re: How would LSU's resume at 21-11, 10-6 compare to the 2003 team's resume?

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As for the constant reference to teh Purdue game there is always some theme that the coaching staff should have done something different. Score tied 33-33 at half, team has shot incredibly for a month and is locked in a battle with a tough team similar to BAMA and Florida , both of whom were beaten in grind it out fashion. What strategy should have changed at the half given those scenarios?

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Are you going to tell us the answer?

17 three pointers at Tennessee and the following game against auburn we hit 13. Dupree hit 4 in the Tennessee game and also tried some sick dunk and blew it lol.

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Are you going to tell us the answer?

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I asked the question because every time someone mentions the 2003 season some jerk can’t wait to bring up the Purdue “debacle.” Instead of allowing one poor half in the NCAA tourney to define the season why not celebrate a return to the tournament after rebuilding under draconian NCAA sanctions and the beginning of four straight seasons in the upper echelons of the SEC?

So, if you are the coach given the success and phenomenal shooting over the past month what changes should have been made at half time of a tie game. When the ball is not going in the basket out of the same offense that you hit 16 three pointers in a game two weeks earlier there is not much that can be done. The same thing happened to North Carolina a few seasons ago when they inexplicably hit about 2 of their final 25 shots and lost the lead and the game to Georgetown in the tournament.

So again, what should have been changed at halftime of a tie game that would have resulted in a better second half?

brady ball, much like trent ball, in the halfcourt, was worse than watching paint dry. it was like watching paint peel after it dries. we weren't great defensively in that half either. the uab game was worse especially when you consider we were familiar with their style.

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brady ball, much like trent ball, in the halfcourt, was worse than watching paint dry. it was like watching paint peel after it dries. we weren't great defensively in that half either.

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That may have been true at times but not for the prior month before the Purdue game. So what strategy should have been employed different from what had been so successful down the stretch.

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the uab game was worse especially when you consider we were familiar with their style

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The UAB loss was the perfect storm. UAB had completed their season a week earlier and were rested. LSU had played three games in the SEC tourney including an emotional OT loss in the final seconds to Kentucky. LSU returned from Atlanta on Sunday after the SEC tourney then headed out to Idaho on Tuesday and had to play Thursday.

The game was played in a high altitude location. UAB regularly played about 13 players in a fast paced pressing defense, LSU used about 8 regularly. Had the game been played in the South at a lower altitude or maybe even one day later LSU likely wins. They easily beat almost the same UAB team the year before in the Sugar Bowl classic.

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what about 04-5, we had like a 7 or 8 game win streak before losing a heartbreaker to UK in the SECT, then forgot to show up against UAB. I really hate those 8/9 seed games

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We were a 6 seed in 05.

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Lloreda was a beast.

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Brady’s shelf life at LSU had expired and it was in the best interest of all for parting ways. However, he has gotten much more criticism for things that did not go right and little credit for the accomplishments during his tenure.

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i think most of us agree with this

Apparently all you need to do to make Antonio Hudson turn into Michael Jordan is put him in Atlanta.