re: For real basketball fans, and people who know basketball Xs and Os...

We run the weave sometimes

So does Arkansas

Thanks for your input.

For the life of me, I will never understand how we have a top 10 offense (consistently) and yet the means are questioned.

The answer: we have 4 players who would likely start on 98% of NCAA teams. This creates 1v1 opportunities. We do run picks for ball handlers all the time. See “horn” and “baseline” plays. I know many of you turn off your volume but you could literally hear them yelled by Wade all year on TV.

LSU runs a different offense than most teams because they have different (better) offensive personnel than most teams. Think about what the NBA game looks like with their skilled offensive players.

It's interesting that you start off with coaching criticisms but then it turns out you fear Michigan because their big guy is good. As you seem to see in the end, basketball has always been more about talent level than in game coaching. You can't coach height and talent into a player if they don't already have it.

The other thing that's strange is you don't see all the coaching that has gone into this team. Watford, Smart and Dayes have improved every year. They now know how to play together off each other. The whole team is playing great defense and rebounding because of coaching. When something goes wrong lately, it is almost always because a player made a mistake or a bad decision, not because the coaching scheme is so awful.

The only thing you described that we don’t do is the back door cutting. Teams who can’t beat people off the dribble use this a lot more than teams like us who can. We run plenty of ball screens and off ball action and instead of back cuts we use pick and roll or pick and pop. Our offense is top 10 in efficiency and production, it’s the best offense since Wade’s been here so I’m not sure what the complaint is? Our defense was the issue early on but since we’ve moved away from the zone and into man we’ve played at a much higher level overall. We’re peaking at the right time.

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It’s the same people that complain about Wade all year. The usual suspects.

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To be fair, TN84 has been supportive of LSU basketball and Wade throughout the years. At least that's how I remember it.

Tomorrow you will the contrast between 1-1 iso vs movement team ball. They play inside out and swing the ball on every possession. We will continue to isolation Watford and Thomas and let them do their thing.

Fundamentals are a crutch for the talentless