NWLATigerFan12

Off topic from the game at hand...but NBA killing me with the backstage interviews, showing players getting to arena, walking through the hallway awkwardly trying not to stare and the camera with the camera man right in front of them backpedaling. Except Tatum who gotta try to look cool like he's just smiling and singing some song everywhere he goes. :lol:

All of that straight out of the old WWE playbook. Used to always show the wrestlers getting to the building and walking down the halls and such :lol: :lol:

You and Poa have about the same amount of points scored this season too :lol:

She works hard on defense and I can appreciate that, but she brings absolutely nothing to the offense. No reason for her to ever play over Gilbert, Richard, Day-Wilson, or Sheppard at this point.

LSU guards:

Poa - 0/1 0 points
Flaujae - 1/8 3 points
Gilbert - 3/4 7 points
Day Wilson - 0/3 0 points
Williams - 8/20 17 points

27 points on 36 shots


NC State Guards:

Brooks - 9/21 21 points
Jones - 4/9 13 points
James - 3/9 12 points
Rivers - 3/10 9 points
Hayes - 2/6 8 points
Quigley - 0/2 0 points

63 points on 55 shots


Pretty crazy how overmatched our guards have been. Thank goodness Samyah and Morrow showed up. Hopefully we can pull it out

Inside shots taken:
LSU 56
NC St 31

Fouls
LSU 18
NC St 10

Free Throws
LSU 11
NC St 17


The team that is gonna shoot about 35 total 3s gets every call. The team that makes a living in the paint gets nothing. Sounds right.

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I thought American Airlines was pretty nice when I was last there but it’s been a few years. I guess that isn’t really relevant though

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Went there this season pre-trade, and I thought the arena was incredible. Inside of the arena, court area…it is what it is. I would imagine pretty much all the NBA arenas are gonna be pretty similar inside in this day and age. As many seats as possible stuffed in. I was towards the bottom of the upper deck and thought the view was still pretty damn good. But the concourses, bathrooms, concession areas, etc were what really got my attention… absolutely immaculate. Like being in a 5 star hotel.

Now this was my first arena to go to outside of the PMAC or smaller places like LaTech, Centurylink Center or whatever it’s called now in Shreveport, etc. But the nice-ness and quality of the building would blow away the PMAC, Super Dome, and any of the other smaller places I’ve been and it’s not particularly close. Hard to compare it to the many baseball parks and outdoor football stadiums I’ve been to as they’re outside…but definitely beats all of them too.

It seems like ever since Poa came back, the offense has been completely awful. And today we can't stop anybody either.

Texas has made big shot after big shot this quarter...We have had bad shots, missed open shots, turnovers. Heck we turned it over twice on inbounds plays, not even getting the pass off. Biggest statistical difference in this game...free throws.

Texas 21/21.
LSU 13/19.

I've always considered FT's and inbounds plays/special situations to be the "special teams" of basketball...Texas special teams won this game for them.



LSU is WAY behind both Texas and South Carolina in depth. You can't only have 3 players on your team score 3+ points in a big game. 3 vs 5 doesn't work. Both LSU and Texas had 3 players in double figures, but Texas had players with 7/7/5/4/2/2 along with them. LSU had 3/3/2/1

LSU offense hasn't had a good possession all quarter. Rushed bad shots and turnovers. TX getting great looks

23/24 - 70 games averaging 37.5 minutes per game plus 22 playoff games averaging 40.9 minutes per game.

22/23 - 66 games averaging 36.3 minutes per game.

21/22 - 65 games averaging 35.4 minutes per game plus 15 playoff games averaging 36.8 minutes per game.


So over the course of 3 years he has played 238 games and averaged over 36 minutes per game during that time.

Just a heads up, there's only 2 NBA players averaging over 36 minutes per game right now...Tyrese Maxey and Damian Lillard. Those players have missed 10 and 9 games this year, which puts them about on pace to play the same number of games (or less) compared to Luka the last three years.

So basically what I'm getting at, is Luka has been playing right there for the most minutes of any player in the league, while "not being in shape" and dragging some shitty rosters to wins the last three years. This year, they finally have the correct roster built around him, and he has the worst injury luck he's had his entire career. When healthy, he is a winner, and other than this month long injury he's currently missing for, he has pretty much played the same amount of or more games than all the other stars in the modern era while playing heavier minutes.

Today's arse whipping they are receiving is game 50 for the season.

Luka missed 28 games.
Lively missed 18 games.
Irving missed 11 games.
Washington missed 8 games.
Klay missed 7 games.
Gafford missed 3 games.

These 6 guys are the core of the team. This is basically your 5 starters, considering that Lively and Gafford have rotated who starts and almost split the minutes 50/50 when they are both available. They are 12-3 when these 6 are on the court.

Game 1 vs San Antonio (W)
Game 2 vs Phoenix (L)
Game 3 vs Utah (W)
Game 4 vs Minnesota (W)
Game 5 vs Houston (L)
Game 6 vs Orlando (W)
Game 14 vs San Antonio (W)
Game 16 vs New Orleans (W)
Game 22 vs Portland (W)
Game 23 vs Memphis (W)
Game 24 vs Washington (W)
Game 25 vs Toronto (W)
Game 27 vs Golden State (W)
Game 30 vs Portland (W)
Game 31 vs Minnesota (L) -- This is the game where Luka got hurt in the 2nd quarter on Christmas day and hasn't played since. They were 20-11 at the time. They are now 26-24 (6-13 since Luka has been out).


Not to mention that other role players have also missed a crazy amount of games...Exum 48, Kleber 18, Powell 17, Marshall 13, Hardy 11.


All Dallas had to do was be patient and let everybody get healthy again. The was a really, really good team and was put together almost perfectly to thrive around Luka and Kyrie. Luka gets hurt, team starts to snowball and suck for a month, management overreacts and makes one of the craziest trades of all time.

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