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LSU Basketball Lacks Talent
Posted on 1/19/17 at 6:16 am
Posted on 1/19/17 at 6:16 am
Coming into the season and after the first few games I thought we were a pretty talented team. I was fooled early on. This team lacks talented basketball players. After watching the 1-5 SEC schedule start, here is my opinion on players.
Blankeny - Supremely talented player.
Reath - Good player, but lacks physicality to compete with other bigs down low. (victor loss hurts him)
Sampson - Great athlete, but not a high IQ basketball player. Very very raw, needs good coaching.
Robinson III - Not quick enough to play in the SEC.
Mays - Mays has the tools but is young, he would have done better playing behind a superior guard this year.
Patterson - Mediocre guard at best. Lacks decision making skills that a true PG should have.
Jenkins - Haven't seen enough of him to give my opinion.
Bridgewater - Has no business being on an SEC roster. 6'-4" centers don't work in division 1 basketball.
Epps - Same boat as Reath, good talent and a stretch big. But, he lacks the physicality to compete with other SEC bigs.
Sims - I like Sims, but he is also undersized for his position. He struggles to guard other 4s. He is not quick enough to guard a 2/3 and isn't big enough to guard a 4/5.
This team lacks overall basketball IQ. This is solely on the coaching staff. We just make dumb mistakes and it is happening far to often. We have a few great athletes, but athletes don't always translate to great basketball players.
Blankeny - Supremely talented player.
Reath - Good player, but lacks physicality to compete with other bigs down low. (victor loss hurts him)
Sampson - Great athlete, but not a high IQ basketball player. Very very raw, needs good coaching.
Robinson III - Not quick enough to play in the SEC.
Mays - Mays has the tools but is young, he would have done better playing behind a superior guard this year.
Patterson - Mediocre guard at best. Lacks decision making skills that a true PG should have.
Jenkins - Haven't seen enough of him to give my opinion.
Bridgewater - Has no business being on an SEC roster. 6'-4" centers don't work in division 1 basketball.
Epps - Same boat as Reath, good talent and a stretch big. But, he lacks the physicality to compete with other SEC bigs.
Sims - I like Sims, but he is also undersized for his position. He struggles to guard other 4s. He is not quick enough to guard a 2/3 and isn't big enough to guard a 4/5.
This team lacks overall basketball IQ. This is solely on the coaching staff. We just make dumb mistakes and it is happening far to often. We have a few great athletes, but athletes don't always translate to great basketball players.
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Posted on 1/19/17 at 6:33 am to GeauxTime9
CJJ has yet to put a team on the court that looks like they know what they are doing. That's not a knock on the players, Some of then I agree are talented and have a lot of potential. What has been lacking in every year JJ has coached LSU is "Understood Common Direction" At best with Martin, Mickey and Quarterman (In his breakout 2nd season) They looked like an organized street ball team. There was still no sense of organization to their play though just running and gunning with little thought of defense.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 6:37 am to Snipe
I think the only players that have a lot of upside to them are...Blankeny, Sampson, Mays, and Reath.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 6:41 am to GeauxTime9
Mays just needs to get stronger and mature some guy gets to the rim when ever he wants to just not strong enough to finish!
Posted on 1/19/17 at 6:48 am to GeauxTime9
Exactly and we are steadily allowing talent to leave Louisiana (great talent at that)
Posted on 1/19/17 at 6:54 am to lmt
If you took everyone from this team and they played for Syracuse, they'd be a top 25 team.
Don't tell me they arent talented. We've been more talented than most teams we play for the last few years. We are so under coached that we look less talented than we are.
Blakeny and Sampson have off the chart athleticism, and can shoot. Epps and Reath are athletic bigs that can shoot. All 4 of them have chances at the next level based purely off their potential.
There's no reason more can't be gotten from a 7'1" 300Lb guy.
Don't tell me they arent talented. We've been more talented than most teams we play for the last few years. We are so under coached that we look less talented than we are.
Blakeny and Sampson have off the chart athleticism, and can shoot. Epps and Reath are athletic bigs that can shoot. All 4 of them have chances at the next level based purely off their potential.
There's no reason more can't be gotten from a 7'1" 300Lb guy.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 6:59 am to TeddyPadillac
quote:
If you took everyone from this team and they played for Syracuse, they'd be a top 25 team.
Wrong. Very wrong.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 7:37 am to GeauxTime9
quote:
LSU Basketball Lacks Talent
Posted on 1/19/17 at 7:40 am to GeauxTime9
lsu basketball does not lack talent. Give trent johnson this team and we are pushing for a low seed in tourney. He just couldnt get this team. Literally more than half the players you put on there you eluded to talent but raw.
Do you not understand difference between talent and coaching.
Then you finish with this and completely contradict what you put as title. If you have watched lsu basketball in the past you would understand difference between lack of talent and lack of coaching. Literally the last coach we had was the Anti JJ
Do you not understand difference between talent and coaching.
quote:
This team lacks overall basketball IQ. This is solely on the coaching staff. We just make dumb mistakes and it is happening far to often. We have a few great athletes, but athletes don't always translate to great basketball players.
Then you finish with this and completely contradict what you put as title. If you have watched lsu basketball in the past you would understand difference between lack of talent and lack of coaching. Literally the last coach we had was the Anti JJ
Posted on 1/19/17 at 7:42 am to GeauxTime9
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think the only players that have a lot of upside to them are...Blankeny, Sampson, Mays, and Reath.
lsu has had plenty of years where having that many players with upside would be large improvement.
The problem with this fanbase is half of yall started watching last year
Posted on 1/19/17 at 7:49 am to GeauxTime9
quote:FIFY
LSU Basketball Lacks Coaching
We actually have some decent talent. A few teams we've lost to have had far less talent than us. The problem is, street ball doesn't work at this level.
CJJ has no clue how to run an offense or coach defense. Both of which can help make up for lesser talent.
I understand what you're saying, and I'm not saying we're the most talented team out there, but to say this team lacks talent is completely false. This team lacks coaching. Our offense is probably similar to what they'd run at one of the parish prisons.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 7:52 am to GeauxTime9
quote:So you say this team lacks talent, then proceed to name 4 players with very good talent.
think the only players that have a lot of upside to them are...Blankeny, Sampson, Mays, and Reath.
This post was edited on 1/19/17 at 7:53 am
Posted on 1/19/17 at 7:52 am to saint tiger225
quote:
We actually have some decent talent. A few teams we've lost to have had far less talent than us. The problem is, street ball doesn't work at this level.
CJJ has no clue how to run an offense or coach defense. Both of which can help make up for lesser talent.
I understand what you're saying, and I'm not saying we're the most talented team out there, but to say this team lacks talent is completely false. This team lacks coaching. Our offense is probably similar to what they'd run at one of the parish prisons.
all this. Exactly my point just said better
Posted on 1/19/17 at 7:54 am to LSU1SLU
Posted on 1/19/17 at 7:55 am to GeauxTime9
quote:
This team lacks overall basketball IQ.
This team lacks overall basketball talent.
FIFY since you lost your focus somewhere between the thread title and the OP.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 8:10 am to TNTigerman
It seems that they have stretches where they lack effort and hustle. Once they get behind it seems like they just know they cant win. That is coaching.
This post was edited on 1/19/17 at 8:11 am
Posted on 1/19/17 at 8:15 am to TeddyPadillac
quote:lol what kinda dope you smoking baw, we could bring Roy Williams and Phil Jackson to coach here and they wouldn't sniff the top 25. Outside of Blankly the rest is Southland/SWAC talent at best
If you took everyone from this team and they played for Syracuse, they'd be a top 25 team.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 8:18 am to GeauxTime9
I'll sum up your OP this way:
Reath is the only baseline/inside SEC starting caliber player, and he is a slightly above average SEC level player.
You can compete in the SEC with 4 guards/wing players, but they have to all be very good outside shooters and defenders which these guys are not.
This is on CJJ for not having more big guys who can play at a high level in the SEC and guards/wings who can shoot and defend consistently.
Reath is the only baseline/inside SEC starting caliber player, and he is a slightly above average SEC level player.
You can compete in the SEC with 4 guards/wing players, but they have to all be very good outside shooters and defenders which these guys are not.
This is on CJJ for not having more big guys who can play at a high level in the SEC and guards/wings who can shoot and defend consistently.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 8:23 am to NorthEndZone
All this team does is shoot threes. With some coaching this team could be competitive not top 10 but competitive.
Posted on 1/19/17 at 8:23 am to GeauxTime9
No size on this team and no help on the way either
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