re: Texas Tech downs Puke

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Texas Tech downs Puke

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

Get it? It’s like DUKE, but with a ‘P’ so it says ‘PUKE’







Good one bro

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LSU is in a tough situation when it comes to MBB scheduling. They aren't good enough on paper for the elite Power 4 types to schedule in non-conference play. Duke losing to LSU in a home & home is a lot worse than Michigan St. They also don't have the fanbase to draw massive ticket sales to the marquee events in MSG, Maui, etc. Yes...I'm aware they've been before but more often are playing in Destin, Charleston, Greenbrier, etc. over thanksgiving.

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This is fair to some degree. The last 3 years of suck have really hurt the LSU brand and marquee made for tv games/events aren't looking for LSU. But that also means you have to do a couple of things:

1. Be willing to go play a stand alone road game at a big time opponent. Oklahoma went to Gonzaga. Ole Miss went to St. John's.

2. But more detail into scheduling the rent-a-win opponents. Try to find some solid mid-majors and, for Godssake, limit the SWAC/MEAC opponents to 1 per year.

Regardless, LSU (assuming they win the next two) has done enough to put themselves in a spot where they enter SEC play with a reasonable margin for error relative to a tournament resume. To my recollection, this is the highest they've ranked in the KenPom ratings entering SEC play under McMahon.

The blowout loss to TTU was disheartening and showed LSU and McMahon is probably not capable of competing with upper echelon power conf. teams. If that is McMahon's ceiling, the that is something that should be discussed at the end of the season. However, the did bounce bag with a strong win over an SMU team that is likely comparable to the middle of the SEC pack this year.

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They shot 46.7%, why are you people acting like they broke some record for FG% against us?

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God, here we go.

48% from 3 is their highest so far this year. Especially for a team that averages 28 attempts per game. Also worth noting, they rank 48th in 3pt%....lots of outliers here.

For context, they shot 32% from 3 in the win vs Duke.

Point is, more than likely they don't shoot 48% again, and we don't shoot 17%.

Not really that difficult to grasp.

And they shot almost 10% better overall but that falls outside of your excuse so you just ignore it. More importantly they made only 2 more 3s than their average vs us but yea those 6 points were the difference in the game.

We’ve shot better than that, over 50% from 3 and lost under McMahon. This is just another excuse you guys cling to but don’t even understand.

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More importantly they made only 2 more 3s than their average but yea those 6 points were the difference in the game lol.

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And we made 3 less than our average. Bringing it to a 9 point game.

LSU also averages 19.5 FT's made per game, we made 12.

If the trend continues with LSU and this roster, then I'll be concerned. But for now it seems like this was an outlier of a game where TTU came out hot and LSU had to play catchup.

I can’t keep up with sponsorship acronyms

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I should have written it out. My bad. It was the game held December 13 in New Orleans vs SMU.

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You should have just said tBlender. He would have gotten it.

37.2% which would’ve been a 2/3 shot difference and wouldn’t have made a difference. Nwoko has been in foul trouble in 9 of 11 games so using that as an excuse is also false. Bottom line, and we’re seeing it again tonight, is we’re not any good on D, our frontline players are sub par and we don’t do much on offense. That was exposed by a good team so we were blown out.