re: This board told me after every game, WW was not a good X and O coach

WW was a top tier recruiter but not a top 25 coach. They rely on talent too much and I agree they look lost in a lot of games.

ISU is a pretty decent team though. They played a lot of really good teams and good coaches this year.
It might’ve been closer or maybe squeaked it out but we would’ve lost to Wisconsin in the second.

SW has gotten some pretty good coaches. We’ll be okay.

Rantards

Get to the sweet 16- “Wade had nothing to do with it.”

Lose to a crummy Iowa State team doing things the team hasn’t done all year- “Wade’s coaching caused it.”


These people are morons, 99.9% of them just started watching basketball in January, they’re not LSU basketball fans.

You got to love the Wade simps on here. They're almost as bad as the Daronte Jones simps. Hell, LSU fans would find anyway to defend PM's final years here when you saw a noticeable decline and he was done or Miles or Orgeron.

LSU fans love mediocrity as long as they like the guy coaching more than him actually winning. The obsession for their personality rather than results is baffling. Wade never would've got LSU anywhere even if he stayed. They never would sniff a final 4 with him as coach. He didn't have enough fundamental coaching development on his players to see that.

LSU fans are like stockholm victims for Johnny or Trent's days were so shitty they'd take any result. The program sucks. Plain and simple, it was been irrelevant except a few select years. Wade was an average coach it's just that LSU basketball was such a shitty program he looked great in comparison. He got them to the tournament which was his ceiling nothing more. If you wanted the next step it had to be someone else. Bite the bullet, take your losses for several years, then maybe you can take the next step with the right guy. Wade brought this on himself. He knows it, we know it, deal with it.

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That was his criticism this year, that while he could recruit, he can't coach the x and o of basketball.

That he looked lost. That he didn't have answers.

Yet, these same "fans" now want us to believe he would have figured out a way to win yesterday, a way to score more points (when our offense has been meh all season long)?

None of this makes any sense.

Can anyone make it make sense?

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Will Wade was not an ELITE X's and O's coach, but he was a DECENT one.
He had a solid packages of defenses this year, and a pretty good feel for when to use certain players for a certain tempo. Hard press to create chaos, softer press to tire out the other team, how to gum up a couple of the opposing teams plays (not all, but definitely could shut some things down).

He held Eason for instant offense once the game was going, he used Gaines to create mayhem on defense. Had a few plays for Days and Murray to get shots off (up to them to be consistent enough, which they weren't a lot of times). Had a few plays to get Reid the ball (again, up to Reid to try to assert himself, or not).

He seemed to use Fudge during the hard press, trying to speed up tempo; not while playing static defense. Fudge is a long body, but lost on assignments.

I can't say I've seen a lot of good offensive sets this year, but I WILL say we didn't seem to have Wilkinson as a focus on offense at all- Pinson, Eason and Gaines on isolation, Reid on the low post, Days on the low post or out at the wing for a 3, Murray on the wing or corner to shoot a 3 or to drive. Wilkinson, all year long, was basically "guard your man and stay away from the ball".
Wilkinson took at least 5 three-point shots... if that was Murray or Gaines at least a couple of the corner 3's go in.

I strongly believe if Wade was on the bench yesterday, LSU wins something like 73-58.
We would have tried to establish Days and Reid down low early, Eason would have come in to give us the spurt to take the halftime lead, Gaines would have shadowed that shooter from ISU after he made a couple.

It’s amazing how they have made him into a basketball god. He may cause severe penalties for the university yet these “LSU” don’t seem to care about that

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So winning the sec and going to the tournament essentially 5 years in a row, which lsu hadnt done in 30 years is mediocrity?

Wades gone and it is what it is, but straight up lying about his time here and why fans enjoyed his time here is pathetic and makes posters like this idiot look like fools.

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If we are going to cheat, we need to have better results than that.

Sorry.

Yes, you're absolutely correct. A mediocre coach that cheated so badly he used his own personal checks couldn't get LSU anywhere. At least other universities bought their championships. We got nothing and probably a death penalty to show for it.