The LSU men’s basketball team began its allowed 10 days of practice for its 2019 exhibition basketball trip to Spain, Aug. 12-22.

Coach Will Wade discussed several topics at a late-morning media session regarding the trip, which is expected to include three-or-four games during the trip.

The Tigers will travel to the cities of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona and presently are scheduled to play All-Star teams in Madrid and Valencia with a game scheduled against the basketball grouping of FC Barcelona.

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COACH WILL WADE Opening Statement… “It has been a good summer. As far as Spain goes, we will have everybody available except for Marlon (Taylor). Marlon had surgery on his foot. He had a screw put in his foot, and it was something that he could have played through but we decided to bite the bullet now so he could be in as little pain as possible during the season

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On the competition the team will face in Spain… “Typically, we have four games scheduled and we usually play three or four as sometimes I will cancel the last game.

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Posted by BowDownToLSU

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Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:05 pm to BowDownToLSU

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On Southeastern transfer Parker Edwards… “He can shoot. He has not lost his shooting touch. He is a great kid and he is from the North Shore as he went to St. Paul’s. It was one of those deals where he enrolled in school here and he approached us and asked if he could walk on and we said ‘absolutely, we know who you are.’ He is a really smart player and he has been very good in practice and has really helped us out. He can definitely come in and make threes for us. He can really shoot it as you saw, as we all saw.”

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Posted by BowDownToLSU

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Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:06 pm to BowDownToLSU

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We are going to see how different guys react. I know what Javonte (Smart) and I know what Skylar (Mays) can do, so playing them 30 minutes a night will not do a whole lot for our team. I am much more interested in James Bishop to see if he can take the things he learned on the practice floor into a game. I am looking to see what Charles Manning can do. I want to see how Trendon (Watford) looks. How does (Darius) Days look as he just played spot minutes last year, as well as Emmitt (Williams) in a much more featured role? I am a lot more interested in Courtese Cooper, Aundre Hyatt and Marshall (Graves) and how they look. We will not play Skylar and Javonte more than 15 minutes a game because I know those guys can play and it is not the point of us going over there. We need to get these other guys major minutes and see how they react in different situations.”

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Posted by BowDownToLSU

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Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:07 pm to BowDownToLSU

There’s more in the article, I wish it was televised

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Posted on 7/31/19 at 2:09 pm to BowDownToLSU

Dammit I love Will

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Posted on 7/31/19 at 4:14 pm to Big4SALTbro

This caught my eye. I can't imagine any prior LSU coach talking about stuff like this:

“… We kind of wore down as the season went on and had some soft-tissue injuries because of nutrition and other things. In my time off I was able to study how the premier soccer teams in Europe train, how they stay fresh and how they recover. That is why I am very pleased with the results this summer. We tried it out this summer to see how it would work and I feel like we have put on much better weight that will be able to stay. We have put it on more incrementally than we have in the past and I think we are going to see long-term benefits down the way in the season."

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