re: How tf do you blame this on coaching?

To me, after coming out hot, A&M made some defensive adjustments and we just looked very easy to guard the rest of the game. We did not adjust back.

I thought we played well offensively the first 10 minutes or so, but after that we probably shot 30% the rest of the game if that, with way too many careless turnovers. Just seemed to lack a sense of purpose offensively. I think coaching has at least something to do with that. Sure you can have the players share some of that if you'd like but IMHO can absolved the staff.

And the 3 or 4 easy transition goals they got because we simply did not hustle back.....inexcusable.

Considering our defense gave up lay up after lay up and our half court offense is the equivalent of what you'd see at any park in the US.....

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Is there ever going to be a loss where the coaches are to bkame? Hell, why did we fire TJ or JB, blame the players for not hitting shots

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For some no, and I get that. Loyalty for some is important and they will rationalize that loyalty by sticking up for the coach and saying the critics know nothing about basketball and are showing their ignorance.

Of course that goes both ways. The critics don't give much slack and are waiting to pounce, and definitely can be unreasonable at times.

I gotta say though, we did not look like a well-coached team last night. Whether you want to call it CJJ's fault or not I find it hard to entertain a rational argument otherwise. Blame it on Simmons being sick or foul trouble or fatigue whatever, selfish players, whatever....we still looked disorganized and void of a sense of purpose last night.

We've looked better coached at times this year and hopefully will in later games but to me last night....sorry.

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he big complaint I had about JJ down the stretch was why didn't he pull Quarterman when he was sulking around and yelling at his teammates

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he is what happened to what offense we had going on last night. the ball was moving around and we were getting good shots. timmy comes in, makes a couple shots and next thing you know he is bron bron.... hogging the ball, running around like a dumbass and doing his own thing. JJ takes out hornsby and patterson and left that idiot in damn near the entire game. Both of those guys make their first 3s and don't play damn near the rest of the game.... i turned it off b/c JJ refused to put back the starters in the game all at one time and get the game under control.... nope lets let timmy little son of a bitch run rampant on the court acting like a baby.

oh and victor having 3 fouls doesn't help.

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he is what happened to what offense we had going on last night. the ball was moving around and we were getting good shots. timmy comes in, makes a couple shots and next thing you know he is bron bron.... hogging the ball, running around like a dumbass and doing his own thing. JJ takes out hornsby and patterson and left that idiot in damn near the entire game. Both of those guys make their first 3s and don't play damn near the rest of the game.... i turned it off b/c JJ refused to put back the starters in the game all at one time and get the game under control.... nope lets let timmy little son of a bitch run rampant on the court acting like a baby.

oh and victor having 3 fouls doesn't help.

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Bad substitution is only one of the many bad traits of this team. This team is not coached up in practice. It's like they just got off the "and one" bus.

Hopefully JJ is fired this year.

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Either way victor is the straw that stirs the drink and when he got his fourth 2-3 min into the second half we were done. Our offense and defense goes to shite without him

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Victor is the key to the team. He's in and LSU looks pretty good. He's out and JJ can't coach.

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would like to know how many of u that bitch,moan and complain about the basketball team actually played basketball from the time u was in junior high all the way through high school? Playing a top 10 team on the road in a hostile environment you have games like this especially with a good senior lead team

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Yes TAMU is good. But LSU loses to less talented teams at home on the regular. If this was a one off, no one would be bitching, this has been the problem every year under Jones.

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This team, especially Q, help way too much on defense

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This is almost worthy of a sig quote. It's the equivalent of saying that Barack Obama reaches out to Benjamin Netanyahu too much.

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First off can I ask how much basketball experience you

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You seem to want to suck your own dick on your basketball experience, so why don't you share.

And since you want to go down this incredibly logical road (/s), compare it to CJJs when you're done.

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The "high low" is not an offensive identity....it's a very poor way of attacking a zone or man defense. And we do it very ineffectively. 

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So it's a way to attack a zone or man defense. Brilliant. TIL that offensive systems, like say the triangle, aren't offensive identities, just a way to attack that thing called defenses.

We're a running team that uses a Hi-Lo in the half court. I would love to hear what you consider to be an "offensive identity"

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No...we do not see the ball and help on defense....and when we do we rotate very poorly after that. 

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Our guards help in the post far too often. This makes them run at defenders which leads to use of hands and being out of position. When the ball rotates around, it gets us completely out of position

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No....reaching in is not a result of helping out too much....that's ridiculous. Reaching in is a lazy way to play defense resulting from not moving one's feet. And it bails out the offense way to much. 

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Reaching in happens from being out of position. In Qs case, it is usually due to his help defense and watching the ball instead of his man

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I'll agree simmons is slightly above average attacking the offensive glass. 

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Slightly above average?

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Yes I've seen Simmons shoot....he's a 75% free throw shooter....I'm sorry but taking a 12 footer is at worst a 50% make/miss shot....

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Wow, just wow.

And even if it was 50/50 for him (it isn't), the positive outcome % is a lot higher with him attacking. His midrange game is not good. He's airballing jumpers and has yet to show that ability. Certainly hasn't shown the ability to hit it at a 50% rate at all.

He'll develop it. AD has absolutely mastered the mid range jumper. Yet, when he entered the NBA, despite shooting 75% from the FT line, he couldn't hit a mid range jump shot at all making less than 35%

Lebron James hit about 35% last year from the 5-15 foot range (and yes, ik its the NBA)

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That's 3 minutes of typing....we could do this all day.

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Still nothing but generic statements that get repeated by parrots. Show your amazing basketball IQ that you believe you have