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Ben Simmons for four years
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:21 pm
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:21 pm
Would have changed the trajectory of LSU basketball. Marinate on that for awhile.
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Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:23 pm to genuineLSUtiger
quote:Marinate on something that had less than a 0% of a chance happening?
Marinate on that for awhile.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:24 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Do the other schools get their nba guys back too?
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:24 pm to genuineLSUtiger
It seems the trajectory of LSU basketball has already changed for the better
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:26 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Imagine if Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, James Harden and Ben Simmons all came to LSU and stayed for four years.
Do you see how crazy and unrealistic what I posted was? What you posted is just as crazy and unrealistic.
Do you see how crazy and unrealistic what I posted was? What you posted is just as crazy and unrealistic.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:31 pm to Hold That Tiger 10
quote:His last thread was asking us to imagine if Simmons, who's been gone for 3 years, was on this team.
Do you see how crazy and unrealistic what I posted was? What you posted is just as crazy and unrealistic.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:35 pm to LsuTool
quote:
Do the other schools get their nba guys back too?
/thread
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:36 pm to genuineLSUtiger
This team with Pistol Pete!!!
Marinate on that. Wow!
Marinate on that. Wow!
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:40 pm to genuineLSUtiger
quote:
Ben Simmons
Actually did change the trajectory of LSU basketball. It was OBVIOUS that he was a phenom, and LSU was still unable to reach the tourney because of poor poor coaching. Ben Simmons enabled us to get rid of Johnny sooner than we might have
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:42 pm to genuineLSUtiger
All Ben Simmons did was waste a spot on the team that couldve been used for someone else.
This post was edited on 1/25/19 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 1/25/19 at 8:45 pm to WDcajun
Or Ben Simmons had LSU plastered all over nearly every sports talk show for almost an entire calender year. LSU would have been an afterthought without him.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 9:06 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Pete Maravich playing four years worth of stats. What could have been.
Keeping Simmons and Jones? No thank you.
Keeping Simmons and Jones? No thank you.
Posted on 1/25/19 at 9:14 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Man this board knows so little about basketball. Unreal, has to be a troll post.
Posted on 1/26/19 at 2:36 am to LSUButt
quote:
Actually did change the trajectory of LSU basketball. It was OBVIOUS that he was a phenom, and LSU was still unable to reach the tourney because of poor poor coaching. Ben Simmons enabled us to get rid of Johnny sooner than we might have
And many thanks to the basketball gods that Eddie Nunez (Former Florida basketball player) was around to find WW.
No doubt that Alleva would've brought in yet another "In over his Head" coach from heaven's knows where.
Posted on 1/26/19 at 2:49 am to genuineLSUtiger
I wasn't terribly interested when he was here for a year, and neither was he. I was fine with him leaving when he did.
Posted on 1/26/19 at 3:34 am to genuineLSUtiger
The trajectory of LSU BBL got much better when he left. Physical skills alone don't make a team great.
Posted on 1/26/19 at 4:53 am to TigerLunatik
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Or Ben Simmons had LSU plastered all over nearly every sports talk show for almost an entire calender year. LSU would have been an afterthought without him.
They were still an afterthought. They talked about him and they talked about what a joke LSU was. That's not the type of publicity I want. As if no one knew who LSU was before Ben Simmons. This may not have been a great basketball school for a long time, but it's a prestigious athletic program, all around.
His time here did nothing to further LSU's image. James Harden went to Arizona State. Kevin Durant went to Texas. Russell Westbrook went to UCLA. How are those schools all doing? Where's the uptick in recruiting? They're hit or miss. And UCLA has TONS of historical figures to point to.
I've made this point before, and I'll say it again: Winning brings recruits. A coach who players believe in brings recruits. Having big time players on your team is supposed to help you recruit other players, while those big name players are there. It can't, and won't help you much, if any, AFTER those players leave, if you aren't winning. History bears that out. Whatever John Calipari was selling at Memphis, it was bringing in big time recruits every year. when he went to Kentucky, it followed him, and the recruiting dried up for Memphis when the next guy took over.
Why? Because no one cared who had played there before. No one knew who Josh Pastner was. But they knew where Calipari went. Will Wade's hard work has turned this program around. I'm not about to give any of that credit to a guy who was here for 5 minutes, and made it all about himself.
This post was edited on 1/26/19 at 4:56 am
Posted on 1/26/19 at 6:19 am to genuineLSUtiger
Who is Ben Simons?
Posted on 1/26/19 at 6:46 am to genuineLSUtiger
Would have been a disaster...
Posted on 1/26/19 at 7:56 am to genuineLSUtiger
Ben Simmons for 4 years with Will Wade for the last 3 of those, sure.
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