LSU Basketball defense #1 in ppg

Will Wade. American Gangster.

Will Wade. Louisiana Defender.

Will Wade. LSU Legend.

Will Wade. Best Basketball Coach in school history.

I love watching this team. Finally have the size needed to make a serious run in the tourney.

LSU hasn’t played a good team yet. Let’s see how we do against a ranked opponent 1st.

The test will be when we play a team that knocks down some open 3s against us. Thats the one weakness i see of our defense.

1 LSU 53.7
2 Virginia 55.8
3 Baylor 56.4
3 Texas 56.4
5 Houston 56.4

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LSU hasn’t played a good team yet. Let’s see how we do against a ranked opponent 1st.

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LSU has a better SOR than all of the other teams listed, by a large margin actually.

LSU has a tougher SOS than Baylor, who also has not played a ranked open yet (today they do).

UVA, Texas and Houston all lost to the only ranked opponents they played.

And each of those teams gave up more pts when they played good teams. The duke’s and Kansas of the world play harder schedules thus gives up more points. It’s the same way many of you talked about uga defense in football. It’s the result of poor offenses they played. Let’s see how that defense holds up in sec play Bc will Wade only plays weak ooc teams.

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Let’s see how that defense holds up in sec play Bc will Wade only plays weak ooc teams.

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Most teams play lesser teams in OOC play, with occasional big matchups when you're good. Credit to Alabama for getting Gonzaga and Houston, btw.

I wouldn't say Penn State, Wake Forest and Georgia Tech are weak, they're solid middle of the road P5 teams. And Ohio's not a bad mid-major.

This team definitely has holes on offense, which could keep them down. If we had 1 pure 3 pt shooter, a guy who is money on open looks, I think we could be a Final Four team.

What stood out to me last night is how many shot clock violations we caused. And had a couple more defensive possessions that would have been but we made silly fouls with like 2 or 3 seconds left. Weirdly, those turnovers are bad for our offense, but with that much extended intensity it obviously forces bad shots with the clock running down so we can get out and run in transition.

Seems a few things have come together perfectly for this:

1) buy-in
2) athleticism/length
3) rotation of 7-8 guys that keeps everybody fresh and without any drop-off
4) maintained focus and intensity

Just really impressive job by Wade and the players. Will be interesting to see how we play in an actual road game, though. Defense travels and will keep us in almost every game, but will it be enough to win at Auburn, for example, if we shoot like we did last night.

What’s crazy is Adam Miller is a lockdown defender and sniper from outside