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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 4757397, member: 12088"] They all will be better than last season, except maybe LSU. But none of them were competitive with SC last season, and they aren't better enough to be competitive this season either. I think the situation wrt LSU is especially illustrative. Dawn lost the 'freshies' but she already had a top-5 ready team waiting on the bench. And she added Paopao, a genuine perimeter shooting threat -- the one thing she lacked last season. Her starting 5 (imho) could be Paopao, Raven, Kamila, Watkins, Hall, with Kitts, Feagin and Walker coming off the bench. By contrast, Kim lost her perimeter shooting and hasn't replaced it. Compared to SC, LSU will be undersized and slow. If I forecast Kim's starting 5 it is likely to be Angel, Hailey, Aneesah, Poole and Flaujae, with Poa, Williams and Smith coming off the bench. They'll give up a few inches at almost every position and the very same situation that doomed them against SC will still hold true. Here's an LSU-SC snapshot from last season that is likely to be repeated: in 34 mins, Angel scored 16 on 5-15 shooting and had 4 rebounds. Kamila scored 18 on 7-9 shooting and had 14 rebounds in only 21 mins. The only sort of bright spot was Morris who scored 23 on 11-29 shooting but had zero assists. In fact, LSU as a team only had 5 total assists. The matchup against Tennessee will be a little different -- more height in the post, but they'll lose every other matchup. It will be even worse for Ole Miss and A&M. They just won't have the backcourt or the bench to support the stars they have. Barker Rodgers and Coulibaly are for real, and Ware can give good rotation minutes as long as she doesn't foul out. But this will not be enough against SC. [/QUOTE]

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