This team is going to be fun to watch. Especially when Tack gets back and Mitchell can go back to SG.
Great clutch shooting by D-Mitch today...we need to watch those turnovers though because they almost cost us today. We're young and it showed at some points today, but we fought and came away with a great early season win. We shouldn't have anymore than 1 loss (possibly Houston or Ohio State) before we meet UConn in Hartford. I think we've got enough talent to hang with anybody in the country this year, but so much of it is young talent that there might be some growing pains like the turnovers today. It will be nice to get Tac back as he gives us one more scorer. I hope he has finally learned to play under some control though. Should be a fun year for LSU men's and women's basketball and it would be nice to sweep both conference titles as well as the football championship.
this team will really depend on tack. dmitch is no PG. look at the box score against WV, the few assists LSU had were from tmitch and davis--not good, and dmitch had 6 turnovers (too many for a Sr.) LSU does not have the talent to hang with the top teams. WV is forward heavy and we handled that well with our athleticism there, but teams with excellent guard play will bury lsu. if tasmin can become a consistent part of the O that will go a long way, but tack is still the key for the team (as are most PGs, i guess).
fyi West Virginia (2-2) has four seniors and a junior back from last season's Elite Eight team, which beat LSU in Baton Rouge. The only losses were to No. 2 Texas on a last-second shot and No. 8 Kentucky, 80-66, at the Guardians Classic.
Youth is a B**tch... Houston kills us again Of course, I hate to see my own worries turn out to be reality, but again we find a way to lose to Houston. This time on our own floor as soon as we get ranked. I was worried that Houston's style of play and athletes would bother us, and it did. Although, as I mentioned all along, this team is young and we're going to be seeing some ups and downs. Tiger fans will need to be patient. What this night shows us is, we have to solve the up tempo, trapping defenses sooner this season. We can't have another UAB kill us in the year. While DMitch has a good shooting night, he can't be asked to carry the load as PG. Too many turnovers and missed free throws kill us in a close one point loss where we led much of the game--which hurts. Hopefully this improves over the season and hopefully it improves with Tack coming back. I just wish that WE'D be the ones finding kids like Oliver Lafayette instead of Tom Penders. I mean why aren't John and Butch signing a kid like this instead of Kentrell Gransberry? This has got to become a point of emphasis for this staff... scouting and recruiting better guards. I just wish we'd keep Bobby Knight, Rick Barnes and now Tom Penders from coming in and taking good LA guards that LSU seems to miss ... did we just miss the boat on this kid? Baton Rouge, Capital High, 6-3 guard?
