re: Guys settle down on McMahon, this was a rebuild Wade left us is shambles

We were down by 19 at half. If McMahon is as bad a coach as everyone says we should have lost by 30 - 40 points. Yet we came back and were only down 9 with around 4 minutes left before the 4 fouls / technical and questionable jump ball killed the run. On the road aganst #19. Team played hard, ran multiple defenses and dominated offensive boards. But none of that is coaching? Let’s see what happens going forward with Cook at point. Definitely going to be a better team.

I was a Wade fan. He was a good coach but not great. He was a great recruiter. But incessant non stop bashing of this coach and this team is way old. He gets 3 years period. If he’s still struggling after 3 years then there’s an argument to replace him. The idiots need to understand that. He ain’t going anywhere especially with the commitments he has for next year.

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Wade didn’t leave us… Scott dismissed him

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For not just being a cheat, everyone cheats, but for being an idiot cheat in the process.

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Wade wouldn’t have any better record without a PG.

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Wade wasn't even the best xs and os coach, but he's proven to be a lot better than McMahon. This is blatantly false. Cook does nothing to help the fact that our perimeter defense is abysmal and doesn't help the fact that we suck at rebounding.

I think Cook is a very good player but I think even without him this team SHOULD have been a decently competitive SEC team. Not having a true PG wasn't our only problem, and a good enough coach would figure something out. Our ball handlers were not so bad as to not have any offense whatsoever. Even then, our offense isn't even that bad. As Alt26 has stated multiple times, we usually have a higher FG% than the other team, but still lose because we take less shots. That is because of giving up offensive rebounding and not defending three pointers. Cook doesn't help with either of those.

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Dean needs to start over Baker and Fountain over Reed.

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Average tRant user could tell you this but it takes a coach that gets paid 2 mil a year 5 OOC losses to figure this out.


Promise if Wade was the coach with this roster he'd have been starting them from day 1.

It’s a total rebuild but McBasement is also a poor coach from what I have seen. We lack talent but the turnovers are correctable as are his moronic player groupings. Why he continues to Jack with the substitutions in ways that make absolutely no sense is beyond me. Our defense is crap which is a want to issue. He isn’t getting everything out of the players he has recruited which is a big problem.

Lol outside of the waters years, Wade never had a true point guard either. That’s a crap excuse.

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We were down by 19 at half. If McMahon is as bad a coach as everyone says we should have lost by 30 - 40 points. Yet we came back and were only down 9 with around 4 minutes left before the 4 fouls / technical and questionable jump ball killed the run. On the road aganst #19. Team played hard, ran multiple defenses and dominated offensive boards. But none of that is coaching? Let’s see what happens going forward with Cook at point. Definitely going to be a better team

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If moral victories counted McMahon would be a #1 seed

LSU NEVER had the lead at any point in the game. They trailed by double-digits for 80% or so of the game. But for a couple of garbage time 3’s at the end this is a 14-17 point loss. The 15th loss (of 21) to a major conference opponent by 10+ points.

Yet, fans are somehow supposed to be encouraged because LSU only lost by 11 instead of 30? There could not be a better microcosm of the state of the program. CELEBRATING 11 point losses because it wasn’t as bad as usual. Maybe TJ Ribs should start giving away a free order of onion rings every time LSU loses by less than 10.

And the band played on…

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With NIL and the portal, a program like LSU should never have talent problems at all.

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Without the portal we wouldn't have had the exodus after Wade was fired. That works both ways and there simply isn't enough talent sitting around in April to lure to a team with zero players and an NOA.

People who claim otherwise are idiots.

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Cook does nothing to help the fact that our perimeter defense is abysmal and doesn't help the fact that we suck at rebounding.

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Cook will help with rebounding. At times Williams seemed allergic to rebounding, almost never dropping down to help or putting a body on someone. Cook doesn't have those issues, at least in the first game.

Also Cook will help cut down on turnovers. I was fearful of running into full court presses in the SEC, and while that is largely a team effort, Cook has experience and speed.