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I knew I would be the only one on this board who would want to drag LSU baseball into this thread the day after they won the championship. Yes, I am celebrating. But seriously, I have been thinking about how they did it. They lost much of last year's team though had a handful+ of really good players returning. However, most of their team was built from the #1 portal class and the #1Freshman class. Then I realized that my very favorite team, lady vol basketball, has almost an identical scenario in terms of the makeup of the team. A handful+ of talented returnees, #1 portal class, and the #2 Freshman class. The only difference was LSU baseball was not a top 16 team last year and the LVs were. In any case, this sounds like a winning recipe.
 
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KnoxLikeUs said:
Different🍊.
7 McDonald’s All-Americans. 6 4-stars. Elite former All-ACC scorer. #1 transfer portal and #1/#2 high school recruiting classes.
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As much as I enjoy seeing the shots drop, I have a tendency to focus on the defense being applied on the shooter. Just me. That they will be practicing against top defensive players is really encouraging.
 
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Good observation. I believe there is a detailed focus on improving the half-court one on one defense and making it a strength of this team.
Coach Caldwell has built a roster that can excel with elite level athleticism in every position with SEC caliber depth to go two deep with an extended rotation of 14 players. More importantly, all the players seem to be buying into CKC system which was always her naysayers main argument against the system working at a major P4 school like Tennessee. People still try to speak negatively about the substitution etc. but when anyone watches these practice sessions what you see is 7 McDonald’s AAs and 6 4-star players with their minds on a championship.
Each player I’ve seen in these highlights and over their career fit this system and CKC is elite in coaching, developing players, and implementing them into her system. I’m excited about this season.


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As much as I enjoy seeing the shots drop, I have a tendency to focus on the defense being applied on the shooter. Just me. That they will be practicing against top defensive players is really encouraging.
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As much as I enjoy seeing the shots drop, I have a tendency to focus on the defense being applied on the shooter. Just me. That they will be practicing against top defensive players is really encouraging.
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1750896170058.pngMya learning how small the "strip game" window is against bigs at this level.

I wonder if the coaches were calling out the matchups, or if, given the odd number of players, they're just letting the matchups randomly cycle through the drill?


@KnoxLikeUs Thanks. I even counted the roster to make sure -- and still miscounted!
Anybody need help with their taxes?
 
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The roster is an even number of 14 players.
Drills are usually next player up. Some players will tend to pair up against each other but the coaches in this case with a switching defensive man to man system would expect guards to defend posts and vice versa.
 
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Yeah, I'm guessing the Pauldos will be like nearly every other freshman and be a little gobsmacked by just how much bigger and stronger and faster so many college players are than high schoolers.

That said, nearly all the top high schoolers are getting opportunities to go against the biggest and strongest and fastest high schoolers in those all-star-type games/tournaments, so it's not like they haven't seen really good competition. But by the time most players are seniors in college they are WAY better and more mature in their games. Those are the ones that make freshmen eyes bulge during those first practices. They're like, "I only THOUGHT I was gonna sail right through this!"

I tell ya what, though. In just these few short snippets it looks promising that our freshmen won't be wallflowers. They have something special.
 
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