Espn matchup predictor LSU basketball

We haven’t looked very good this year. I’m hoping we’re just a young team and we’ll grow to be better but the SEC is brutal too.

6-12 would be grounds for canning Wade



Won’t happen though

Espns fpi had us at 6-6 in football

Yep, I'm sure it's based on what we've done so far and the Okie St. and Grambling games made us look like a 6-12 SEC team though I think the talent is definitely better than that. But you got to show it and honestly we have not show we can consistently with this team. My hope of course is that changes....I think it will.

I don't think there is a person alive who knows what this team is going to do, but if Naz Reid and Tremont Waters don't change their ways soon it could be a very long year.

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but I think we can expect a sweet 16 at least

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If you are expecting that then you are setting your self up for disappointment. At this point we have beaten nobody and lost to the only good teams we've played. A tourney birth would be a start

yeah well, their football predictor is wrong most of the time as well. The only had us winning about 5 games at the beginning of the season.

Most predictors arent going to be great this early on still.

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but if Naz Reid and Tremont Waters don't change their ways soon it could be a very long year.

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Reid has definitely made an improvement in how he’s played. He was working out of the high post instead of the low post, but the majority of his shots came around the basket. He also did a better job of working within the offense and getting his teammates involved.

I don't see 6-12. But I don't see the NCAAT as a "lock" either. The SEC looks to be very strong this season and right now this team hasn't shown they can play consistent defense vs. anyone with a pulse. The one exception is that they did play pretty good D vs. FSU, only to get absolutely crushed on the boards.

Playtime is over starting this week. They go to Houston for their only true road game of the OOC schedule. Houston is well coached under Sampson and undefeated. However, they have played a terrible schedule to date. It's hard to know just how good they really are, but a road win by LSU could start to turn things back around.

After that is a neutral site game vs. St. Mary's. This probably isn't the best St. Mary's team in the last several years, but they are always a tough opponent.

Then LSU comes home to play maybe the most surprising team of the year thus far, Furman...who is currently ranked in the top 25 (though the advanced metrics say they aren't quite that good)

Even with the struggles on D, LSU will likely be favored in all 3 games. Win all three, then they are in decent shape going into SEC play. lose 2 or more, then they are going to have to do a TON of work in a very tough conference to make the NCAAT and keep this from being a wildly disappointing season.

There is enough talent on this team to make a big run. Unfortunately, right now the whole isn't greater than the individual pieces. It's Wade's job to get them playing well as a team. If that takes checking some big egos, then so be it.