re: Basketball - LSU 70 @ 89 Boise St. | Final |Tigers Suffer 1st Loss

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And I said we would live and die by the three's and tonight we died!

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Collins picked up some the slack and saved our 3PT shooting % from looking horribad. Stringer did not do very well, but he's playing more than he supposed to. He needs to come off the bench and play his role as he did earlier in the season.

I was pissed but I got some pizza and now I'm full and alright. They weren't going undefeated but I would have liked to show up tonight. A 2-1 road trip would be good.

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So is it time to fire Jones?

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He's had his chance to turn this team into a winner and hasn't done it.

LSU is *always* one of the top 3-4 teams in the SEC. I know. I follow LSU hoops very closely. I was just in the PMAC a couple seasons ago, when Stromile Smith and Tyrus Thompson were here.

We just can't lose on the road to a terrible team like the University of Boise.

I say fire the staff, pull all the scholarships and forfeit the rest of the schedule.

I'm still riding high, but that might be because I had a Christmas party and couldn't watch the game. We all knew what we were this year going into this season. NIT is still in play. Give me just a little to get excited about until help arrives next year and I'm a happy man.

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I saw a lot of Tigers being indecisive and not taking initiative.

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That will never be an issue for Stringer, and for the most part that's been an issue for the team over his career. Look at his career shooting percentage.

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He does better imo as a facilitator from outside the paint and plays better when paired with a dribble-driver.

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I agree. He is not a good enough ball handler to create his shot against better teams.

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I still think the team is much better with Stringer on the floor and I hope he continues getting 25 min+ per game.

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He was 1-10 last night and honestly there have been more games like that over his career than good shooting nights.

Bottom line is IMHO Stringer is an average to mediocre shooter who believes himself to be a good shooter. And his range is not as far as he believes it to be. Man if he hit 1 of every 3 or 4 of those 30 footers he takes I'd cut him some slack but he's probably more like 1 for every 6 or 7 on those.

He's started the year out each of his 3 shooting decently. He tailed off fairly dramatically his first two years. I hope he can end that trend this year.

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still more exciting to watch this team and know the program is growing and will only get better.

lets not discount the fact that boise st's arena had 12,000+ fans, giving them something to play for and a lot of motivation.

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Without question. I've always said that if you don't really have guys who can create their own shot against better teams, why slow the game down and try to grind it out half court. That just doesn't make sense.

Try to get some early offense before the other team sets up so you don't have to beat your head against the wall.

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lets not discount the fact that boise st's arena had 12,000+ fans, giving them something to play for and a lot of motivation.

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I actually thought the crowd might energize our kids too. I'm not into BS excuses like the long flight affected us, but the fact that we got absolutley killed on the boards by a team that was small and had not really done that to anyone else makes me think we just lacked energy last night. That and getting beaten so consistenlty and badly off the dribble all night.

Cause that really should not have happened.

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I still think the team is much better with Stringer on the floor and I hope he continues getting 25 min+ per game.

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Disagree completely. Stringer is best used and most effective in spurts. The more he is on the floor the more his weaknesses expose themselves. Plus having he and Hickey on the court at the same time for too long is too much of a defensive liability, especially in a half court game, and he is certainly not more valuable than hickey is. The best possible lineup for this years team that needs to be on the court as much as possible is hickey, Carmouche, Morgan, Coleman, O'Bryant.

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My take is that he's just not an above average shooter and he's been asked/allowed to do more than he's capable of under both Trent, and I think even now with Johnny.

Now with Hickey being back and the continued improvement of Collins I think his minutes likely trend back downward, but I think he can still be effective in a role, but I think his role needs to be more clearly defined.

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He is a much better than average shooter but only when he is open and set. The problem is that in a game like last night when nothing is working he thinks he has to take over the offense. He then shoots hurried shots and shoots with guys in his face or shoots from so far away that I would need a telescope to see the goal.

He needed to work harder at setting someone else up but he admittedly wasn't getting much help from his teammates. In the first half JOB wasn't passing the ball back at all once it went to him. Del Piero was playing his first road game and looked like a deer in the headlights. Carmouche didn't look like himself and couldn't hit a shot for anything. Morgan was reluctant to shoot. So . . . Stringer from 25 off the dribble with a man in his face. Results predictable.