LSU got the exhibition win over Loyola (NO) on Tuesday night in the PMAC 110-48, getting to play all of their healthy and available players and getting to put on a show for LSU fans in attendance as a preview for the season ahead. A week from tip-off to begin the season, LSU is beginning to find it\u2019s identity and with this game behind them turns its attention to the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n
Noah Boyde continues to recover from the ACL injury he sustained in December of last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Derek Fountain<\/a><\/strong> and Tyrell Ward<\/a><\/strong> were out due to precautionary reasons.<\/p>\n For those wondering, I do not expect Boyde back until at earliest conference play as he recovers from the ACL injury. He\u2019s been active in practice outside of five-on-five though, which is encouraging. Fountain and Ward have been in and out of practices throughout the fall, so it\u2019s not alarming that they\u2019re out for the exhibition. Still, we\u2019ll monitor their situations entering the year.<\/p>\n LSU ended the game 18-of-37 from 3-point range\u00a0 with four players hitting multiple threes. Jordan Sears went 4-of-7, Cam Carter went 5-of-8, Mike Williams went 3-of-6, and Curtis Givens went 2-of-3 in the win. The Tigers got whatever looks they want, ending the game with 37 of their 70 shots coming from behind the arc, scoring 54 points from deep, 40 points in the paint, and 14 points from the free throw line, making for an efficient outing with only two points from non-paint twos.<\/p>\n LSU under Matt McMahon has been an efficient offense and looks to limit the amount of difficult shots and tonight was a prime example of what it would look like if LSU\u2019s offense could do whatever it wants. Sears is an elite shooter and Carter and Williams look the part of being over 35 percent this year as well.<\/p>\n LSU didn\u2019t even have Tyrell Ward, one of the best shooters in the SEC for this game and still had a great shooting game. The past two years, LSU was 133rd and 174th in 3-point attempt rate, but I expect that ranking to be significantly higher this year<\/p>\n \u201cI think [we\u2019re good taking that many], if they\u2019re high quality looks,\u201d McMahon said. \u201cWe were right around a 50-50 split. The selection was pretty good for the most part. Some of our young guys fired up an airball early, but then once they settled in knocked down some shots. We just want to get the highest quality shot we can get, whether that\u2019s penetration to the rim, Jalen Reed in the post, or extra pass threes, we want to take those and shoot them with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n I thought it was a good defensive performance, but not great. The first half was obviously strong, holding Loyola to 12 points while forcing 13 turnovers in the first 20 minutes. LSU was sharp with its rotations and had four blocks and eight steals in the first half.\u00a0<\/p>\n The second half was far more spotty which is to be expected in an exhibition when you\u2019re up 40 at halftime. Still, the overall activity dipped and Loyola had a ton of open looks, shooting 14-of-36 from the field with only six turnovers.<\/p>\n Ultimately, I think LSU\u2019s defense with Cam Carter, Dji Bailey, Daimion Collins, Mike Williams, and Corey Chest will be better than it was last year, but I still have some questions about Jordan Sears defending in the SEC and the overall ability for this team to unsettle teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019ll be nice to see them face a DI opponent next week so we can really get some clarity into this roster.<\/p>\n The post What we learned from LSU MBB\u2019s exhibition win on Tuesday night<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LSU got the exhibition win over Loyola (NO) on Tuesday night in the PMAC 110-48,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Three-point attempt rate<\/h2>\n
Defensive effort<\/h2>\n