continuity in the basketball program

You don't think every good basketball program in the country faces the same challenges?

continuity doesn't help you inbound the ball

Comparing him to 2 of the top coaches and top programs in the country not really fair for CJJ

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last year it was the JOB show. he left and we don't have any continuity from last year.

this is a problem for all schools.

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So why does LSU struggle with it more than others? This is the same lame excuse applied to football. There are few program players anymore. That's just the nature of the beast.

You either learn to adapt and work with what you have, or you fall by the wayside. Simmons and Blakeney aren't coming in next year to stick around and get their degree. They will be one-and-dones.

Continuity is an excuse in December, hell even January. This team has had half of their conference schedule to gel and mesh and still looks discombobulated at times. A big part of that is due to coaching, or lackthereof.

Exactly... And we aren't a big time basketball school.

But next year tho...

We brought back 3 players who got significant playing time from last years team. The talent is there, but the understanding of how to play to each other's strengths isn't. It's year 3 of a total program rebuild, people need to give it time. Player development has been really good under JJ. JOB, Shavon, and Stringer all became significantly better players under Jones. shite, even Tuba was decent by the time he left. Now you can see Tim, Jarell, and Jordan becoming much more well rounded players then they were last year. I agree that JJ is a mediocre in game coach, but giving up now would set our program at least a decade back. No coach in his right mind would want to come here if we fired a coach who took over a dead program in year 3 after being more succesful then any LSU coach in his first three years. This program is headed in the right direction for the first time in a long time.

The players on this team aren't good enough to justify how short johnny plays the bench.

Either those guys are horrible that aren't playing, or he is employing a terrible rotation.

He's had 3 recruiting classes and he has 6 players he is comfortable putting on the floor. That isn't good enough.

I'll say this about State. They've actually been improving offensively over the last week or so...with a coach considered to be the worst in the league. And yet some of the same issues that plague us the last few years are still there at this stage of the season.

Fair enough