78-93) nothing was more consistent and exciting than men’s basketball at LSU.

The 86 football and baseball teams won with football winning the SEC and losing to shitty teams and baseball going to Omaha. There was a LOT LESS competition in the SEC and nationally then as Skip pointed out. Even today it is still a regional sport FWIW. The Cali teams have pretty much fallen by the wayside as have the Arizona and Oklahoma teams. It is all SEC pretty much thanks to Ron and Skip.

In 87 the football team made a great run losing to Bama and tied with tOSU. Yes there were exciting games with Martin and Davis and James gang with Hilliard and Gary James but basketball was exciting every game. I recall attending the LSU vs UH game with Phi Slamma Jamma in 82-83. It was an arse whipping but the students and other fans still threw newspapers on the court before the start and still gave them crap the whole game.

There were some great teams and great games at the PMAC then.

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It will pick up once SEC play starts

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until yesterday it’s been the most cupcake wins I’ve ever seen from yesterday. It’ll definitely pick up during SEC play .. as long as they win some

Me too. Was hoarse for a week. Good times.

Kinda odd for some people to come after Miller

Since the team would have 3/4 losses already without him lol

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Basketball just can’t get a solid fan foundation for some reason.

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The fact that the arena is a dump doesn't help. In fact, it really hurts.

Of course your response is stupid and ironic because you don’t understand the post. The issue is drawing the general public outside of the die hard basketball fans. When Brown was here we were scoring 90ppg, that’s an easy sell to kids and casual fans. After Brown you had Brady which was very tedious to watch playing games in the 60s. Then you had 2 bad coaches which cratered attendance, then Wade who drew interest but was marred in controversy. Again the true blue hoops fans are still going but the Deaf Dome days existed because Brown was scoring tons of points and scheduling blue bloods on CBS and ABC Saturdays. None of those things are happening anymore.

He was forcing everything because for 2 games now we can’t seem to get him the ball consistently. We run a double screen on his side which allows us no space and brings extra defenders to deny him the ball and for whatever reason we don’t just put the ball in his hands to begin with to counter. McMahon has to fix this because it’s been a problem all season where we go into scoring slumps and he’s not getting touches.

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He was 1-10. 3 point attempts are included in, not added to FG attempts you moron.

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No he didn't do that, did he?