Guards combine zero assists

Yep, no team concepts offensively. Thomas and watford and smart ball hog. They have really stunted the development of cook and gaines. At this point id rather try to get those guys involved and take our lumps. Was nice to see them playing at the end

I've seen a lot of players take selfish wild shots at the major college level.

What I'm having trouble recalling is a coach not sitting them on the bench.

And it just snowballs to where Watford and Smart watch what Thomas can get away with jacking up and take their turns.

During the run Alabama made to pull away after half, all three of those guys combined for about 8 or 10 of the most selfish wild shots I've seen in an actual game in a long time.

Even worse, it came when Alabama had Jones out with 4 fouls and were playing a lineup where 3 of the 5 players were from #7-11 on their normal depth chart.

To be clear... I mean this by the scientific definition.

You have to make shots to get assists. We missed so many easy shots last night. Smart had an off night and missed 3 or 4 almost layups. Leblanc missed 3 or 4 point blank shots. Watford missed a ton of shots that he usually makes over 50% of.
I believe this team is pressing and when things don't go their way offensively, we don't have the defense to help us out.

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Thomas is literally a black hole. If he catches the ball the shot is going up.

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Just realized why he is 24. He has the Kobe mentality haha

*Mamba Mentality
RIP to Kobe one of the best to ever do it

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I believe this team is pressing and when things don't go their way offensively, we don't have the defense to help us out.

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The sad thing is that I thought they came out and looked more focused on defense to start...except Watford. Certainly he is not fully to blame for last night's loss (or even the Tech loss), but while 4 of his teammates were playing with energy on the defensive end, he was just standing around ball watching...or jogging back on defense...even in transition. Other than when he would get the ball at the elbow and decide come hell or high water he was taking it to the rim, he was completely checked out.

He could be (and has been) a great rebounder, but he played with zero energy in that aspect last night. He could be (and has a times) a good assist guy from the post. But he flat out doesn't want to be because he knows if he passes it out he not going to get a shot.

And for the first time in his career Wade seems submissive to the players. Almost as if he is unwilling to chastise them because he owes them a debt of gratitude for coming back (Smart, Watford) or coming at all (Thomas). This season is reminding me so much like the 2015-2016 season with Simmons. A highly regarded recruiting class coupled with some key veterans that on paper should be really good. But in action is just a compilation of many (not all) guys with their own self interest coupled with a HC who is unwilling to enforce some discipline (on the court) out of fear of losing the guys who "graced him" with their presence for one more year.

Over the course of 3 years LSU has had some up and down results. They've rarely played defense with any consistency...if at all. But they NEVER looked like they didn't give a shite or at least show great fight...even in games they were down big and eventually lost. In years two and three LSU was not an easy out. Even times when they went down big they almost always had a flurry in them to make it a game late. This season if you can hit this team with a big run that's it. They mail it in

Clown show.

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You have to make PASSES to get assists

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