Quote Originally Posted by Coach34 View Post
Righttttttt

Jones played Ray this year with wayyyy more talent
A better bench
in front of 2500 people- so there really wasn't a significant home court advantage

and lost
That was one of LSUs worst and sloppiest games of the year. LSU Shot 37% to our 44% but shot 17 more shots. We shot 36% from 3 to their 17%. We made 23 of 35 free throws to their 11 of 21.

For the season LSU shot 45.6% from the field and 34% from 3 point, so they clearly had an off game against us. In comparison, on the season we shot 43% from the field and 30.6% from 3.

Conclusion. We shot slightly better than our averages, against LSU, in this game while they shot well below their season average against us, yet only lost by 6. Nothing about any of this tells anyone that Ray is better than Jones at any aspect of basketball, coaching or recruiting. The win was a matter of circumstance and the circumstance was LSU being way off during that particular game.

The following game against TN we were once again unconsciously shooting the lights out. We shot 56% from the field to their 42%. We shot 73% from 3 to their 25%.

It required extremes away from one teams season average in both instances for us to come away with victory. That's why the remainder of the season we lost the majority of the games, because our offensive averages were some of the worst in the nation.