LSU Basketball Perspective

There has been two big talking points on this board for the past couple of weeks, the lack of defense and the crowd.

I see people complaining about Will Wade saying he doesnt have anyone else to play, but its true. The lack of size is killing us. You ever wonder why teams shoot so well against us, its the lack of size. If you pay attention, we go under every screen. Its a decision that Will Wade has to make because we have no true big men to protect the paint, if our defender gets beat. Next, when our defenders do get beat literally everyone on the team crashes. We don't need two people contesting every shot, thats why we see so many wide open shots. This is the lack of discipline that Will Wade has been mentioning in his press confrences, so he can get some blame because of that. But again it comes due to lack of size.

Also, we have terrrible on ball defenders. Javonte has the slwoest feet I might have ever seen in a Point Guard. Watford as many has indicated is lazy off ball, but we have him gaurding opposing shooting gaurds, you cant expect hiuim to when those matchups. Emmitt Williams and Days put in effort, but against these good teams like Kentcuky, they are over matched with length on both ends.
Skylar, Manning, and occasionally Marlon Taylor are the only players that are capable of consistently staying in front of their man. These breakdowns lead to the probelms with lack of size and kickouts I was hinting at before.

The only way to fix these problems are with recruiting players to fit Will Wades style of play. This upcoming class you are seeing guys with length and athleticsim capable of gaurding mutliple positions (Josh Leblanc, Wilkinson, O'neal hopefully Eric Gaines) and potentially a true 6'10 Big Man in Frank Anselem.

Before the season we knew this team was limited, the hot start to conference play got us excited, but in the end you have to remember this is a limited team. If you would have asked two months ago 90% of people would love being 9-4 in conference play.

The next thing is saying the PMAC is dead and yes it sucks. But STFU and dont complain if you dont go to the games. Every game you see on TV where it seems like other schools fans seem so into it they are on the sidelines where you can actually see and make a difference. Last night the student section was on there feet making noise the whole game, they just have the worst seats in the house. Evenb for the Missouri game the students seemed more into it. Put them in the seats of all 40-60 year olds who will say back in my day the pmac was rocking, and I think you will get a more desirable environment. Give todays tstudents the same chance to get it rocking like y'all had.

Everyone compares the student section to football games. At football games the Band does a great Job of getting the crowd involved with chants or whatnot. At basketball games all they do is play fast paced songs. I dont know if this some kind of SEC rule or the Band directors decision, but it be nice if they would play some songs that get the crowd involved going into timeouts.


Short Version: This is a very limited team due to lack of size. and due to a number of factors LSU students/fans do not get a chance to be involved like other fanbases