Lsu has a very bad game and everyone is ready to jump off a bridge?

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Bama was hot last night. No One was going to beat them. Their water boy could probably hit 3s from mid court last night. Im not sure if any of their 3s even touched the rim.

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like another poster said, if Bama shoots their regular 3-point % (35%), then they'd have only made 15 3-pt shots last night. That's 8 fewer, which is 24 points. Bama was up 39 with two minutes left, before we cut the margin late - so we'd still lose handily.

And that's not factoring in that Bama would've gotten a few second chance points off of those misses.

So yes, Bama was on fire, but that doesn't erase the fact that our defense was awful, and in fact a large part of Bama's success was precisely because our defense WAS so awful.

It was a bad night for LSU MBB. But we are 5-2 in the SEC and all alone in second place. 11 more SEC games to go.

You're on tRant. what were you expecting?

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ike another poster said, if Bama shoots their regular 3-point % (35%), then they'd have only made 15 3-pt shots last night. That's 8 fewer, which is 24 points. Bama was up 39 with two minutes left, before we cut the margin late - so we'd still lose handily.

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That's true to an extent. If they don't go 14 of 19 from 3 in the first half and get up huge, we don't panic and try to force up a bunch of threes to counter it and the game likely won't get out of hand. All the shite started rolling downhill and it got out of hand. I am as positive as I can be if those threes don't all go in early, the game doesn't get out of hand like that. LSU's performance was as terrible as Bama's was good, but the utter panic and defeatism is extreme (though in no way surprising). Tennessee got runout of Florida's gym by 30 with Florida missing THREE starters. You people need to calm down some. If they don't bounce back against Kentucky Saturday, then its time to really worry.

Same shite happened to auburn. They lived by the 3 and we boat raced them early in the year. Then they got hot and went to the final four (right?) based pretty much only on the 3

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You all realize this is basketball. Bad nights happen.

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Classic!

You forgot the "That's Basketball. We'll be Fine. Go support another team."

Derek, you need to really chill man. Your boss isn’t going to get fired despite his incompetence. You don’t have to keep trying to bring down the best coach on campus to prop up your guy.

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Same shite happened to auburn. They lived by the 3 and we boat raced them early in the year.

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LSU won by 5, at home. Certainly not a "boat race"

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Then they got hot and went to the final four (right?) based pretty much only on the 3

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Yes and no. Kentucky, not LSU, blasted them late in the year. After that they got hot and won 12 straight before falling to UVA in literally the final second of the game in the Final Four.

But while Auburn was a great 3 point shooting team, they were also a decent defensive team (top 40 in defensive efficiency). The offense was the headliner, but they weren't atrocious on defense. LSU is.

Even BEFORE the game last night LSU was 5th in the nation offensively and 100+ defensively. So while last night was their worst defensive effort of the season...it wasn't their ONLY bad defensive effort. In fact, games where LSU defends well under Wade are the exception...not the rule.

In the KenPom era (since 2002) no team has won the national championship and finished with a defensive efficiency rating BELOW 20th in the country. The adage that defense wins championships is statistically proven. Now a tremendous offense (which LSU has) can make up for defensive deficiencies...but only so much. The name of the game is "balance" (between offense and defense) And no team currently in the Kenpom top 50 is more unbalanced than LSU...as was the case last year.

The bottom line is that for as good a job as Wade has done in putting together a group who is outstanding on offense he has done an equally terrible job on the defensive end. That's not just my opinion. There is statistical evidence clearly showing just that. I'm not, nor have I ever called for Wade to be fired. But the lengths some fans will go to defend him despite a CLEAR and GLARING deficiency are strange.