Still can’t understand why Wade ran cook off

Bc he isn’t and never was good enough to play on a team competing for an SEC title…

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Bc he isn’t and never was good enough to play on a team competing for an SEC title

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I disagree. He looks really solid so far.

He’s a mediocre SEC player a role player on a good team. Wouldn’t start on any ranked team in America all due respect

He never played him. Another way of running a player off

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Bc he isn’t and never was good enough to play on a team competing for an SEC title

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Look at his numbers when he played versus Gaines. He even averaged more points than Gaines even though he barely played. And I liked Gaines. Gaines was great on D, but was a major liability most of the time on offense.

Wade liked to play a switching defense ....cook didn't fit this scheme with his size

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Look at his numbers when he played versus Gaines. He even averaged more points than Gaines even though he barely played. And I liked Gaines. Gaines was great on D, but was a major liability most of the time on offense

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You could also look at the other players on the team when those two were freshman. They had Cam Thomas, Javonte Smart, Trendon Watford, and a top 10 offense. They needed defense so Gaines played over Cook. It’s that simple. Gaines fit the needed role for that specific team more than Cook. Doesn’t mean Wade thought Cook sucked or that he wanted to get rid of him.

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You could also look at the other players on the team when those two were freshman. They had Cam Thomas, Javonte Smart, Trendon Watford, and a top 10 offense. They needed defense so Gaines played over Cook. It’s that simple. Gaines fit the needed role for that specific team more than Cook. Doesn’t mean Wade thought Cook sucked or that he wanted to get rid of him.

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That's true and he talked about how excited he was about Cook, but Cook did seem to just get way too little playing time because he looked pretty good on D too.

And both of them are better than anything McBland has put on the floor in his illustrious career at LSU. They were both young subs on a conference winning program. Now we are arguing who was the best 10th or 11th best player on Wade’s squad. Cook is the best on this shell of a team. Oh how I miss MBB at LSU

Revisionist history at its finest.

Cook’s final 2 out of the portal was Kansas and us. Dude could’ve gone A LOT of places and wanted to come back