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re: Texas Tech downs Puke
Posted on 12/20/25 at 10:55 pm to Adajax
Posted on 12/20/25 at 10:55 pm to Adajax
They shot 46.7% vs us and scored 82 points. People are acting like they had a historic shooting night to beat us when in fact they could’ve shot in the 30s and won the game because what really happened was our offensive inadequacies were exposed.
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Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:01 pm to Madking
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People have said and you’ve hinted at in this very thread that the blowout vs Tech was mostly due to a lucky shooting night. He’s saying them beating Duke proves it wasn’t, that they’re multiple levels better than us.
It can simultaneously be true that Texas Tech is a better team than LSU AND that they played out of their heads against LSU while LSU had an off night. That doesn’t mean LSU could have or should have won the game, only that they aren’t 24 points worse than Texas Tech.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 11:02 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:01 pm to GreenieTiger
I didn’t see the post game, but I’m guessing your summation of his comments are taking a little artistic liberty. Either way, Texas tech is a good team. They would beat us under most circumstances. It looked uglier because we played poorly. Texas tech beating duke makes us look no better or worse. But I agree, the schedule we have played has done us no favors.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:03 pm to Madking
Also, when you play good teams who play good defense (Tech's defense is rated 63), you might have a worse night shooting than when you play Alcorn State (Defense ranked 331).
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:06 pm to MikeTheTiger71
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It can simultaneously be true that Texas Tech is a better team than LSU AND that they played out of their heads against LSU while LSU had an off night
Tech shooting their average for the year is playing out of their heads?
You’re smart
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 11:07 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:07 pm to wallowinit
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This actually happened at the start and they got off to a really big lead if I recall correctly
Yeah, they started hot, but they cooled off at the end of the half. We never seized opportunities to make runs. McKinnon was pretty bad all around. If he’s not scoring, you can’t have him on the floor sucking at defense too.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:07 pm to MikeTheTiger71
But they didn’t, they just beat Duke which proves that and their shooting% vs us was their 7th best this season in 12 games. The more import issue is how we played which continues to be overlooked.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:07 pm to kc8876
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Tech shooting their average for the year is playing out of their heads? You’re smart
It is possible to play great on the defensive side of the ball.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:09 pm to GreenieTiger
We shot poorly vs Tech because our shot selection was awful, DJ played bad and Tech took away our only real threat. It exposed that we have a limited pathway to win games. Now give credit to coach Mac he’s made some adjustments since that game which may give us a bit more flexibility.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:12 pm to Madking
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But they didn’t, they just beat Duke which proves that and their shooting% vs us was their 7th best this season in 12 games. The more import issue is how we played which continues to be overlooked.
The 58 points they allowed was their 2nd best this season. It’s interesting to see people argue that Texas Tech is the best defensive team LSU has faced, but then assign all the blame for the low scoring output to LSU. Maybe they played their best game of the season defensively while LSU had their worst offensively.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:16 pm to MikeTheTiger71
Sure, if you didn’t watch the game you could go with that theory.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:19 pm to Madking
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Sure, if you didn’t watch the game you could go with that theory.
So it is your contention that LSU really is worse offensively than Lindenwood, Sam Houston, Milwaukee, and N Colorado?
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:20 pm to MikeTheTiger71
No
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:20 pm to Madking
I agree with you that with the SEC being down this year we are looking at 8-9 conference bids. How many conference wins do you think it takes to be in the mix for the final SEC bid?
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:23 pm to GreenieTiger
I think the SEC will get 10, not sure about the win total for us to get in because if it’s the 10th spot we’re after you’re likely going to have multiple teams who have better resumes that could get in over us. Essentially we might need to finish 8th or 9th to be the 10th team.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:26 pm to Madking
Makes sense. It sucks because SMU will definitely not be a Quad 1 win at the end of the season after they play their ACC schedule.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:28 pm to Madking
Then what are we arguing here? LSU clearly played poorly offensively in that game and Texas Tech being a good defensive team contributed to that. More than likely they played one of their best, if not their best, game defensively given the fact that only UNO scored fewer points against them. LSU’s 58 output was not representative for either team. LSU is not 24 points worse than Texas Tech.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:33 pm to GreenieTiger
Yea, that was a good bounce back performance but SMU did not play well at all and I’m not sure they’re any good. We need the SEC performance from 2 years ago minus the letdown games to get in. I think we’re right in that 9th to 13th team range but it’s hard to know based off of the competition we’ve faced.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:37 pm to MikeTheTiger71
Or, like I said, we don’t have alot of different ways to win games and Tech exposed that. They pushed DJ outside the pocket and their bigs handled Nwoko relatively easily. We had nothing else to go to once that happened.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 11:40 pm
Posted on 12/20/25 at 11:41 pm to Madking
quote:How dare you say something intelligent about the actual game.
Or, like I said, we don’t have alot of different ways to win games and Tech exposed that. They pushed DJ outside the pocket and their bigs handled Nwoko relatively easy.
Seems like 99% of the basketball comments are limited to Bring Back WW of F McMahon (with some disparaging spin on his name).
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