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re: What do you think is the best LSU basketball team ever?

Posted on 7/8/19 at 11:21 pm to
Posted by ATCTx
Member since Nov 2016
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Posted on 7/8/19 at 11:21 pm to
I've seen all the teams AFTER the Pistol, and the 1981 Final Four team is the best. For several years, LSU lost to the eventual national champions.

The most fun to watch and gutsiest was the #11 seed 1986 team that battled its way to the Final Four in Dallas and was leading eventual champ Louisville at the half.

The most disappointing, not surprisingly, is the Chris/Shaq/Stanley team.

Chris Jackson is the best player I've ever seen at LSU.
This post was edited on 7/8/19 at 11:23 pm
Posted by sml71
Run if you hear banjos.
Member since Dec 2005
4474 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 5:29 am to
Beats me. I don’t think about basketball enough to have an opinion at any time of the year, much less on the cusp of football.
Posted by Rougarou4lsu
New Orleans
Member since Oct 2003
3101 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 2:15 pm to
1981, though Shaq does makes any argument debatable
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
37583 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 3:49 pm to
quote:

but still think the 2006 team was the best ever..


no one saw the 2006 team coming especially the emergence of Tyrus Thomas and the other freshmen

1981 was a known quantity, everyone knew what they faced with Macklin,the Cookie Monster,Ethan Martin as well as Willie Sims,Leonard "Swat" Mitchell and the leading scorer HiC Carter....if Dwayne Scales would have stayed they probably don't lose a game, because when Scales was on, the Tigers were open for business.
Posted by PocheBridge
Member since Apr 2018
12 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 5:30 pm to
81
Posted by Miketheseventh
Member since Dec 2017
7045 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 6:49 pm to
1981. Should have won it all that year
Posted by GOOTMAW
Member since Sep 2012
44 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 9:48 pm to
1980-81 - Ethan Martin, Howard Carter, Rudy Macklin, Leonard Mitchell, Willis Sims. Carter, Macklin, and Martin were on the all-century team.
Posted by Bengal Sporto
Metairie
Member since Dec 2014
661 posts
Posted on 7/10/19 at 12:47 pm to
Macklin didn’t play that year due to a broken foot
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