Chest and Vyc Miller

The Mcmen don’t agree for now give them 10 months and they will and use it as another excuse

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The Mcmen don’t agree for now give them 10 months and they will and use it as another excuse

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This is 100% true.

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Losing Chest and Vyc hurt!

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It was pathetic that McMahon did not kick them off the team during the season.

I agree here, if they had been contacted and were sitting out not due to injury McLoser has no balls for not kicking them

Lady Scone and Hunty are just following the script from the administration.

"The Big Time".

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“I’m certainly not looking to re-recruit or bring anyone back once they’ve made that decision,” McMahon said. “Wish them all the very best.”

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He also said this...

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“There’s been a great investment in men’s basketball, and I think we’re really well positioned – not only from a retention standpoint, but the ability to go out and sign the players in the transfer portal that are going to come in here and impact winning, and allow us to build a NCAA Tournament team.”

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I'll jump in here.

The roster that was assembled for the 2024-25 season wasn't nearly good enough to compete in this SEC. Now, you're looking at a league that is about to put four or five teams in the elite 8 with another losing in overtime of the Sweet 16, but it wasn't good enough. Period.

Both Vyctorius Miller and Corey Chest have potential.

Chest is a great athlete who can really rebound. He doesn't, at this point, have another skill to offer. He's an average defender, horrendous shooter and cannot create with the ball on offense at all. At 6-foot-8, he's a little undersized for the skillset that he has. That sounds more like a seven footer. He's a role player.

Miller shows some flashes, but he shot 34% from the floor, 29% from three and 63% on free throws in league games. He created nine assists in 209 minutes on the floor. He's still a developmental player.

In this era of college basketball, what you might be able to do in 2 or 3 years doesn't really matter. What can you do right now?

Does losing these guys hurt? We can't know until we know who LSU replaces them with. THAT'S what ultimately matters.

Part of my job is understanding that I'll be mischaracterized half the time because people often hear what they want to hear instead of what I say.

I've never once said Matt McMahon was close to "turning a corner". I've never excused 3-15. In fact, I think it's misguided to have strong conviction that LSU will be a good basketball team next year. I also think that it's worth spending with the rest of the league this offseason to see if McMahon can 1. assemble a better team and 2. coach it.

If he can't (which is a real possibility), ok. Go get a new coach. If he can....great. You've found that out, and now you saved the $10mm to buy him out and $3mm/year to hire the new guy and staff.

I'm saddened by the state of LSU basketball. I LOVED the Wade era. It may have been indirectly helpful in my landing a dream job.

I'm also capable of evaluating the reality of LSU basketball without crying about three years ago in some hopes that I can go back in time.

To me personally, discussing this transfer portal is more interesting and meaningful than rehashing Woodward v Wade 2021.

I may be dead wrong, but I don't think Vyc Miller, Corey Chest or any of the other guys in the portal are key pieces to a 2025-26 team that wins 11 or 12 SEC games. Maybe a 7th man. you can find a new 7th man from Iona or Ohio or Morehead State or North Florida (those are literally where the best players in the SEC came from).

I'll wait until the roster is complete before I assess the departures. And I'll probably err the side of optimism in May. We'll see in November/December.

Back to baseball.

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Anyone that didn't want to keep Vyctorius and Chest for next season is full of shite.

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Of course, anyone who is reasonable wants to keep them. How much it hurts will be dictated by who we get to replace them. I can't say I am all that hopefully we get anything better than what we are losing.

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Of course, anyone who is reasonable wants to keep them.

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That's the trick - finding out who thinks reasonably.

A few days ago, the story being told was with Vyc and Chest back, along with some others, we have a decent young core for CoachMc to worth with and add to with the incoming freshman and NIL $$ portal.

Now the story from some are, let Chest and Vyc go, we didn't need them anyway, they were overrated and each only brought unneeded rebounding and potential scoring, respectively.

These dudes are bi-polar or something.

You’re a puppet and an imbecile.