re: LSU Basketball lands Cincinnati F Transfer Tari Eason

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It’s baseless because you are able to compare their freshmen stats, & they look alike?

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You're making a definitive statement that Eason is good and Leblanc is not. Seeing as how Eason has NEVER played a single minute in a LSU uniform it is a bit difficult to draw a definitive conclusion as to how he will perform in an LSU uniform. Yet, you make a definitive statement that he is better than Leblanc. My response is based on what evidence outside of sheer speculation?

If you make the comparison between BOTH players at the same stage of their careers, one full season of basketball at another major college prior to transferring to LSU the numbers look largely the same. Considering we have never seen Eason play at LSU it is a bit disingenuous suggest he is going to perform the same at LSU as he did at Cincy.

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So that automatically means Eason develops like Leblanc has? A soon to be 22yr old that has not improved ? Is that the game you’re playing?

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Who knows? Eason has never played at LSU. And that's the point. He may be much better than Leblanc right now. He may develop into a great player at LSU. He may be awful at LSU. But to say definitively Eason is "better" because he did this at Cincy compared to what Leblanc did or didn't do at LSU is a bad comparison. I know immediate and largely baseless overreaction is par for the course, but you kind of have to see BOTH play for LSU before we can come to any more definitive conclusions regarding who is better.

Because simply from a production standpoint freshman Tari Eason looks a lot like freshman Josh Leblanc.

I agree with lester.

Leblanc is like a baby giraffe

He has no basketball iq.
Still has so much to learn.

To me he will never be a starter.

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Not saying he won't develop though and/or be better with better coaching.

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Very likely he will not get better coaching here

His defense and length is ELITE

love this signing

There is NO WAY IN HELL I would take the time to research this, but if it was done, I bet Will Wade's first 4 years at a power 5 school is in the top 5% all-time. I'm talking about how successful the coach was in their first 4 years at a power 5.

Just a few off the top of my head that he was better than: Coach K, Dale Brown, Tony Bennett, Scott Drew. So yeah, I think it's very likely he will get coached well under Wade.

I get what you are saying but do you love leblanc's basketball iq?

He seemed to be out of position on defense a bunch.

He almost needs his mind to catch up to his body. Maybe it will but I'm not betting my money on it happening.

Guess we will see.

I think your first two comments are connected. Most of the fouls he picked up were from him using his hands to guard perimeter players mostly guards which lowered his playing time. As far as offensively he just wasn’t a part of the plan, neither was anyone outside of the big 4. He didn’t accidentally score over 9ppg at Georgetown but in his role this season we did zero to afford him even chances on the offensive glass or on pick and roll situations. I think we saw instances where he excelled but those were very limited. I think it was more of a square peg round hole instance than basketball IQ.

How good is Wheeler from Georgia?

Any chance at getting him?

Don’t think they need him personally.

Watching the SMU game really made me excited about Eason. He showed great defense, blocking shots from taller guys that were posting him up. He showed great court awareness and the ability to finish. He even hit a 3.

Jordan Mickey is a pretty apt comparison.