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re: Why doesn't Louisiana produce great basketball players or coaches?
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:18 pm to Tom Bronco
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:18 pm to Tom Bronco
you’re naming extremely high population states and states who are fully obsessed with basketball
we are neither
we are neither
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Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:21 pm to SammyTiger
That's kind of my point although Tennessee and Georgia are not that far ahead of us in population.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 9:57 pm to Tom Bronco
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Tennessee and Georgia are not that far ahead of us in population.
LA - 4.6m
GA - 11.2m
TN - 7.2m
Seems pretty significant to me. Metro Atlanta by itself has nearly 2m more people than Louisiana.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:05 pm to Adam Banks
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Houston this season
Players and coaches from this year’s team with Louisiana ties
JA'VIER FRANCIS
MYLIK WILSON
JOSEPH TUGLER
L.J. CRYER
MERCY MILLER
HOLLIS PRICE
QUANNAS WHITE
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:09 pm to biggdogg
Cenac will be there next year too and he’s pretty impressive.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:27 pm to biggdogg
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Players and coaches from this year’s team with Louisiana ties
How many players were born in Louisiana and likely moved to Texas post Katrina? They may be from here, but they’ve called Texas home for almost all of their lives.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 10:41 pm to Demonbengal
Orlando Woolridge was from Mansfield.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:11 pm to Tom Bronco
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1. Texas 2. California 3. Indiana 4. Illinois 5. Georgia 6. Florida 7. New York 8. North Carolina 9. Maryland 10. Tennessee
So 9 of the largest states, and Indiana, where Basketball is like a quasi-religion like hockey to Canada.
Either we go back in time and get James Naismith hooked on crawfish, or Louisiana needs to grow by 15 million people.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:21 pm to BRUNNIN4
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Seems pretty significant to me. Metro Atlanta by itself has nearly 2m more people than Louisiana
Plus, basketball is MASSIVE in Memphis
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:25 pm to SaveFarris
And yet Maine with less population than Louisiana produced the number one player in College. All of you seem to have missed the GREAT part in my original post.
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:32 pm to Got Blaze
Bill Russell is from West Monroe, not Monroe
Posted on 4/9/25 at 11:34 pm to Madking
Wow you can make a hell of a team out of that list. Especially your Biggs.
Posted on 4/10/25 at 12:09 am to tiger109
Yep, more than enough guys to lay a foundation.
Posted on 4/10/25 at 12:47 am to Madking
You make this long list and don’t include Robert Sacre? Sacrilege!
Posted on 4/10/25 at 1:56 am to OU812
Bill Russell left LA at an early age and spent his school years in California, including two national championships at San Francisco. None of his basketball prowess had anything to do with Louisiana. Do you guys seriously want us to recruit mainly from Louisiana and not try to snag great players from other states and countries?
Posted on 4/10/25 at 2:02 am to LSUFanHouston
quote:Yes you are right, which only supports my point that it isn't here. Everyone has missed my main point which is that Louisiana high school basketball is not on par with a lot of other places. And for those that say it is only a matter of population then how do you explain the incredible number of great football players that we produce?
Plus, basketball is MASSIVE in Memphis
Posted on 4/10/25 at 5:36 am to Tom Bronco
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So our next basketball coach should not be a local product who emphasizes recruiting in state. We need someone who can get players from anywhere, including overseas
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Posted on 4/10/25 at 6:13 am to Adam Banks
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LSU has had poor scouting of the state going back several regimes.
Agreed
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Joseph Tugler on Houston this season lived in Monroe through 8th grade.
Houston had Rayvegas' own Mylik Wilson who played a huge role for them this season. Mylik went from ULL to Texas Tech to Houston. Never offered by LSU.
Posted on 4/10/25 at 6:47 am to Madking
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List is too long.. here
You da man!
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Why doesn't Louisiana produce great basketball players or coaches?
Posted on 4/10/25 at 7:40 am to LSUballs
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Houston had Rayvegas' own Mylik Wilson who played a huge role for them this season. Mylik went from ULL to Texas Tech to Houston. Never offered by LSU.
Well he was the 335 ranked player by 24/7 Composite coming out of high school.
The OP isn't as off-base as people are making him out to be. Louisiana high schools just have not been producing top 100-200 level players the past several years at any sort of regularity. On top of that, when they do have a premium player, they often lose them to an out of state developmental high school like Cenac going to Link Academy in Missouri. It's much harder to "keep" a local talent when they've already spent a year or more out of the state in HS.
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