GeauxHoops wrote:Oliver wrote:Geaux, you guys are even more athletic than I realized, your bigs have good skill, plus a some outside shooters. I fully expect that team to make a strong run at the tournament next year based on how they looked tonight.
Yea, I am surprised yall were able to somewhat contain O'Bryant without double teaming. This is only the second game all year that a team didn't immediately double team JOB. In the first he went for 29 against Kentucky.
We probably didn't go down low enough to him, but overall Im happy with the way LSU played. Its tough bcause there arent a ton of LSU hoops fans and it's all Ill hear about for the next month... Still, if we had to lose to anyone Im glad it was y'all. By far the best team in the NIT>
My take is that once SMU forced the issue and turned the game into a basketball game instead of a game of streetball, JOB and LSU were basically out of it.
It's the biggest problem the SEC faces - lots of athleticism but not a lot of fundamentals. O'Bryant has a ton of natural talent and definitely improved his inside game this year but it took him 2 full seasons in college to decide to actually be a post player... his post game is at a freshman level, in my opinion, when it comes to fundamentals of the position. It's still far too easy to "force" him to settle for the mid range jumper when he should be using that big body to post people up and score from 2-3 feet instead of from 8-10 feet.
In the SEC that lack of development doesn't kill him... against a team where the post players are coached to be post players, he's just too far behind despite his natural, God given talent.
