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re: The basketball team- early impressions
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:44 am to Alt26
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:44 am to Alt26
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Ugochukwu plays hard and can be a good defender, but his offense is limited. Clark has struggled early offensively.
I actually like what Ugochukwu does. He's not really an outside shooter, and it would be nice if he was, but he's very explosive and can get to the rim and finish in traffic, as well. We haven't seen a high volume of scoring from him, because we really haven't needed it, but he's a guy who I can see playing a big role in certain games with his particular skillset.
I'm not worried about Clark. His reputation is established. He's just in a shooting slump, but he'll come out of it. In the last exhibition he couldn't miss. Now he can barely make one. He'll settle in the middle, I'm quite confident.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 7:56 am to Metaloctopus
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I actually like what Ugochukwu does. He's not really an outside shooter, and it would be nice if he was, but he's very explosive and can get to the rim and finish in traffic, as well.
In transition, yes. In the halfcourt? TBD. It's very early, but LSU is playing at a really high pace. Better opponents are going to try to drag them out of that. Wade himself discussed last night how the halfcourt offense is a work in progress at the moment.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 8:21 am to Alt26
My limited watching so far...haven't watched both games entirely.
- no a lot of quality perimeter shooting
- need to make free throws
- centers: i love having a couple of big men, I'm excited about this. Ruzic moves so well for his size. Plus he runs the court well. How old is he?
- defense seems pretty good but TBD on that.
- no a lot of quality perimeter shooting
- need to make free throws
- centers: i love having a couple of big men, I'm excited about this. Ruzic moves so well for his size. Plus he runs the court well. How old is he?
- defense seems pretty good but TBD on that.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 8:23 am to jp4lsu
quote:LSU has played 3 games.
My limited watching so far...haven't watched both games entirely.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 8:35 am to CrewsMissile3
Up to #9 in the Evan Miya ratings; 2nd in the SEC behind Florida. These efficiency rankings have LSU #3 defensively behind only Duke and Florida (Offensive efficiency ranking #39).
Up to #27 in Kenpom.
LSU also jumped up to an 11-seed in Lunardi's bracketology released this morning.
Long story short. It's early but LSU is starting to make some noise. Beat or even keep it close vs Gonzaga and LSU will start getting a lot of attention.
Up to #27 in Kenpom.
LSU also jumped up to an 11-seed in Lunardi's bracketology released this morning.
Long story short. It's early but LSU is starting to make some noise. Beat or even keep it close vs Gonzaga and LSU will start getting a lot of attention.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 8:43 am to CrewsMissile3
I will also add that this team plays defense. Very scrappy in transition and avoids unnecessary fouls.
Posted on 11/10/26 at 8:45 am to Motorboat
Whats crazy about last night that while some more 3s and FTs went down for us, it was hardly a complete game from our end.
We turned the ball over 14 times, which Wade will be pissed at.
We allowed 16 offensive boards on 39 misses, which is over 40% offensive rebound rate for a short La Tech front court. Wade will be livid at that stat.
We also got outscored 21-8 the final ~8 minutes or so. Only a small part of that was from clearing the bench at end of game.
Despite all that, we dominated the first 3/4's of the game so much it still ended up a comfortable 40 point win.
If you told La Tech pre-game they'd turn us over 14 times and they would grab over 40% of their own misses; they probably thought they would have a pretty good shot in this game actually.
We turned the ball over 14 times, which Wade will be pissed at.
We allowed 16 offensive boards on 39 misses, which is over 40% offensive rebound rate for a short La Tech front court. Wade will be livid at that stat.
We also got outscored 21-8 the final ~8 minutes or so. Only a small part of that was from clearing the bench at end of game.
Despite all that, we dominated the first 3/4's of the game so much it still ended up a comfortable 40 point win.
If you told La Tech pre-game they'd turn us over 14 times and they would grab over 40% of their own misses; they probably thought they would have a pretty good shot in this game actually.
This post was edited on 11/10/26 at 8:46 am
Posted on 11/10/26 at 10:47 am to KamaCausey_LSU
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Up to #9 in the Evan Miya ratings
these ratings really do show LSU to a be a defensive juggernaut. (in small sample size)
all players are decent to good or very good on defense except Bashir.
dent has been a absolute juggernaut on both ends. playing defensively better even than niang who is an effort monster super athlete.
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