Interesting info in the Tom Murphy article from today. The Hogs are one of two teams (the other was unnamed) Wade and the LSU staff spent extra time studying in the off season. When discussing last year’s Hogs, Wade said, “I felt they got the best of us both times”, and “I thought they were a little better than us”. Also interesting was that he said, “We kind of had a pretty good formula against Mike Anderson when he was at Arkansas”.
This is how it should be for Hog basketball…… other teams spend extra time preparing for us.
Of course, it is nice to have a staff on our side that prepares this way for every opponent on the schedule.
What I saw was that they picked us up at 3/4 court every possession and didn’t allow us to run any offense, much less let us do what we do best, dribble drive and either score or get fouled. They took us out of our game.
Kind of like NBA games. I remember a lot of Lakers/Celtics games where the home team won in blow outs and lost blowouts away. I could see this flip flop in Fayetteville.