re: Trent Johnson- What's so great about him?

Chitown - It's early in the season. LSU didn't play any exhibition games and it will show in the early part of the season. Chill out. John Brady is gone and Trent is an excellent floor coach and communicator. Please watch another game and your mind will change. Also, when a team goes 0-16 from the 3 point line, they always look bad so keep an open mind.

Trent is just playing the cards he was dealt right now. He turned a mediocre team into a second round NCAA team last year. He obviously can recruit just by looking at the class he signed last week. Once all his players are here, he'll be fine.

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It seems like everyone is thrilled with Trent Johnson as coach, and I just do not see what everyone is so excited about.

On offense, this year and last, there is no ball movement. Today against a team that couldn't rebound to save its life, it seemed as if half LSU's points came on putbacks.

I honestly couldn't tell the difference between this game vs ISU and the pickup games at the rec other than the players were taller.

Have they ever run a pick and roll? Spencer and Taz seem like a great combo to be running it. No instead players hold on to the ball for 5 seconds, then pass it off to someone else who holds on to the ball for 5 seconds before taking an ill advised shot. It's garbage basketball. Shouldn't Saint Trent run some sort of offense?

Last year when you had a shooter like Thornton, he could bail the team out when they did nothing on offense. But with mediocre talent on the floor (Green is terrible), having no remnants of organization on offense is going to take its course.

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Are you serious? Compared to John Brady, Trent Johnson is a great coach. Trent Johnson is still picking up the pieces from the debacle that was John Brady. If Trent Johnson was our coach the most recent final four year instead of Brady, we win the whole thing.

talked to a former player yesterday, and I asked him about Brady. He basically said that Brady was an absolute joke and that he and the rest of the players did not like him at all.

Oh, and this guy started for 4 years.

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talked to a former player yesterday, and I asked him about Brady. He basically said that Brady was an absolute joke and that he and the rest of the players did not like him at all.

Oh, and this guy started for 4 years.

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Antonio Hudson?

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He had four good freshmen signed in Dennis Harris, Delwan Graham, Storm Warren and Jmison Morgan. This was a top 20 class. Anthony Randolph was on the team. He had commitments from Tommy Mason Griffin and Brandon Mitchell for 2009. After Trent Johnwson was hired Randolph declared for the NBA, Morgan requested a release to go to UCLA and Mason-Griffin and Mitchell decommited.

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Randolph was probably going to the draft anyway, he was one of those upside players that doesn't do anything in college. Morgan has done little at UCLA and and idk about the other guys. Graham was a thug and was dismissed and Warren and Harris are decent players now.

So the Rantards are moving on to LSU basketball now. SEC Title in his first year. Yea,lets fire his arse before Thanksgiving of his second year.

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Brady left Trent an SEC championhip team which was healthy.

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No, Brady left a collection of players who did not play well as a team under his coaching. Johnson coached them into a team that won the SEC championship. There is a big difference in the two.

Under Brady it is doubtful that Bo Spencer would have become an effective point guard since Brady never developed an effective point guard during his tenure at LSU. And given Brady's substitution patterns it is doubtful that any of the players would have developed the confidence to take shots that Johnson let them take since those shots would have got them benched by Brady.