re: Grade CMM year 1

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Someone please have an actual basketball discussion with me as to why any of this bs y'all are spitting makes sense. Please.

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Did you watch LSU's offense this season? Actually watch them try to execute it? It was horrible. The entire offense was ball-screen heavy. Yet many times the the PG (regardless of who it was) would waste 10-15 seconds of the shot clock at the top of the arc while the four players spread along the baseline looked at one another trying to figure out who was supposed to set a screen? They wouldn't even initiate the god damn offense until there was 10-15 seconds on the shot clock! The screens were often half-hearted because everyone was unsure where to go. The off the ball movement was minimal. The ball movement was many times non existent

And that is just focusing on the offense which was the BETTER end of the floor for LSU. The defense was somehow WORSE.

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f you're going to say "wElL lOok aT MiSSouRi!!!"

Missouri: 31.5% of minutes played and 32.9% of scoring return from 2021-22 roster

LSU: 15.8% of minutes played and 7.3% of scoring return from 2021-22 roster

Not a similar roster turnover...

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Missouri brought in 10 new players and will be going to the NCAA Tournament.

LSU brought in 10 new players and finished dead last in the SEC with one of the worst teams among all of the major conference programs.

Was Kobe Brown (Missouri's only proven returning player) individually better than anything LSU brought back, yes. No question. But you can easily make the argument KJ Williams, the SEC's second leading scorer and 7th leading rebounder this season, matched Brown's production, if not exceeded it. So those two cancel each other out. That basically puts the comparison between the other players on each team. Simply put, Dennis Gates was able to get FAR more production out of his overhauled roster than McMahon was.

Of course, the most frustrating part is NO ONE expected LSU to have the type of season Missouri had and NO ONE would have been angry if they didn't. But LSU didn't even come close matching half of Missouri's SEC win total (11)

Relative to preseason expectations NO ONE in the league performed worse than LSU. The only team that was somewhat close was Ole Miss...and they fired their HC during the season.

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Coaches fault, yep

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So nothing is his fault?

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Not being able to get the best out of Adam Miller

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Head Coaches job

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Stubbornness in changing up the lineup

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Head Coaches Job

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In game coaching especially when holding on to a lead

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The whole point in being a Head Coach

You mark those as negatives but they are three of the most important aspects in being a great HC

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Anyone who expects bench players with little minutes to blossom into really good players in one season are foolish.

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Ah didnt know

Hill, KJ, Trae, Coleman, and Hayes were all bench scrubs at their previous stops and obviously long term projects.

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Missouri returned 80% of the 40 minutes from last year.

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They returned Kobe Brown (13 ppg, 8 rpg) and his brother Kaleb (1 ppg and 1 rpg). That’s 80% of their production?