re: Trent Johnsons record over the last three seasons (including today]

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Stromile took the Tigers to the Sweet 16 in Brady's third year. We were right back in 6th place the next year.

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What planet are you on, for Brady even to get a guy like Stromile to even come here was a miracle, not to mention signing Jabari also. He won the SEC in his third year on a five year probation, with hardly any scholarships. Not to mention going to the sweet sixteem. Stromile becomes a lottery pick and Jabari leaves and he has to start over with no schollies to offer. Five to ten years to rebuild a program is a joke, college bb today is a completely different enviroment than it used to be cause of the NBA. You don't rebuild programs signing guys like Eddie Ludwig and Chris Bass. In TJ's fourth year he finally has a couple of guys who can play but need a year or two. Getting blown out the gym like we did yesterday was a joke for a coach in his fourth year. TJ is responsible for the two worst years in LSU bb history and is close to last place again. Atleast every couple of years Brady gave us a chance. To compete at a high level and have a chance you need some guys who can play in the NBA, four years in we haven't seen a guy yet. JOB maybe. The days of building programs the way it was done in the 80's is OVER. The NBA took care of that. One things for sure Brady took us to the final four in 2006, we are so far removed from those days it is scarey

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with the expanded field I can almost guarantee there will be a few less talented teams that make the at-large field THIS year.

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Maybe so...can you name some. No shot, just want your opinion.

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There are players on this team. Hickey and Hamilton can ball,

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I agree Hickey and Hamilton can ball, good but not great college players.

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JOB is very talented

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He is but he came in out of shape and his development has been hindered because of it. He'll be much better next year IMHO. I'm seeing strides to him being more consistently better this year.

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Warren, Turner, and Stringer are all good enough for this level.

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I love Storm. He's a bit undersized but he plays hard enough to play at this level. Turner showed last year he could play but not this year. Don't know what his problem is. Stringer is pretty borderline IMHO.

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To not even be on the bubble with that amount of decent players is truly unbelievable.

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I tend to agree that we're good enough to be on the bubble. I don't think the best is being gotten out of the team to this point. I'm willing to let the season play out. Had some hope after competitive road games in Gainesville and at State, but pretty discouraged by the second half yesterday.

is Gathers a lock to come to LSU?
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Not a lock but LSU is certainly in it.





just looked it up Syracuse,St. Johns,Georgetown,Florida and Duke among others are recruiting him....I hope we aren't pinning TJ's future success on this kid...we talking Freaking Duke..I hope he comes here but come on

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I tend to agree that we're good enough to be on the bubble. I don't think the best is being gotten out of the team to this point.

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That's about where I'm at. The team doesn't have a wealth of talent, but there is enough there to be in the conversation for first five out/last five in. And that's not any sort of major accomplishment. That just means you're in the conversation as one of the best 50 or so teams in the country.

I think the caveat should be removed as far as gathers goes. There is tournament type talent on this team even if he doesn't come here. Morgan is going to be a good player. I'm looking forward to seeing him here.


There is a very good chance that my opinion on the talent on this team is greatly affected by my clinging to the hope that at some point the Turner that we saw last year will show back up. I just don't get it with him. If we were getting the same play he brought last year this team probably is in a position to start thinking NCAA's.

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If by "horrible" you mean "third in the SEC", then I agree with you.

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if you think we're a good rebounding team, you're lost. their idea of rebounding is standing still and hoping the ball comes their way. the only difference between this year and last year is taller players.

and don't act like 3rd in the sec is a big deal. the difference between 3rd and 10th is 2 rebounds per game.

Not sure who's at Morehead. Although you made me think that Brady's best years had Kermit on the bench and Treloar on the bench. No coincidence that we had really good seasons because bench coaching was so strong.

Haven't heard anything about Kermit since he's left LSU though.

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I think the caveat should be removed as far as gathers goes. There is tournament type talent on this team even if he doesn't come here. Morgan is going to be a good player. I'm looking forward to seeing him here.

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I'm not quite ready to do that. I think his athleticism and toughness is a missing ingredient. Turner and O'Bryant have brought much needed size but they still aren't anchoring things down low as much as their size might indicate they would and all the balls slipping from their grasps makes me pull my hair out.

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There is a very good chance that my opinion on the talent on this team is greatly affected by my clinging to the hope that at some point the Turner that we saw last year will show back up. I just don't get it with him. If we were getting the same play he brought last year this team probably is in a position to start thinking NCAA's.

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I think that's a good point. If Turner had built on last year and improved rather than regressed into the timid, confindenceless player he is right now I think we might have 2-3 more wins.

he is all over it good job trent

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We're 55th (out of 342 D1 teams) in the nation. I don't know what to tell you, bro. The numbers say that LSU is a pretty good rebounding team. "Guy on the internet" says they're terrible. It's a tough choice, but most people will go with the numbers.

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look dumbass have you watched any games or are you just going off of the rebounding ranking at the top of the lsu espn page? we're 55th because of offensive rebounds. have you not noticed how many times our big guys miss shots inside and get their own rebound? offensive rebounding stats get pretty inflated when you have big guys who can't finish inside. we do not block out at all. nationally we're ranked 140 in defensive rebounds per game. that sucks.

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Consider this, if another head coaching job opened in the SEC, would they go after TJ?

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Not a chance, In 2 of his four years he produced the worst teams in LSU bb history. He will have a hard time finding a job in a power conference.